1. Long-Term, Predisposing Causes
2. Biological Causes
3. Phobias
4. Short-Term Triggering Causes
5. Maintaining Causes
6. Lack of Assertiveness
7. Medications
8. Hyperventilation Syndrome
9. Situation Specific Panic Attacks
10. Pharmacological Triggers

Long-Term, Predisposing Causes

Long term causes are known as heredity; panic disorder, the repeated and persistent panic attacks states, has been found to run in generations of the families, which conveys that inheritance genes play a crucial role in choosing the next victim in the families. However there are also results of people with no family history developing panic disorder as well. Environmental factors can bring cumulative stress over time to an individual growing up, leading the individual to develop the disorder, which can become long-term and persistent.

Biological Causes

Biological causes are either due to Vitamin B deficiency. Vitamin B deficiency is the result of poor diet or the depletion is due to a parasitic infection from a tapeworm, which in turn trigger anxiety attacks. How can a person acquire efficient amount of Vitamin B? The natural sources of Vitamin B are potatoes, chili peppers, bananas, liver, liver oil, tuna, turkey, molasses, and yeast. Although beer can be considered to be a type of yeast, filtered beers and alcohol can interfere with the activation of the vitamins in the body.

Phobias

Phobia, an absurd, extreme, continual fear of certain situations, things, activities, or people can also directly trigger panic attacks. A list of phobias, their terms and meaning can be found at PhobiaList.com.

Short-Term Triggering Causes

Unlike long-term causes, short-term causes are not the result of heredities, but rather the result of emotional, environmental factors of due to drug abuses. Major personal loss, including an emotional affection to a romantic partner, spouse or significant other, life changes, significant life changes, stimulants such as caffeine and nicotine, or the drug abuses of marijuana can trigger panic attacks and are all short-term causes.

Maintaining Causes

If a person worries a lot about a situation, an event or the environments, increase in anxiety disorder can result. Avoidance of panic infuriating events and environments, nervous negative self-talks such as too much thinking on what if this happens or what if that happens, stubborn beliefs such as falsely believing the symptoms are of a severe disease, and lack of assertiveness can indirectly build anxieties and cause panic attacks.

Lack of Assertiveness

People with passive communication styles of being polite and respectful all the time can be characterized as being unassertive. This unassertive way of communication can lead to panic attacks, and be consistently present in those who are already experiencing panic attacks, and later grow to panic disorder. For instance, no person can be unemotional towards outside harsh impressions and comments; those who always act to be polite and respectful inside may have their feeling hurt deep down inside and compilation of feelings to oneself can build up one’s anxieties toward a situation, later leading to panic attacks.

Medications

Panic attacks can also result form the side effects of medications. Almost all the antidepressants can increase anxieties during the initial usage period, and it is common for inexperienced patients to have panic attacks while accustoming to or off the medication. Panic attacks resulting from medications may be a temporary side effect only effecting during the initial usage of the medication or it could continue whenever there is a necessity for the patient to change medication due to resistance evolvement to the current one.

Hyperventilation Syndrome

Hyperventilation is when the breathing become faster and/or deeper than usual, reducing the carbon dioxide concentration of the blood below usual. Hyperventilation can cause symptoms such as numbness, tingling, dizziness, headache, slurred speech, chest pain, and lightheadedness which can trigger panic attacks. Increase in breathing rate, can cause over breathing, where excess carbon dioxide in relation to the amount of oxygen in the blood flow is exhaled. Hyperventilation syndrome can cause respiratory alkalosis (a condition reducing hydrogen ion concentration of arterial blood plasma) and hypocapnia (a state of reduced carbon dioxide in the blood).

Situation Specific Panic Attacks

Classical conditioning, association of certain situations with panic attacks, due to experience with one in the past, can create a behaviorally or cognitive predisposition to having panic attacks at the same certain situation as before. For instance, forgetting of the words for the speech, and getting laughed at can trigger panic attacks if the person were to make a speech the next time.

Pharmacological Triggers

Similar to the side effects of medication, pharmacological triggers can also contribute to panic attacks. Certain chemical substances, such as stimulants and certain depressants, can either contribute pharmacologically to a collection of frustrations, and as the result triggering the panic attacks or even a panic disorder. Pharmacological triggers also include caffeine, alcohol, amphetamine and many other biologically effecting substances.

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