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Panic is a psychological and somatic state of anxiety usually involving extreme fear, characterized by symptoms such as shortness of breath, rapid pounding heartbeat, sometimes dizziness or light-headedness, tunnel vision, a sense of unreality, and a feeling of needing to escape from a situation or location.

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29 year experience in Clinical Psychology

How long it usually lasts:

Chronic (lasts years to lifelong)

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