What are the symptoms of panic disorder?

Fear is also an important manifestation of people's psychology. The reason for fear in most cases is the psychological anxiety caused by encountering various threats. Fear is often a short-term tension and can return to normal afterwards. However, long-term fear can cause mental problems in patients, and the consequences are very serious. Let's take a look at the manifestations of tension phobia.

1. Social phobia

It is mainly characterized by almost uncontrollable and immediate anxiety attacks in social situations, and persistent and obvious fear and avoidance of social scenes. Specifically, the patient is afraid to appear embarrassed, tremble, blush, sweat, or behave clumsily and be at a loss in situations where there are people around or where others are paying attention to him or her, for fear of attracting other people's attention. Therefore, they avoid social situations that induce anxiety, dare not sit across from others to eat in a restaurant, are afraid to get close to others, and especially avoid talking to others. Erythrophobia is a common type of erythrophobia. Patients feel shy, blushing, uneasy, embarrassed, clumsy, and slow in public and are afraid of becoming the object of ridicule. Some patients are afraid to look into other people's eyes or meet other people's gazes, which is called eye contact phobia.

2. Specific phobias

A specific phobia is an intense, irrational fear or aversion to a particular object or highly specific situation. It is common in childhood. Typical specific phobias are fears of animals (e.g., spiders, snakes), natural environments (e.g., storms), blood, injections, or highly specific situations (e.g., heights, confined spaces, flying). This can cause patients to develop avoidance behavior.

3. Agoraphobia

Not only are they afraid of open spaces, but they are also anxious about not being able to leave quickly in crowded places or not being able to call for help. One of the key features of a panic situation is that there is no immediately available exit, so patients often avoid these situations or need to be accompanied by family members, relatives or friends.