Panic Symptoms Increase Steadily, Not Acutely
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Just like everyone else, people with panic disorder have real stress in their lives. They get laid off and they fight with their spouses. How such stresses affect their panic symptoms hasnt been well understood, but a new study by researchers at Brown University presents the counterintuitive finding that certain kinds of stressful life events cause panic symptoms to increase gradually over succeeding months, rather than to spike immediately.
We definitely expected the symptoms to get worse over time, but we also thought the symptoms would get worse right away, said Ethan Moitra, a postdoctoral researcher in the…
