When to Seek Professional Help
When to Seek Professional Help for Panic Disorder
This page highlights the kinds of urgent warning signs that should move the conversation from routine follow-up to professional assessment, crisis support, or emergency care.
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Seek urgent help now if any of these are present
- Thoughts of suicide, self-harm, or feeling unable to stay safe.
- Thoughts of harming someone else, escalating violent urges, or loss of behavioral control.
- Hopelessness so severe that the person feels there is no point in continuing or no way to stay safe.
- Severe agitation, psychosis, intoxication, withdrawal, delirium, or inability to care for basic needs.
- If there is immediate danger, call 911, contact 988 in the United States, or use emergency services in your region.