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Panic disorder
* Panic Disorder can exist comorbidly with medical as well as other psychiatric disorders
  - condition in which persons experience sudden, severe attacks of anxiety
* Panic Disorder involves feeling very afraid all of a sudden, for no apparent reason
  - sudden, unexpected attacks of intense terror
* Panic Disorder is the experience of spontaneous panic attacks
  - fear of having a spontaneous panic attack
  - state in which a person feels severe fear and thinks the threat of death
  - triggers episodes of intense fear that strike without warning
* affects middle-aged and older adults as well.
* can also lead to depression and substance abuse
  - appear at any age, although it is more likely to begin in young adulthood
  - be distressing and disabling
  - coincide with asthma or be confused with it
  - last for a few months or for many years
  - lead to episodic hypertension
  - occur with or without agoraphobia being present
  - radically impair family, work, and social relationships
  - restrict what people do
* common and treatable disorder.
* fits well into the medical model, including diagnosis, treatment and prognosis.
* involve recurrent attacks of panic or anxiety.
  * ' is an anxiety disorder involving panic attacks. In addition, big changes in behavior might happen in at least one month, and the person might keep worrying about having other attacks. Panic disorder serious condition that can happen at any age. It can be treated with psychotherapy and antidepressants.
* involves ongoing random panic attacks.
* involves sudden, intense and unprovoked feelings of terror and dread
* is about anxiety
  - an anxiety disorder that runs in families, and probably is genetic
  - another type of anxiety
* is characterized by recurrent panic attacks
  - sudden rushes of intense anxiety
  - chronic, though, and patients often relapse if treatment is stopped
  - common in primary care
  - different from a panic attack
  - highly treatable, with a variety of available therapies
  - less common, but usually more serious, than phobias
  - marked by repeated panic attacks without apparent cause
  - more common among women than men
  - one of the most curable mental health problems in today's society
  - probably the best studied and understood of the anxiety disorders
  - quite responsive to specific treatment procedures
* is the fear of having a spontaneous panic attack
  - nervous systems flashing danger signals at inappropriate times
  - twice as common in women as in men
  - two to three times more prevalent among women
  - usually chronic and tends to be a reaction to stress
  - very different from everyday anxiety
* lifelong illness which waxes and wanes.
* major source of visits to hospital emergency rooms or to the physician's office.
* makes people panic suddenly, without cause.
* occurs suddenly and can happen at any time.
* real condition involving serious attacks that seem to occur for no reason
  - illness and it has to be treated
* real, treatable illness.
* strikes twice as many women as men.
* tends to continue for months or years
  - run in families, suggesting a biological component to the disorder
* type of anxiety disorder
* very common and very disabling problem.