Panic Disorder

...spiked-risk Bird fluArticle23 February 2006Bird flu: an infectious panicEven if bird flu does transform into a human pandemic, we are better placed to tackle it than ever before in history.by Rob LyonsEverything You Need to Know About Bird Flu and What You Can Do to Prepare For It, by Jo Revill, Rodale, 2005Bird Flu: Everything You Need to Know, John Farndon, Icon Books, 2005'It was nothing like a winter flu.

Victims suffered intense pain and terrible rib-cracking coughing spells, and their skin, their eyes and their ears started to bleed profusely.

Worst of all, they turned deep blue as the clogging up of their lungs starved their blood of oxygen...over the space of a few hours or a few days at best, they literally suffocated as their lungs filled up with fluid and blood.…'John Farndon's description of how the 1918 flu put paid to its victims illustrates why so many medical experts have cause to be afraid of the consequences of the current bird flu becoming infectious among humans.

His book, Everything You Need to Know: Bird Flu, is one of various books published in Britain and America on the subject in the past few months.But it is worth putting this danger into some perspective.

Some three years after the latest outbreak was identified in east Asia, the number of books published in Europe and America on bird flu (Amazon UK stocks at least eight) greatly outnumbers the number of people killed in the same area (zero).The threat is something that should rightly co...

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Victims suffered intense pain and terrible rib-cracking coughing spells, and their skin, their eyes and their ears started to bleed profusely.

Worst of all, they turned deep blue as the clogging up of their lungs starved their blood of oxygen...over the space of a few hours or a few days at best, they literally suffocated as their lungs filled up with fluid and blood.…'John Farndon's description of how the 1918 flu put paid to its victims illustrates why so many medical experts have cause to be afraid of the consequences of the current bird flu becoming infectious among humans.

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Join the debate » 10 tips for coping with panic attacks One: If you feel a panic attack coming on and find you are breathing rapidly, breathe slowly in and out of a brown paper bag or cupped hands.

Although you may feel you can't catch your breath, you are probably over breathing and taking in too much oxygen - making you feel giddy.

A paper bag will help your oxygen levels return to normal.

Two: Change your lifestyle.

Take regular exercise - this helps to burn off excessive adrenaline.

Avoid cigarettes and alcohol.

Eat regular meals and avoid processed foods and drinks, to keep blood sugar levels stable.

Three: Don't attempt to fight your way out of a panic attack - this will simply increase the adrenaline.

Instead accept the feelings will come and go and allow the symptoms to play their tricks as they will.

Practise imagining yourself floating over them.

Eventually the panic will subside.

Four: Don't bottle up your emotions.

Find someone to confide in, such as a family member, friend or counsellor.

Five: Focus outside of yourself during an attack.

Listen to some music or do a pleasurable task while waiting for the panic to subside.

Six: Learn a relaxation technique.

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