Panic Attacks (Anxiety Attacks)

Panic attacks, sometimes also called anxiety attacks, are caused by the body reaching a level of anxiety which causes us to experience a group of the most extreme symptoms of anxiety.

This inappropriate level of anxiety, which causes a panic attack, is usually reached when an anxiety-provoking situation causes an over-production and under-use of Adrenalin, the hormone responsible for the anxiety reaction.

Panic attacks are directly related to an underlying anxiety disorder and not to the anxiety experienced under 'normal' circumstances. If, for example, a dog were to run out in front of your car, you would experience and immediate burst of high anxiety. This would, however, settle down quite quickly without producing a panic attack.

Panic attack sufferers have an underlying 'high' benchmark level of anxiety, (i.e. an anxiety disorder and/or panic attacks), this 'settling down' period doesn't happen. These people are always anxious, so, a sudden, further increase in anxiety, from the dog running out in front of them for example, would project them into a panic attack.

This website is dedicated to those people - people for whom high anxiety and panic attacks are constant reminders of their anxiety disorder and those for whom panic attacks form the basis of all their decisions.

Panic attacks are caused by inappropriate anxiety, treat the anxiety and the panic attacks fade away.