Interní Med. 2007; 9(7): 338-342
Panic disorder in outpatient internal clinic
- 1 Psychiatrická léčebna Dobřany, interní oddělení
- 2 Psychiatrická léčebna Dobřany, Psychiatrická ambulance Plzeň
Panic disorder is a frequent mental disease, manifested by repeated unexpected attacks of great anxiety, combined with marked somatic symptoms. For many reasons, these patients visits internists, specially in the early stage of their disease, and are frequently met by doctors in outpatient clinics. Although it is a common disease, doctors in other specialities are not familiar with panic disorder and frequently it is not diagnosed at all. Thus untreated disease often became chronic and considerably lowers quality of life of patients. Nevertheless, if correctly diagnosed, panic disorder could be cured pharmacologically and even psychologically.
Keywords: panic disorder, anxiety, somatic symptoms, antidepressant, benzodiazepins, psychotherapy
Published: December 18, 2007 Show citation
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