What's the difference between anxiety and panic?

Anxiety


Definition:

  • (n.) Concern or solicitude respecting some thing or event, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful uneasiness.
  • (n.) Eager desire.
  • (n.) A state of restlessness and agitation, often with general indisposition and a distressing sense of oppression at the epigastrium.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) During and after the infusion of 5HTP, none of the patients showed an increase in anxiety or depressive symptoms, despite the presence of severe side effects.
  • (2) Several interpretations of the results are examined including the possibility that the effects of Valium use were short-lived rather than long-term and that Valium may have been taken in anticipation of anxiety rather than after its occurrence.
  • (3) However, it is easier for them to cope with anxiety because premedication pacifies the patients, whereas each of the dependent variables, such as apprehension, is influenced differently.
  • (4) Anxious mood and other symptoms of anxiety were commonly seen in patients with chronic low back pain.
  • (5) Lactate-induced anxiety and symptom attacks without panic were seen more often in the groups with panic attacks, but a full-blown panic attack was provoked in only four subjects, all belonging to the groups with a history of panic attacks.
  • (6) Higher anxiety, depression and psychiatric morbidity scores were reported by all patients at 6 and, to a lesser extent, at 12 weeks with greater differences in women.
  • (7) Anxiety conditions were measured by monitoring palmar skin resistance with a psychogalvanometer.
  • (8) Ex-patients of a dental fear clinic were found to have significantly reduced, yet still high, dental anxiety scores in comparison with the pre-intervention scores.
  • (9) However, a decision-sharing approach had a significant effect on reducing anxiety levels in third-grade children.
  • (10) Forty five elderly patients undergoing total hip replacements were assessed one day before and two days after surgery in order to explore the relationship between pre-operative anxiety and post-operative delirium.
  • (11) Seventy-three percent of 90 psychiatric inpatients had a coexisting anxiety disorder.
  • (12) Although the general guiding principle of pharmacotherapy for anxiety disorders--the lowest effective dose for the shortest possible time--remains, this rule should not interfere with the judicious use of medications as long as the benefits justify it.
  • (13) Ketazolam was found to be significantly better than placebo in alleviating anxiety and its concomitant symptomatology as measured by the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale, three Physician's Global Impressions, two Patient's Global Impressions, and three Target Symptoms.
  • (14) The following examinations could be proposed: in high risk cases determined before pregnancy, a chorionic villus sampling should be done between the 9th and 11th weeks of gestation; in low risk cases such as advanced maternal age, a first trimester chorionic villus sampling or a second trimester amniocentesis could be chosen; in the case of Down's syndrome, warning signs, for example ultrasonographic or biological parameters, a second trimester placental biopsy to relieve the parents' anxiety; in high risk cases such as ultrasonographic malformations, late placental biopsy or cordocentesis.
  • (15) Subjective measures of anxiety, frightening cognitions and body sensations were obtained across the phases.
  • (16) The focus will be on assessment of the gravid woman's anxiety levels and coping skills.
  • (17) Anxiety, depression, and somatization were greater in RAP mothers than well mothers.
  • (18) The writer Palesa Morudu told me that she sees, in the South African pride that "we did it", a troubling anxiety that we can't: "Why are we celebrating that we built stadiums on time?
  • (19) The encouraging pilot results warrant a controlled study of exposure for dysmorphophobic avoidance and anxiety.
  • (20) Study of the clinical characteristics of depressive state by hemisphere stroke with the use of symptom items of Zung scale and Hamilton scale showed that patients in depressive state with right hemisphere stroke had high values in symptom items considered close to the essence of endogenous depression such as depressed mood, suicide, diurnal variation, loss of weight, and paranoid symptoms, while patients in depressive state with left hemisphere stroke had high values in symptom items having a nuance of so-called neurotic depression such as psychic anxiety, hypochondriasis, and fatigue.

Panic


Definition:

  • (n.) A plant of the genus Panicum; panic grass; also, the edible grain of some species of panic grass.
  • (a.) Extreme or sudden and causeless; unreasonable; -- said of fear or fright; as, panic fear, terror, alarm.
  • (a.) A sudden, overpowering fright; esp., a sudden and groundless fright; terror inspired by a trifling cause or a misapprehension of danger; as, the troops were seized with a panic; they fled in a panic.
  • (a.) By extension: A sudden widespread fright or apprehension concerning financial affairs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The findings are more consistent with those in studies of panic disorder.
  • (2) The sound of the ambulance frightened us, especially us children, and panic gripped the entire community: people believe that whoever is taken into the ambulance to the hospital will die – you so often don’t see them again.
  • (3) Lactate-induced anxiety and symptom attacks without panic were seen more often in the groups with panic attacks, but a full-blown panic attack was provoked in only four subjects, all belonging to the groups with a history of panic attacks.
  • (4) Evidence of the industrial panic surfaced at Digital Britain when Sly Bailey, the chief executive of Trinity Mirror, suggested that national newspaper websites that chased big online audiences have "devalued news" , whatever that might mean.
  • (5) Panic disorder subjects showed a negative relationship between pulmonary function and hyperventilation symptoms, suggesting a heightened sensitivity to, and discomfort with, sensations associated with normal pulmonary function.
  • (6) The occurrence of secondary MDE was related to the length of time subjects were ill with panic disorder.
  • (7) This unbearable situation leads to panic and auto-sensory deprivation.
  • (8) Patients with temporal lobe abnormalities were significantly younger at the onset of panic disorder and had more panic attacks compared with patients with normal MRI scans (p less than .05).
  • (9) Sometimes it can seem as if the history of the City is the history of its crises and disasters, from the banking crisis of 1825 (which saw undercapitalised banks collapse – perhaps the closest historic parallel to the contemporary credit crunch), through the Spanish panic of 1835, the railway bust of 1837, the crash of Overend Gurney, the Kaffir boom, the Westralian boom, the Marconi scandal, and so on and on – a theme with endless variations.
  • (10) The incidence of cardiac perceptions was about the same in both groups, but only subjects with panic attacks reported anxiety associated with such perceptions.
  • (11) Future work on biochemical causes of, and pharmacological treatments for panic attacks should take account of such factors.
  • (12) He was the peaceful activist whose sudden disappearance into a phalanx of riot police on a Baltimore street sparked a viral panic.
  • (13) Unresolved etiological issues requiring clarification in the near future include the following: (1) Are stressful events important in the development of panic, or are they more incidentally related?
  • (14) The results provide support for cognitive mediation in the "panic" component of spontaneous panic attacks.
  • (15) Most panics surged out of a pre-existing plateau of tonic anxiety which lasted most of the day.
  • (16) Advancing to the edge of the Ireland penalty area, he tries to pick out Thierry Henry, but his pass is wayward and a panic-stricken, back-pedalling Ireland defence clears.
  • (17) Meantime, while we wouldn't want to you panic, Owen Gibson says vuvuzelas may be on their way to the Premier League .
  • (18) Some were less fortunate, but panic has given way to a Balkan pride and resilience.
  • (19) The findings are discussed in relation to conditions such as somatisation disorder, the syndrome of chronic unexplained pain, and panic disorder.
  • (20) The Scottish defence did well not to panic, there, as Walcott's twinkle-toed run had penalty written all over it.