What causes detachment from reality during a panic attack?
- Thursday Nov 26,2009 04:00 PM
- By diddy
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When i have a panic attack…among other symptoms, I feel like i am going to lose control of my self and i start to feel like things are not real.
What exactly causes you to feel detached from reality?
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To explain it fully would take pages.. but this is the short version. In a panic attack your body is setting itself up to run away as fast as it possibly can, or to fight to the death. Your body believes it is under attack and the adrenaline and all that kind of stuff is ready for immediate action. Among those conditions that are created is the feeling of being detached. Because you need to shed all distractions and be able to focus 100% on the ‘danger’. So your mind takes you to the place of a prey animal. That is why an animal in a trap will have a glazed over look.. it is in that same place of having reality suspended so that it can fight with little pain and all of its power to get away. I survived six yrs of panic attacks and came out a much healthier and stronger person, so take hope. And I never had to do therapy or take drugs to get alright, so hang in there.
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