Panic Disorder

... Cymbalta® Safely And Effectively Treats Core Anxiety Symptoms Of Generalized Anxiety Disorder - Study 25th March 2006 home xml feeds newsletter advertise accessibility contact Archive Search Medical Abbreviations Cymbalta® Safely And Effectively Treats Core Anxiety Symptoms Of Generalized Anxiety Disorder - Study This ArticleAlso Appears InAnxiety Psychology/Psychiatry Clinical Trials Main Category: Depression News Article Date: 25 Mar 2006 - 0:00am (UK)A new study of approximately 500 patients evaluated the safety and efficacy of the antidepressant Cymbalta® (duloxetine HCl) on the core anxiety symptoms in patients with generalized anxiety disorder.

Cymbalta significantly reduced core anxiety symptoms and associated painful physical symptoms and improved functional impairment associated with the illness.

Results will be announced on Saturday, March 25, in two separate presentations[i],[ii] at the Anxiety Disorders Association of America (ADAA) Annual Conference.

In this nine-week study, Cymbalta significantly improved core anxiety symptoms such as anxious mood, fears and tension by 51 percent in patients taking 60mg/day and by 50 percent in patients taking 120mg/day compared to an improvement of 32 percent in patients taking sugar pill.

Patients taking both 60mg/day and 120 mg/day had significantly greater response and remission rates compared to patients taking...

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In the world of behavioral therapists, however, panic attacks begin and end not with brain chemicals but with thoughts and actions.

Therapists say particular types of people are most prone to panic attacks.

Perfectionists and overachievers are more likely to have anxiety overflow.

No matter what causes panic attacks, doctors and therapists agree that the real trouble starts after the first panic attack.

Singer Carly Simon once confessed not only to panic attacks but also to a secondary and just as crippling fear, the fear of more panic attacks.

A fear of an attack returning can cause the development of other phobias, such as performance anxiety, claustrophobia or the fear of the outdoors.

"I've talked to people who won't go to the dentist or go get their hair cut because they don't want to have a panic attack in a place where they cannot easily flee," says Margaret Summy, a Fort Worth therapist.

Often, those people assume their fear is of the dentist or of the hairstylist.

"That's not it," Summy says.

"After the first attack, they start analyzing it and say, `I'm not going to do that again.'" One woman whom Vinson treated had refused to leave her house without her husband for 11 years, so fearful was she that another panic attack would occur.

She told Vinson that one day she left the house by herself and tried to spark another panic attack.

"You can't have one when you want to," he told her.

"You have to fear it or it won't appear." The woman...