Symptoms of Panic Attack

Panic attacks are the triggering of the so called “fight or flight” mechanism, i.e. your body’s reaction to a situation your mind perceives as stressful and requiring immediate action and resolution (i.e. you have to leave it by solving it or by flying away).

If this reaction triggers in real high stress times requiring an extra level of action, then it is healthy and is going to help your survival (this is the so called “eustress” or “good stress”).
When this reaction triggers at inappropriate moments, becomes a panic attack. If a panic attack is triggered frequently in your daily life it becomes a panic disorder.

Are you having a panic attack?

So how can you tell if you are suffering from a panic attack? Together with tightness in your chest, there are just a few less common symptoms related to panic attacks, each varying from person to person in frequence and intensity. In fact most chronic panic sufferers tend to have a unique set of symptoms that mark uniquely their panic attacks.

Here are a few more distinguishing factors behind panic attacks:

• Increased heart rate.
• Quickness of breathing.
• Overwhelming feeling of dread or fear (panic).
• Unfounded fear towards random objects or events.
• Increased body temperature.
• Tingling in one or both arms and/or the tips of the fingers.
• Dizziness.
• Profuse sweating.
• Lightheadedness.
• Nausea.
• Minor delusions.

Even if the symptoms of panic attack can be daunting, a person who experiences any combination of the above symptoms has to remember that the feelings will not last very long.

The fact is that panic attacks are very limited in time and the body can only maintain this reaction for, at most, 15 minutes.

So the panic is in your mind but is not in your time. It’s overwhelming but it won’t last forever in your day. It’s hard, but you won’t die and you are going to experience a relief short after. Find out how to stop panic attacks today, be in control!

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