Panic Attack Symptoms

Typically a person diagnosed with panic attack will need to show four of the following symptoms. These symptoms initiate quickly, without reasonable stimulus, and peak at around 10 minutes:

* Palpitations: The experience of intensely feeling one’s own heart beating as if it was to beet out of one’s chest.
* Sweating
* Trembling or shaking
* Sensations of shortness of breath or a sense of being smothered
* Feeling of choking
* Chest pain or discomfort in the chest
* Nausea or abdominal distress
* Dizziness or light headedness
* Feeling of unreality or being detached from oneself
* Felling of losing control or going crazy
* Fear of dying
* Paresthesia: numbness or tingling sensation, particularly in the arms and lets
* Chills or hot flushes
* Feeling of imminent danger
* Feeling of impending doom and an urge to escape