The symptoms of panic attacks involve physical, mental, environmental, and perceptual symptoms.

Physical
• A sensation of adrenaline going through your entire body
• Burning sensations
• Chest pain
• Choking or smothering sensations
• Dizziness or vertigo
• Exhaustion
• Feeling of claustrophobia
• Feeling of physical weakness or limpness of the body
• Grinding teeth or tensing other muscles repeatedly or for prolonged periods of time
• Headache
• Hot/cold flashes
• Hyperventilation
• Lightheadedness
• Nausea / stomach pains
• Racing or pounding heartbeat or palpitations
• Shortness of breath (dyspnea)
• Sweating
• Tingling or numbness in the hands, face, feet or mouth (paresthesia)
• Trembling or shaking
• Uncontrollable crying
• Uncontrollable itching

Mental
• Intense and/or frightening realizations of reality
• Extreme worried feeling
• Feeling like you are going to die any second
• Feeling of “going crazy”
• Feeling of anti-social behavior from other people
• Feeling of being threatened by something (often when nothing “threatening” is present)
• Feeling of excitement
• Feeling of extreme nervousness
• Feeling of impending doom
• Feeling of nagging from other people
• Feeling out of control
• Loss of cognitive ability in general
• Loss of the ability to react logically to stimuli
• Loud internal dialogue
• Racing thoughts (often based on fear; a repeated or illogical worry)
• Vision is somewhat impaired (eyes may feel like they are shaking.)

Emotional
• Terror, or a sense that something unimaginably horrible is about to occur and one is powerless to prevent it
• Becoming upset (either angry or sad)
• Extreme anxiety or nervousness
• Fear of death
• Fear of going crazy
• Fear of living
• Fear of losing control
• Fear that the panic is a symptom of a serious illness
• Fear that the panic will not subside
• Flashbacks to earlier panic trigger[citation needed]
• Intense “scared” feeling
• Uncontrollable crying

Perceptual
• Tunnel vision
• Dissociation, or the perception that one is not connected to the body or is disconnected from space and time (depersonalization)
• Dream-like sensation or perceptual distortion (de-realization)
• Feeling of loss of free will, as if acting entirely automatically without control
• Heightened senses
• The apparent slowing down or speeding up of time

Top 10 causes that trigger panic attacks can be found here.

By: Kaung | ChitChat247.com | KMKBlog.com