Depression

The definition of a panic attack is an intense and sudden feeling of related to physical signs such as chest pain, dizziness, shaking and shortness of breath, feeling hot or cold, sweating, and nausea-in short, the signs brought on by adrenaline release in a fight-or-flight response. While this disorder is believed to be relatively rare in the elderly population, it might be that the disorder is difficult to analyze because elderly people and their doctors attribute such bodily symptoms to cardiac, respiratory, or different medical conditions. This misattribution has been shown earlier in this entry with different types of anxiety disorders as well.

As a graduate scholar at Florida State College, Richard Heimberg, PhD, was interested by the results of people’s intense social nervousness on their interactions. However, in the 1970s, no identify existed for any such nervousness, and Heimberg states many individuals wrote it off as shyness or a persona trait.

‘Regular’ social anxiousness is familiar to most of us as a pervading sense of apprehension. Many individuals have specific fears about social settings like public speaking or speaking to authority figures, or expertise more general emotions of shyness or a lack of confidence.