Comments on: Learn The Warning Signs of Stroke http://www.strokeofpanic.com/learn-the-warning-signs-of-stroke Is this a stroke? Is this a heart attack? Or maybe it is a panic attack??? Sun, 21 Nov 2010 20:05:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: amit khandelwal http://www.strokeofpanic.com/learn-the-warning-signs-of-stroke/comment-page-1#comment-196 amit khandelwal Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:42:08 +0000 http://www.strokeofpanic.com/?p=9#comment-196 Like depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder, this may be another condition in which stimulatory pathways are out of balance with inhibitory pathways. Although pathology is caused by an imbalance of opposing stimulatory and inhibitory pathways, overactivity of a stimulatory center (as seen in a complex partial seizure disorder) is a less common cause of pathology. More commonly, there appears to be a failure of normal inhibitory (or feedback/counter-regulatory) control. Panic is triggered by a perception of imminent harm. There is a rapid acceleration of the alarm reaction. Thus, individuals with the illness of panic disorder find this pathway triggered too readily by events that may not warrant such a level of alarm. The counter regulating mechanisms fail to dampen the speed of acceleration of the alarm reaction. Any fear can potentially trigger a panic attack in a sensitized individual. Once someone experiences panic attacks, there is then fear of the cues associated with triggering the panic attack, as well as a fear of the attack itself. Once fear is triggered in a susceptible individual, they are increasingly sensitized to the fear and the vicious cycle of fear, which ensues. This process occurs in multiple systems simultaneously. The fear of the panic attack or the fear of the fear is often greater than the fear of the cues, which are associated with triggering the attack. Like depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder, this may be another condition in which stimulatory pathways are out of balance with inhibitory pathways. Although pathology is caused by an imbalance of opposing stimulatory and inhibitory pathways, overactivity of a stimulatory center (as seen in a complex partial seizure disorder) is a less common cause of pathology. More commonly, there appears to be a failure of normal inhibitory (or feedback/counter-regulatory) control.

Panic is triggered by a perception of imminent harm. There is a rapid acceleration of the alarm reaction. Thus, individuals with the illness of panic disorder find this pathway triggered too readily by events that may not warrant such a level of alarm. The counter regulating mechanisms fail to dampen the speed of acceleration of the alarm reaction. Any fear can potentially trigger a panic attack in a sensitized individual. Once someone experiences panic attacks, there is then fear of the cues associated with triggering the panic attack, as well as a fear of the attack itself. Once fear is triggered in a susceptible individual, they are increasingly sensitized to the fear and the vicious cycle of fear, which ensues. This process occurs in multiple systems simultaneously. The fear of the panic attack or the fear of the fear is often greater than the fear of the cues, which are associated with triggering the attack.

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