FROM PANIC TO PEACE OF MIND

                      Overcoming Panic and Agoraphobia

                            by C.B. Scrignar, M.D.

Anxiety is the most wide spread emotional disorder in the population with a life long prevalence rate of 14.6 percent.  A National Institute of Mental Health study revealed that 8.3 percent or 13.1 million Americans over the age of 18 are suffering from one of the anxiety disorders.  Millions of people with panic attacks suffer unnecessarily because they are undiagnosed and untreated.  Agoraphobia frequently accompanies panic disorder and frequently complicates and restricts the lives of many people.  Untreated, panic and anxiety can lead to alcoholism, drug abuse, psychosomatic illness, and severe depression.  Victims need not suffer.  The cure is here.  Over the last decade researchers and clinicians have developed successful treatment for anxiety.  Dr. Scrignar draws upon 25 years of experience as a clinician and educator, as he describes the diagnosis and treatment of panic, agoraphobia, simple and social phobias, post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and generalized anxiety.  Focusing on panic and agoraphobia, he proposes a plan for treatment and analyzes those factors correlated with success.  From Panic to Peace of Mind offers therapeutic suggestions which can be utilized as part of a self-help program or in combination with a therapist.