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Causes of Panic Attacks

Below are the common causes of that bring about the symptoms of panic attacks:

• Long-term causes – Heredity. Inheritance does play a vital role in deciding who will have panic disorder, since it has been found to have the capability of being passed along in families. However, many people still do develop panic disorder even though their is no family history of it. Nurturing aspects on children such as an ‘excessively cautious outlook’ on the world demonstrated by parents, as well as, constant stress on thing like punctuality/perfectionism have also been seen to be reasons for panic attacks.
• Phobias – People’s exposure to a phobic situation or project may directly result in panic attacks.
• Biological causes – For instance, “obsessive compulsive disorder”, hypoglycemia, “post traumatic stress disorder”, Wilson’s disease, hyperthyroidism, pheochromocytoma, “mitral valve prolapse” and labyrinthitis or internal ear troubles can be causes for panic attacks.
• Deficiency of Vitamin B either caused by poor diet or by a periodic reduction in food intake as a result of a parasitical contagion from tapeworm may also cause anxiety attacks.
• Momentary causes – major personal loss, life transitions, and momentous life changes
• Absence of assertiveness – Evidence shows that those who experience panic attacks normally follow a passive way of interactions or communication with others. Though courteous and respectful, this mode of communication is typically unassertive. Communication in an unassertive manner appears to trigger panic attacks.
• Maintaining causes – Evasion of panic provoking environments or states, negative or anxious self-talk or ‘what-if thinking’, withheld feelings, false beliefs such as “these symptoms are dangerous or harmful” etc.
• Situational connected panic attacks – This is a type of classic conditioning when you relate certain situations as panic attack causing situations. Because of this conditioning you can develop a behavioral or cognitive tendency for having these attacks in very specific situations.
• Hyperventilation syndrome – Breathing through the chest can cause ‘over breathing’. Hyperventilation syndrome may cause hypocapnia and respiratory alkalosis. It frequently includes mouth breathing too. This can cause a group of symptoms such as fast heart beat, light headedness, and dizziness which also prompt panic attacks.
• Chronic and/or severe illness – Cardiac conditions which causes unexpected death, for instance, Long QT syndrome; Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome or CPVT may cause panic attacks as well.

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