2006-12-23 04:44:41 · 14 answers · asked by ? 2 in Health ➔ Mental Health
it starts with difficulties to breathe normally, pressure in the chest, irritability, depression. Your mind loses grip of reality, confusion, helplessness.
2006-12-23 04:48:38 · answer #1 · answered by ladysorrow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Make sure you're talking anxiety attacks vice panic attacks. A panic attack involves the feeling that you are going to die. Anxiety attacks are a few levels below that. I had a panic attack one time when I was visiting NYC. I had been partying all weekend, doing a lot of drugs, hadn't slept for 3 days. I drank a whole bunch of fruit punch gatorade, because I thought I was going to die from dehydration. Then I went to the bathroom and the gatorade went out the other end -- I thought I was bleeding to death, called 911. Anyway, my pulse was 220, blood pressure thru the roof, etc. I was told if I called 911 again they'd send me to bellevue.
2006-12-23 13:02:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My anxiety attacks: I get chills with waves of hot flashes that make me break into a light sweat. My heart rate goes up and I breathe erratically. I get a tickle in my throat and it feels like it closes up a little bit, making it harder to breathe. Sometimes it feels like my stomach is tightening up and my chest feels constricted.
My panic attacks: All the same symptoms as above but they move much faster, almost immediately, into something worse. I start hyperventilating or I forget to breathe and feel like I'm suffocating and I see black spots, my eyes start rolling around, I sometimes throw up, I have racing thoughts that I should kill myself because I'm going to die any second anyway and things are just so unbelievably bad and I just want it to end. I shake, cry and have delusional thinking. Sometimes I freeze out of fear.
2006-12-23 13:39:39 · answer #3 · answered by Pico 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dizzy spells leading to panic
Tightness in throat and chest- shortness of breath
Racing heart with tingle sensations
Obsessive worries and unwanted thoughts
Overwhelming fear that something awful is about to occur
2006-12-23 12:55:04 · answer #4 · answered by kigrawi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They can vary tremendously. Nervousness, shortness of breath, chest tightness, racing thoughts, "bad" thoughts, worrying, insomnia, tremor, inability to concentrate, and even in severe cases, anxiety can lead to depression. I do not want to advocate one kind of treatment over another, but I know for me, therapy and xanax have worked tremendously well. Good luck to you!!
2006-12-23 12:51:03 · answer #5 · answered by PremiereTalentUSA 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Along with the physical symptoms you can also feel like "you're going crazy" or something dreadful is going to happen.
2006-12-23 12:57:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Worrying a lot over stupid things you never used to worry about. Lack of sleep. Pacing up and down the hall. Like another poster said... leads to depression.
2006-12-23 12:54:47 · answer #7 · answered by Mr. Peachy® 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sweats, racing pulse, breathlessness for a start
2006-12-23 12:47:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
shortness of breath,feeling like you got to run away
2006-12-23 12:48:45 · answer #9 · answered by lily 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
UNCONTROLLABLE THOUGHTS, RAPID HEARTBEAT, FEELING OF THROAT CLOSING UP, PAIN IN CHEST, SWEATING, STOMACH UPSET, HYPERVENTILATING.........
2006-12-23 13:38:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋