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	Panic Attacks - Anxiety - Stop and Cure Panic Attacks - Health
	A panic attack is a period of intense fear or discomfort, typically with an abrupt onset and usually lasting no more than thirty minutes. Symptoms include trembling, shortness of breath, heart palpitations, sweating, nausea, dizziness, hyperventilation, paresthesias (tingling sensations), and sensations of choking or smothering. The disorder is strikingly different from other types of anxiety disorders in that panic attacks are very sudden, appear to be unprovoked, and are often disabling. Most who have one attack will have others. People who have repeated attacks, or feel severe anxiety about having another attack, are said to have panic disorder The symptoms of a panic attack appear suddenly, without any apparent cause. They may include: * Racing or pounding heartbeat or palpitations * Sweating * Chest pains * Dizziness, lightheadedness, nausea * Difficulty breathing (dyspnea) * Tingling or numbness in the hands, face, feet or mouth * Flushes to the face and chest or chills * Dream-like sensations or perceptual distortions (derealization) * Dissociation, the perception that one is not connected to the body or even disconnected from space and time (depersonalization) * Terror, a sense that something unimaginably horrible is about to occur and one is powerless to prevent it * Fear of losing control and doing something embarrassing or of going crazy * Fear of dying * Feeling of impending doom * Trembling or "shivering" * Crying

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