How To Recognize Symptoms Of Panic Attacks

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By Peter Johnson

There is a long list of symptoms of panic attacks, including emotional, mental, perceptual, and physical symptoms. Some of the most frequent emotional symptoms include many heightened fears, such as fear of a serious illness, fear of death, fear of failure, fear of going insane, fear of living, fear of losing control, and fear that the panic attack will not stop. Other emotional symptoms include an intense feeling of being scared, flashbacks to a previous trigger, and terror that something horrible is going to happen soon and that you cannot avoid it. Some common mental symptoms include avoidance behavior, agoraphobia, fear of impending death or doom, feeling of emotional exclusion, feeling like you are going insane, feeling like no one understands, feeling like nothing is real, feeling of impaired vision, feeling out of control, intense frightening realizations of reality, racing or irrational thoughts, loss of the ability to react logically to external stimuli, loss of cognitive ability, and loud internal dialogue.

Perceptual symptoms include apparent temporal slowing down or speeding up, depersonalization or dissociation, dream-like sensations, feeling that you have no free will, heightened senses, and tunnel vision.

Physical symptoms include dry mouth, chest pain, choking or smothering sensations, exhaustion, feelings of claustrophobia, grinding of the teeth, headaches, heart palpitations, hot and/or cold flashes, hyperventilation, itching or burning sensations, lightheadedness, localized numbness, muscle spasms, nausea, stomach discomfort, sweating, shortness of breath, vertigo, trembling, symptoms of feeling like you are having a heart attack, weakness, temporary blindness, and ringing in the ears.

As you can no doubt surmise from the long list, panic attacks can come in many shapes and sizes and often people don’t even recognize that they are having one. Those who have had them say that panic attacks are one of the worst experiences they have ever been through. Many report that they feel as if they have lost complete control of themselves and that their body will not respond to their mental commands. Panic attacks are our “fight or flight” response, which is found in all animal species. This response is how some individuals react to stress, including some animals—they “shut down” instead of running or fighting. We have come a long way since the days in which predators were trying to eat us, so our response has changed. These days, we have the stress of dealing with modern problems such as financial issues or raising our family.  We no longer have something to run away from or physically combat, though some who experience panic attacks say that they do feel like running away from the location in which they had their panic attack, which is a completely understandable biological “flight” response.

Conclusion

If you are experiencing any of these many symptoms, you should visit a licensed professional that can advise you on whether you are having panic attacks or experiencing another medical issue. Panic attacks are a frequent problem that psychologists know how to successfully treat. You can put a stop to panic attacks early on by recognizing the symptoms of panic attacks.

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