What Is Panic Anxiety?

More and more people, every year go to the doctor and report that they are feeling stressed, run down and that they can't cope with their lives.  They tell their doctors about odd symptoms they've been experiencing for the past few weeks and their doctor gives them a shock: he diagnoses them as suffering from panic anxiety or panic attack.  Many people have heard of it but not many people really know what it is.


Symptoms of a Panic Attack

The symptoms of a panic attack are instantly recognizable.  The most common symptoms of these attacks occur mostly in the upper body.

Heart Symptoms

A person suffering from a panic attack will often have heart palpitations.  Their heart will start to race very quickly or pound very loudly. And the pounding of the heart will often cause a person to experience mild to severe chest pain as well.

Stomach Related Symptoms

Another frequent symptom is related to the stomach, such as nausea and sometimes bloating.

Difficulty Breathing

The third main symptom is problems with breathing. The patients feel they are unable to catch their breath or they feel they don't get oxygen enough.  Sometimes they can feel like they are being suppressed.

Lightheadedness and Dizziness

Dizziness is also very common sometimes to an extent where they feel they will collapse.  As a matter of fact some people do collapse, so also with lightheadedness that some patients get rather than dizziness. They have to sit down to avoid fainting.

Other Body related Symptoms

Other physical symptoms are paleness, hot flashes, chills and other.


In most cases panic attacks last only a very short time but can also last for several minutes.


Why Do Panic Attacks Occur?

Most experts agree that the causes of panic attacks are psychological malfunctioning in the body's alarm system. The symptoms of panic attack described above are natural reactions for normal persons when they feel their life threatened in one way or another. When a person has a panic attack their body is convinced by their mind that something horrible is going to happen.

Fear is considered as the root cause of panic attacks even in cases where the actual fears themselves are different. Most doctors also agree that much life stress can trigger the beginning of panic attacks and that even certain drugs or medications can make some people to experience panic anxiety or attacks.

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by Gary Gui
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