Symptomatic-adrenal crisis occurs suddenly, without any precursors. As a rule, it is accompanied by a sensation of pulsation and severe pain in the head, rhythm disturbance (sometimes pain) of the heart, trembling (tremors in the form of chills) and numbness of the extremities, feelings of anxiety, panic, fear, fever and blood pressure. In the blood, the level of glucose and leukocytes rises sharply. The sympatho-adrenal crisis ends, just as it starts, all of a sudden. A large volume of light urine is released. Subsequently, the patient has an asthenic state (a state of powerlessness, weakness, chronic fatigue). Symptom-adrenal crisis in symptoms, causes, course and treatment is quite similar to hypertensive crisis.
A panic attack is most accurately characterized by a sudden fear or physiological discomfort. This is due to the release of adrenaline in the blood in a huge amount. In this case, an overdose of the body with this substance occurs, and sympatho-adrenal crises occur. The treatment of such manifestations is currently quite effective. This also applies to cases where the patient, having experienced unpleasant symptoms and being under their influence, causes relapses of this condition on his own. It should be noted that all manifestations of this condition relate only to the person himself and his state of health, as they are the results of the body’s struggle with sudden chemical processes. The most unpleasant sensation that accompanies the sympatho-adrenal crisis is a sudden panic or fear, while the feeling of confidence in the environment and the feeling of security disappear.
Panic attacks against a background of neurosis with a disturbance of the functions of the nervous autonomic system can occur due to an erroneous command from the brain to the adrenal glands that secrete excess adrenaline.
There are also a number of psychological reasons for a panic attack. As practice shows, the main ones are severe stresses and psychological trauma, suppressed by a person by willpower, and severe fear and experience, crowded out into the subconscious.
Episodes of panic attacks accompany such diseases as: phobias of various kinds, drug or alcohol prohibition syndrome, depression and others.
For patients who have a recurrent sympathetic-adrenal crisis, treatment should be comprehensive - aimed at eliminating the psychological cause in combination with medications that affect the reduction of adrenaline.
Panic attacks are largely affected by people who, with their willpower, did not allow themselves to experience joy, grief, or excitement to the end. Thus, unexperienced emotions hidden deep in the subconscious mind suddenly manifest themselves in a state of panic. As practice shows, the treatment of panic conditions is quite successful. The willpower of the patient is of great importance in this. With her help, the psychotherapist has the opportunity to eliminate the cause of the panic disorder.
Modern psychotherapeutic clinics have a full range of diagnostic and therapeutic methods. A competent doctor will select the necessary antidepressant aimed at relieving acute manifestations of the disease. So, for a sharp decrease in the intensity of the manifestation of symptoms, benzodiazepines are prescribed, for the prevention of attacks, it is preferable to prescribe drugs with a slow onset of action. The effect is also observed from taking a new generation of antidepressants. However, the most important part of psychiatric care is the active collaboration of the doctor and the patient, aimed at identifying and eliminating the global cause of the disease that causes panic attacks.