oh really...

[Fredscars]

from an SP site..
Also, contrary to current psychiatric/psychological nomenclature, people with social anxiety do not have "panic attacks". They experience extreme anxiety in social settings where they fear they will have to perform or be on display. It is not uncommon for socially-anxious people to use the terminology "I panicked". Again, however, the distinction here is that the person is not talking about the sensations leading to a physical pain or condition. They are referring to a very high level of anxiety and the adrenaline rush that accompanies it.

so supposedly we dont suffer from panick attacks..i wonder what they would call what i have then...

 

[Remus]

that sounds like crap

remember...not everything on the net is the truth

I treat it more like a newspaper than a factual tool

 

[Fredscars]

yeah i know. but this was off a suposed medical site. pfshaaa

 

[Crimefish]

"People with panic disorder suffer from panic attacks. People with SA suffer from anxiety attacks."--Dr Richards (whose opinion I don't care about.)
I always thought they were the same thing. Oh well.

 

[Remus]

I have both

do I win a prize?

 

[Crimefish]

Yeah, but Remus, do you have both panic attacks and anxiety attacks? Do you have two distinguishable types of attack or do they both feel the same to you?
And yes. You win these two rather lovely disorders. *shakes hand, kisses cheek*

 

[Fredscars]

well, when im having one il be sure to write it all down and film it and send it off for evaluation cos then next time i have one i can be proud to say 'im having an anxiety attack' rather than a 'panick attack'
:lol:

 

[dan246]

It's common for the medical community to try and separate individual disorders as to provide a systematic approach to treating these problems. A good doctor will recognize that a lot of these labeled categories overlap and are more frequent in combinations than they are separately. I've had one major panic attack in my life and even though I suffer from social phobia, my physical response does not quite meet the panic (or anxiety) attack standard. I'm not saying people with social phobia do not experience panic attacks. But from a doctor’s point of view, having panic attacks is usually labeled as a 'panic disorder' rather than just social anxiety. One symptom of a 'panic disorder' is acrophobia or avoiding situations associated with panic attacks. So the overlap begins to appear. A good doctor won't lump patients into these specific categories, rather they will find which symptoms the patient experiences from each of these 'different' disorders and treat them accordingly. It's wrong for a doctor to say "people with social anxiety do not have panic attacks." That is a generalization. It seems very common for people with social phobia to have panic attacks. I guess my point is, a lot of doctors would not consider panic attacks a symptom of social phobia. It seems to me this is just for simplification purposes and this does not mean that sp sufferers don’t have panic attacks. As for that lame distinction between anxiety and panic attacks, I don’t think that is correct. When I went to see a specialist on anxiety he used the two interchangeably. That’s just my two cents. I’m not a doctor and have no idea what they are really thinking and trying to say but that’s the sense I tried to make of it.