What is a Panic Attack and the Symptoms?
What is a Panic Attack and what are its symptoms is a question, that when asked, you might get many different answers. Here is one more: A panic attack can be recognized when the below symptoms occur, but when there is no presence of danger. During a panic attack, there is a feeling of terror that strikes with no warning. These attacks usually have a rapid onset of symptoms which build and peak around 10 minutes and then last for 20 to 30 minutes.
Panic attack symptoms are strikingly different from other types of anxiety; panic attacks are so extremely sudden and often unexpected, they are unprovoked, and can become very disabling.
Symptoms include:
–rapid and pounding heartbeats
–the sensation of smothering
–feelings of fear, doom, hopelessness & dread
–weakness
–numb and/or tingling hands
–sweating
–feeling faint and/or flushed
–feeling cold and having chills
–feelings of losing one’s mind
–nausea
–dizziness
–feelings of losing control
While having a panic attack, the person often feels he/she is on the edge of dying. This experience can be so extremely frightening that the person lives in dread and worry of the next attack.
Not everyone who experiences a panic attack develops into a disorder. It is possible to only have one, but that one can lead to continual concern and worry that it will happen again.
Panic attacks can happen anywhere, for example: while shopping in a crowded store, riding in an elevator, or driving. Once someone has had a panic attack, he or she might develop irrational fears, called phobias, thus leading to avoidance of the situations.
When full-blown panic attacks become repetitive, the person’s life is totally altered into one of seclusion and avoidance of normal activities. Depression, drinking and other addictions can occur. When this kind of disabling lifestyle occurs treatment should be sought immediately, before the condition becomes agoraphobia (fear of open spaces) where the person becomes housebound.
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