Who suffers from Panic Attacks?

Panic attacks are experienced by anxiety disorder sufferers. Anxiety is the underlying cause of panic attacks.

Some people, although not many, can experience a single panic attack and never experience one again.

Panic attacks are not hereditary. There is some evidence that panic attacks can develop in an anxious environment, but generally panic attack sufferers develop the disorder in isolation.

anxiety is a behavioural condition, so simply being around others with panic attacks or high anxiety could affect the speed of development of a similar condition.

Panic attacks can develop in people of any age or sex but generally, panic attacks develop in late teens or early adulthood. There also seems to be a surge later in life, for example, during periods of life-change such as retirement or loss of a loved one.

Panic Attacks and Children

Children as young as five years old have been successfully treated at The Linden Centres.

Often, children approaching adulthood who are becoming aware of their position in the world (and society) and are developing awareness of their own mortality, can become inappropriately anxious, causing panic attacks.

Children are very resilient and at such an early age when they tend to 'soak up' information like a sponge, modifying behaviours to undermine and eliminate inappropriate anxiety and panic attacks seems to be a much simpler process.

Panic Attacks and the Elderly

Sometimes treatment of elderly people can be hindered by their lack of physical ability, however, with time and patience, total anxiety and panic attack elimination is possible.

Statistics show that approximately one in four people will experience an extended period of anxiety accompanied by OCD, panic attacks and/or phobias at some point in their lives.

The development of anxiety is usually the result of bereavement, stress or other life worries, however, regardless of the 'catalyst' for the initial anxiety, it is entirely possible to quickly eliminate anxiety and move on free.

The speed at which human emotional evolution has had to develop in the last century to cope with massively increased life-stress is vastly disproportionate to the time it has taken. The human body has evolved over millennia but, emotionally-speaking, we are still in the last century.

This alone has given rise to the dramatic increase and epidemic proportions of anxiety disorder, worldwide.