Panic attacks are relatively brief periods of extreme stress, anxiety and fear, usually involving both physical and mental symptoms.
When diagnosing the cause of panic attacks, doctors will often seek to identify an underlying anxiety disorder – such as panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, or general anxiety disorder.
But sometimes, the answer actually lies [...]

Citalopram is an SSRI (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor) which is primarily prescribed for the treatment of major depression, but also increasingly for the treatment certain anxiety disorders.
Over the last couple of years there has been increasing concern over the alarming side-effects of Citalopram – panic attacks and extreme anxiety being the most commonly reported.
If you [...]

There’s a lot of confusion surrounding panic attacks, hypoglycemia and whether a particular person is suffering from one or the other – or both.  It’s extremely important that you identify what is really happening in your body, so you can properly deal with the problem.
So let’s take a closer look.
Panic attacks are episodes of intense [...]

Panic attacks are a serious health problem - and at least 20% of adult Americans (around 60 million people) will experience them at some stage in their lives.
Of those 60 million adult Americans, around 3 million will develop full-scale panic disorder at some point.
But are the symptoms of panic attacks in women different to those [...]

We’ve recently had a number of emails asking whether anxiety sufferers should use acupuncture for panic attacks.
So we thought we’d better take a closer look at this form of alternative medicine, and whether it actually works or not.
What is acupuncture exactly?
Acupuncture is one of the most popular forms of Chinese alternative medicine.  It involves the [...]

Bringing a child into the world - particularly for the first time - can be very stressful.
All new mothers experience a certain level of anxiety as they try to cope with all the extra pressure of looking after their newborn, worrying about whether they’re doing the right things.
But sometimes that anxiety goes beyond simple stress, [...]