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Panic Attack

Panic is typically defined as acute anxiety, terror, and or fright that is usually of immediate and sudden onset. The panic feels uncontrollable to the one experiencing it. Panic attacks are considered to be more acute and intense than general panic.

Panic Attack Symptoms

Typically a person diagnosed with panic attack will need to show four of the following symptoms. These symptoms initiate quickly, without reasonable stimulus, and peak at around 10 minutes:

• Palpitations: The experience of intensely feeling one’s own heart beating as if it was to beet out of one’s chest.
• Sweating
• Trembling or shaking
• Sensations of shortness of breath or a sense of being smothered
• Feeling of choking
• Chest pain or discomfort in the chest
• Nausea or abdominal distress
• Dizziness or light headedness
• Feeling of unreality or being detached from oneself
• Felling of losing control or going crazy
• Fear of dying
• Paresthesia: numbness or tingling sensation, particularly in the arms and lets
• Chills or hot flushes
• Feeling of imminent danger
• Feeling of impending doom and an urge to escape