Bipolarity and Panic Attacks

The gripping effects of bipolarity, which causes an imbalance of mental and emotional stability, can grow even worse when plagued by all the problems of acute anxiety.

Much research has gone into the connection between panic acute anxiety, spurred on by such diseases as bipolarity, and panic attacks, which are generally thought to be the product of extreme anxiety, although no conclusive results have been established suggesting that there is a common underlying biological dysfunction.

Whatever the case, the result is the same: an overwhelming sense of fear that can cause an otherwise perfectly healthy individual to shun society and the world around them. In a word, someone suffering from bipolarity and panic attacks can become virtually incapacitated, not only unable to function in the world, but, worse yet, trapped in the confines of an ever-destructive disease.

Many people who suffer from bipolarity have reported usual amounts of anxiety, leading them to experience syndromes similar to that which someone having a panic attack might feel. For example, these people have all described feeling, at times, an overwhelming sense of depression, confusion, obsession, compulsion, sleep disorders, and other behaviors typically not associated with those of steady mental health.

Many, furthermore, are dependent on drugs in order to keep these problems in check, but many of these same sufferers also state that these drugs gradually lose their potency and, after a while, cease being effective. Because of this, many doctors change up the medications that they proscribe in order to make sure that a person’s mind and body do not get acclimated to this drug. Doing this enables them to keep one step ahead of the disease and not, as it used to be, let the disease overtake the individual.

Of course, changing up an individual’s medications can have a lot of side effects, including, although not limited to, increased depression and, in the worse case scenario, suicide. But, doctors argue, this is very rare, and the overwhelming amount of people who suffer from bipolarity and the panic attacks that are triggered are able to leave normal lives.

Still, there is a sliver of people who never recover, regardless of the drugs that are administered to them. Unsure of why this is, doctors routinely subject these people to various tests, hoping to understand why they are immune to remedies that have otherwise proven successful on many others.

One possible reason that has been bantered around the scientific community deals with the fact that these people are not really bipolar at all, but instead have some other disease that is replicating symptoms generally associated with bipolarity. Of these symptoms, many occur that are similar to symptoms displayed during panic attacks; the only difference, but a fundamental difference, deals with the lack of mental equilibrium that is more consistently and more persistently shown.

People suffering from panic attacks generally do not display long periods of mental imbalance, though people with bipolarity do. As a result of this confusion, there remain a number of people who still suffer on a daily basis and who may never be cured.

In the end, however, understanding bipolarity, as well as its symptoms, can help understand extreme anxiety, which, in turn, can help understand panic attacks. Doctors have found a link between the three. The hard part is trying to disrupt the link so that people no longer have to suffer.