Do You Need To Choose Panic Pills? – 3 Reasons For and Against Using Panic Medication
Let me describe to you some important issues related to dealing with panic attacks. I have written articles on dealing with panic attacks and how the physical symptoms of panic attacks, such as chest pains, breathlessness, or dizziness, can cause people really worry for quite some time. It is unsurprising, therefore, that the first plan action often involves seeing your physician. This is certainly the case if you already have some physical ailment, such as heart or lung problems. However, visiting your physician just to receive a “quick-fix” recipe of panic pills or panic tablets may not be the best idea. Let me describe to you what I feel are the main pros and cons of using panic medication.
So how to stop panic attacks then? A crucial aspect to fully be aware of when learning how to stop panic attacks is that panic attacks are not a physical ailment as such, but are much more related to your mind. Of course I’m not saying you have an automatic mental illness, but it has been well described now that symptoms of panic attacks are actually not dangerous. Yes they are nasty, upsetting, a pain in the neck, but still not dangerous. Thus you need to learn to really start paying attention to what your personal beliefs are about your panic symptoms. Having said that, the panic can be so bad that you might feel you have no choice, you simply need to go see a doctor and get medication. So when are panic tablets a good idea?
Allow me to describe when I feel you might well need them:
1. If your current life is regular, if not totally disrupted because of panic symptoms, to the extent that you don’t function normally any longer. For example, you just cannot go to, or function at work, or the quality of your relationships is going down, or you just seem to be avoiding situations or places for fear of panic, and where this avoidance makes your life a lot harder.
2. If quite some time has passed you did not yet overcome panic attacks with other help, such as from controlled breathing techniques, distraction, counselling etc.
3. If your panic attacks are in fact linked to another condition you might have, and which needs medication.
Of course you could not just look at the situations I described above and if none of them are the case for you, then perhaps panic pills are not the solution. Yet, I want to add 3 extra and important reasons for avoiding panic tablets.
1. If the disturbance of by panic attacks symptoms is low and is also unlikely to get worse in your opinion (your opinion counts here!)
2. If you feel a temptation for a quick-fix solution, but realize within yourself that panic can only really be solved by psychological strategies.
3. If you have a history of dependency on medication (if not addiction).
If you do decide to go ahead with “panic pills”, then please make sure you understand if this has any negative effect on other medication you are currently taking. Also, be aware that you could be taking panic tablets for quite some time, and not everybody is comfortable with that.
In general though, it really is important to be aware that your first resort solution to get rid of panic attacks shouldn’t always be panic pills, as overcoming panic attacks long term is not likely to be achieved by medication alone. It will help you get rid of panic attacks better perhaps, and also, in might make it more possible for you to use psychological treatment.
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