Panic symptoms: A feeling of impending doom; intense fear that often coincides with so-called physiological changes; by definition lasts at least 10 min ; at least 4 of these: shallow, fast breathing; rapid heart-rate/palpitations; chest tightness, nausea/vomiting in some cases; feeling cold ; clammy or lightheaded; trembling/shaking; feeling of dying or losing control; numbing/tingling; feeling of being unreal.
Answered 12/19/2013
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Agree w Dr. Altman.: Panic attacks often last 2 to 10 mins. Sx’s can include: sense of severe anxiety or panic, chest tightness or pain, rapid or pounding heartbeat, areas of numbness or pins ; needles type sensation, hot flashes or chills ; heavy perspiration. There may be a tickle sensation in the stomach or nausea, feeling dizzy or faint ; physical shaking. The person may fear that they are going crazy, they are >.
Answered 4/2/2015
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Panic attacks: Panic attacks involve intense anxiety and a fear of some catastrophic outcome such as a fear that one is having a heart attack, stroke, losing one's mind, losing control or fainting. Other symptoms include hyperventilation, rapid heart rate, dizziness, depersonalization and dissociation.
Answered 4/13/2014
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Panic: Sudden intense fear and apprehention along with physiological symptoms of anxiety such as shortness of breath, sweating, heart racing, lightheadedness, etc. Attacks occur for no apparent reason.
Answered 4/2/2015
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Panic attack: Troue breathing, heart racing, feeling that the world is going to end.
Answered 9/25/2012
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Panic: Sense of impending doom, tense muscles, heart racing, sweating, GI upset, fast breathing, sense of urgency, fear of dying or going crazy, headache, chest tightness, blurred vision, numbness & tingling, with symptoms lasting few minutes to 1/4 hour.
Answered 6/10/2014
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