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Panic disorder is one of the anxiety disorders that produces more disability.
Panic is usually associated with avoidance behaviors of activities and situations, which can reach criteria of agoraphobia. Those who suffer from a panic disorder that has not been adequately treated or that has been misdiagnosed (which happens quite frequently), the belief that they suffer from a life-threatening illness can cause chronic and debilitating anxiety and lead to excessive visits to the assistance centers. Other undesirable consequences that usually derive from panic are the deterioration in social and occupational functioning, low self-esteem, hypochondriac attitudes, alcohol abuse or anxiolytics, and even the increase in premature deaths.
Research based on psychological theories has broadened the understanding of this disorder and has allowed the development of effective psychological treatments for panic. Effective psychological treatments are based on the observation that what the patient fears with panic are the internal sensations.
Once this phobic stimulus was detected, psychological treatment became possible: through exposure to it and / or through cognitive techniques that led to a re-evaluation of the supposed danger that those sensations would entail.
In turn, the effectiveness of various treatments, both pharmacological and psychological, with which a complete elimination of symptoms is achieved in the majority of patients.
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