subject: Anxiety Sufferers [print this page] A lot of panic disorder sufferers have had an injury that necessitated an extensive interlude of confinement. Weeks or months of mending at home can cause folks to be increasingly unused to the external world. Once they are at last up to going out, they might discover that they are overwhelmed for a moment by the sensory assault of traffic noises, crowds, street sounds, obtrusive light, billboards and additional stimuli. It is exactly at this moment in time that they are most vulnerable to a panic attack. If panic should hit, they are not apt to ascribe it to having been housebound for so long. As an alternative, panic may appear to arrive "unexpectedly", a frightening, more or less paralyzing experience that causes them to feel susceptible to yet another attack.
