An even more perverse effect can be grafted: agoraphobia, the fear of going out, the fear of empty spaces, where there is no point of support.
Sometimes there is also claustrophobia, fear of closed spaces and loneliness, so the person loses all reference.
Panic attacks: cause and origin
What is the origin of the panic, and why are we seeing a kind of epidemic right now, at this historic moment?
After much reflection, and after listening to and following so many people, it seems to me that I am finding constants.
Social instability, external threats and the lack of reference points certainly have their weight.
But that is not enough.
What is the type of person exposed to panic?
A few years ago they were mainly women, now no longer, more and more men confess to the dark evil.
They are not at all incapable, weak people: they are often dynamic and active people, supportive of others, but who feel they are falling apart.
However, it seems to be noted that these are people who often do not know their own emotions, who tend to suppress them.
Above all, one particular emotion: aggression.
These people cannot afford “bad emotions”.
But bad emotions exist and, if repressed, they become a kind of “tsunami” that suddenly strikes and overwhelms the person.
It is the “orgasm of fear” that perhaps replaces a violent discharge of anger.
Sometimes, they are people subjected to heavyweights, harassed by requests from others, incapable of reacting.
Their reaction is to hit themselves and thus paralyze even the healthy part of their aggression.
Panic attacks: therapy and healing
How can one heal?
It is not easy to perceive panic as self-aggression, it is not easy to separate this massive attack into the “particles” of repressed emotions.
The panic-stricken person does not know (and does not accept) that he or she is bursting with anger and will strenuously resist the analyst’s attempt to turn aggression elsewhere.
They are often, as we have said, very oblative people, who consider themselves full of love and do not accept to feel fear and anger.
They do not even accept normal competitiveness or assertiveness, which is experienced as an aggressive fact, detrimental to others: here is the panic from exams, the panic at work.
When panic is associated with agoraphobia, it blocks the person at home, to prevent them from invading the space of others and being harmful.
Healing, therefore, inevitably passes through assertiveness and familiarity with unpleasant emotions such as anger, hatred, envy.
It is through competent help that one can begin to understand these aspects, then accept them and finally overcome them.
