In 1997, Laurie Tarkan received an invitation to a wedding. Instead of it being a magical and memorable day it ended up being a sad and gloomy day. Tarkan had her first experience with a panic attack. The panic attack occurred because of the biological, psychological, developmental, and sociocultural factors. These four factors are part of the multidimensional approach.
The first factor that contributed to her panic attack was the biological. According to her doctor, Tarkan had carbon dioxide in her blood. If you have too much carbon dioxide in your body it can harm you. This is also one of the symptoms of having a panic attack. She also had a cold and she was taking medicine to help get rid of the cold. Taking medicine can also alter brain chemicals and this could have triggered the panic attack.
The next contributor to her panic attack was the psychological factor. Tarkan was feeling nervous about the wedding. She was feeling this way because she was going to
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A psychiatrist told her, “If I was driving across the bridge; therefore, it must be the bridge. Everyone does it.” If everyone does it then that must be okay if it happens to her. There is no need to worry about the
The last factor was the developmental influence. Tarak tends to get nervous about health matters. She got this fear from her mother’s illness and death. She developed this fear when she was a child and has kept it throughout her life.
When it came to treating her panic attack, Laurie didn’t have to use cognitive-behavioral therapy or anti-anxiety drugs, which are two common treatments. Instead she found an alternative to that and she started to breathe heavily to cope with her attacks. The way that breathing helps is that it lowers the carbon dioxide in the system. Another resilience factor was that she lied about what happened to her that night. Instead of saying that she was anxious that night she told people that she had a bad drug
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living in such a manner. I did not know the exact cause of her anxiety
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possibility that she might be using this as a coping mechanism to forget her past