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Panic Attack Symptoms
Panic disorder like other mental health issues can be mild or major. Panic attacks may occur one time a year or up to multiple times a day.
They generally peak in about 10 minutes and can, but rarely do, last for several hours.
Panic attacks are the number one mental health problem for women. They may have a sudden onset.
However, in my experience, the person with sudden onset has generally been under extreme prolonged, or severe acute, stress.
Panic attacks are discrete periods of intense fear and anxiety that seem to come "out of the blue."
They cause both psychological and physical discomfort.
Some examples of panic attack symptoms are...
- Derealization or depersonalization
- Discomfort or pain in chest
- Feeling like you're choking
- Feeling like you're going crazy
- Nausea or abdominal discomfort
- Heart palpitations or racing heart
- Think you're going to die
- Sense of impending doom
- Trembling or shaking
- Shortness of breath
- Sweating/hot flushes
- Tingling sensations/numbness
Panic attacks is only a symptom of panic disorder. Many people have panic attacks, but may not necessarily have panic disorder. There are many different types of anxiety disorders of which panic attacks may be a symptom. Therefore knowing the symptoms of a panic attack is not enough...click here for more panic attack help.
