Symptoms of Panic Attacks
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
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Cases of anxiety disorder or panic attacks seems like on the upward trend. From ADD to depression to anxiety and panic attack disorders, I wonder when the list ever ends. Are you one of the many who suffer from one of the various mental afflictions? If so, how do you go about coping and dealing with it on a daily basis?
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