How To Win Your War Against Anxiety Disorders: Psychological Health Issues

A panic attack is the abrupt onset of intense fear or discomfort that reaches a peak within minutes and includes at least four of the following symptoms: Palpitations, pounding heart, or accelerated heart rate. Sweating. Trembling or shaking. Sensations of shortness of breath or smothering.

Symptoms of an anxiety attack can include:

• A feeling of overwhelming fear
• Feeling of going crazy or losing control
• Feeling you are in grave danger
• Feeling you might pass out
• A surge of doom and gloom
• An urgency to escape
• Dizziness
• Heart Palpitations
• Trembling
• Sweating
• Shortness of breath
• Chest pressure or pain
• Turning pale
• Feeling detached from reality
• Weak in the knees
• Burning skin
• Pins and needles
• Hot and cold flushes
• Numbness and tingling sensations

The above anxiety attack symptoms can be accompanied by:

• Choking sensation, tightening throat, it feels like your throat is closing, it feels like something is stuck in your throat
• Confusion
• Depersonalization (feeling detached from reality, separate from one-self, separate from normal emotions)
• Derealization (feeling unreal, in a dream-like state)
• Dizziness, lightheadedness, unsteadiness
• Emotional distress
• Emotional upset
• Inability to calm yourself down
• Knot in the stomach, tight stomach
• Nausea
• Panicky feeling
• Pounding, racing heart
• Butterflies in the stomach
• Sudden urge to go to the bathroom (urinate, defecate)
• Vomiting
• Feel like crying