What are the symptoms of Panic Attacks?
Panic attack symptoms can vary from person to person. Our individual panic attack symptoms are dependent on many factors including our biological makeup, environment and age.
Panic attack symptoms mostly include symptoms of high anxiety such as:
- Shortness of breath
- Racing heart
- Shaking
- Dizziness
- Sweating
Symptoms can also include:
- Distorted thoughts
- Aggression
- Digestive problems
Panic attacks can be situational or spontaneous and the symptoms which are produced can be very dependent on your distance from a person or a place of safety, the weather, your level of hunger and many more factors which, to a non-sufferer, may appear trivial. Panic attack symptoms are not trivial. To the sufferer they are extreme and frightening and make the sufferer feel as if the world is ending.
Panic attack symptoms can be many or few during the throws of a Panic attack. Some sufferers experience just two or three symptoms and these can change over time, this is called a 'limited symptom panic attack'. Other sufferers experience massive, distressing panic attacks which bring with them a wide range of symptoms.
Regardless of how often you experience panic attacks or how severe the symptoms might be, you can rest completely assured that neither the panic itself nor the panic attack symptoms you experience can cause you any harm whatsoever.
Panic attacks developed as a means to cope with impending danger, they are a purely a self-preservation reaction. They would never have developed for this purpose if they posed a risk to the sufferer.
You can permanently eliminate panic attack symptoms by addressing the underlying cause, the anxiety itself. Panic attack symptoms occur at the very last stage of the 'anxiety creation' process, but remove the underlying anxiety disorder which creates them and the panic attacks will disappear.