Imagine if you will that you’re walking down the street on a pleasant spring day feeling upbeat about life itself when suddenly you feel something nudge you from behind. You turn around to see that an eight foot tall grizzly bear is staring you in the eye and is about to attack. The feeling you’ll experience is severe anxiety to straight out panic, which is normal due to the situation.

A panic attack is the sudden onset of intense anxiety, characterized by feelings of intense fear and apprehension and accompanied by heart palpitations, shortness of breath, sweating, trembling plus several other symptoms. It is not understood what the cause of panic attacks is but several things could play a role including a combination of factors like biological and environmental.

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