How to prepare for their summer vacation frees Panic
If you’re like many Americans, is considering or preparing to take a summer vacation. It sounds very exciting … Aruba, a trip across country, or a short trip to the coast during the night!
What is exciting for the community free of panic can be agony of a victim of panic. Why?
The core fear is being trapped Far Security
Whether you are traveling on a cruise, airplane, driving on the road, train or bus, the central fear of panic disorder is to be caught far from being a safe place. If you’re like many victims of panic attack, you may have been based on the avoidance or escape to a place of safety perceived as their method of relief of panic.
Now, every time your escape route is blocked, the fear of anxiety rears its ugly head. Thinking ahead to the possibility of panic and the idea of rupture and lose their heads or who need immediate medical attention when they are away from home, hospital or helping a family member, can be terrifying.
Here are four key triggers panic trips you may fear for your next vacation
1) Waiting on the dock to board the cruise
2) Wait to board their flight for their turn to take off
3) Brake lights on the road with no end in sight while driving in the passing lane
4) A sign on the road … “Next 50 miles Hospital”
Imagine experiencing a medical emergency threatening the life in a Mediterranean cruise, while far from the safety of home, hospital, family doctor, friends or family can be painful, to say the least. Many of my patients have been scared long before a trip that they have fabricated a series of excuses to cancel or shorten the trip. Naturally, the sudden change in travel plans can create major conflicts in family and marital relations.
5 Travel Tips to create a panic-free holiday
1. Instead of fearing the return of panic symptoms such as dizziness, palpitations, shortness of breath while on vacation, preparing for a meeting ahead of the positive symptoms.
2. Convince yourself that your symptoms are intensified normal natural feeling of adrenaline, is no different to the feelings you may experience a roller coaster.
3. Challenge false scary thought patterns (egg, heart disease). For example, “Cruise ships do not cause heart disease.”
4. Do not resist or try to get rid of their symptoms or hope will happen.
5. Ride the wave of panic feelings without fear, no matter how strong you feel symptoms.
* This educational information should be used in consultation with your doctor to confirm a diagnosis and to review the available treatments for panic disorder.
About Dr. Stephen Blumberg:
Dr. Blumberg received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida and completed an internship in Behavioral Medicine, Department of Medical Psychology at the University Of Oregon Medical School. Dr. Blumberg received a Certificate in Behavior Therapy from Temple University School of Medicine and is a licensed psychologist in Florida, Massachusetts and New York. Member of the American Psychological Association, Florida Psychological Association, and is listed on the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology.
Dr. Blumberg’s extensive experience in the field of Behavioral Medicine program of panic, anxiety and stress disorders has led him across the U.S. in a variety of challenging roles.
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