Panic Recovery

When panic attacks happen, the reactions are fast and short heart rate, fast breathing, sweating, and may feel like your heart is going a million miles a minute. This is caused by the sudden feeling of anxiety or when you worry too much about having panic attacks and change how you live your life to try not to have panic attacks. Anyone can experience panic attacks, which are most common in women and occur in the teenage years going into early adulthood. Panic attack likelihood increases if you have mental health issues, family members with anxiety disorders, and alcohol or drug problems. The symptoms of panic attacks are chest pain, difficulty breathing, racing heart, sweating, numbness, or shaking. These symptoms are the worst in 10 minutes after this starts and will disappear after it has completely gone away. Cognitive behavioral therapy, anti-depressant meds, and anxiety meds help when panic attacks become an everyday part of your life. Panic attacks are prevented by living healthy life habits, but if it is treated soon, they will help you improve your life (Cleveland Clinic).

After someone struggles with a mental health illness, their goal is to somewhat or fully recover from it. Recovery varies from person to person, but the goal is to be symptom-free, which may be a short-term or long-term recovery. When they are in recovery mode they often need support from loved ones or mental health workers. The recovery model emphasizes the importance of strengthening the identity of who someone is and building more self-esteem. Two types of recovery can take place, they are clinical recovery and personal recovery. Clinical recovery involves health professionals helping you reach your goals and help you become more confident. Personal recovery can mean multiple things to different people, but its goal is how you can get your life back on track. The steps that can be taken are thinking more positively, better social life, control in your emotions, and having healthy family and friendship relationships. Recovery can happen when you have the tools needed to support you throughout your whole experience (“Recovery”).

A 2010 study done by “The American Freshman: National Norms Fall 2010” saw the number of students rating themselves below average in emotional health significantly increased. Many campus counselors saw how students were depressed, stressed out, and used medicine to relieve any of that. According to Brian Van Bun, “More students are arriving at campus with problems, needing support, and today’s economic factors are putting a lot of extra stress on college students…” Many people believe that emotional health is the same thing as mental health, but it isn’t. Emotional health is more focused on how we are thinking and feeling emotionally most of the time. The amount of stress that students have is before school starts because they feel overwhelmed with what their career is going to look like. A big factor in how men and women relieve any issues is that women are more likely to take on bigger roles and responsibilities, while men do more physical activities to relieve any issues. Positive interactions with teachers help those who struggle, but negative interactions don’t (Lewin).