| Your heart races, you chest tightens, you | | | | attack or a panic attack. |
| suddenly get breathless and reach desperately | | | | |
| for something to steady your balance. Your | | | | Even though the signs and symptoms manifest |
| mind swims with a million questions and | | | | themselves in physical form in your body such |
| thoughts. But most pressing in the mind of a | | | | as breathlessness, dizziness, sweating, |
| panic attack victim is "Am I going to die?" | | | | trembling or choking a panic attack will |
| | | | never cause death regardless of how severe it |
| Thousands of people world wide suffer regular | | | | is. |
| attacks of panic or anxiety. As terrible, | | | | |
| debilitating and frightening as the symptoms | | | | Numerous research has been done into the |
| can be the chance of you dying is zero. | | | | effects of panic attacks on some particular |
| | | | parts of the body. These have mainly been |
| Reaction by the body is only a representation | | | | focused on the effects of panic attacks on |
| of what the mind is thinking or believes | | | | the cardiovascular system and have no |
| about a particular situation. Fight or flight | | | | conclusive evidence. |
| is one term used to described this. | | | | |
| | | | Regardless of what you are feeling during a |
| Some of the symptoms of a panic attack are | | | | panic attack your best defense against the |
| similar to those of other more serious | | | | question can panic attack cause death, is to |
| conditions such as a heart attack or stroke. | | | | firmly put into your mind that you will not |
| The most scary part is that it is very | | | | die. This is one step towards a holistic |
| difficult to tell if you are having a heart | | | | approach to overcoming panic attacks. |