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Nowadays, hardly there is a person who hasn\u2019t heard the term \u201cpanic attack<\/strong>\u201d. It is being used so often that you may have started worrying \u2013 what kind of malady is this? It seems that half the people are affected by it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A panic attack (PA) is an unexplainable and very disturbing bout of acute anxiety. It is accompanied by general fear in conjunction with different bodily reactions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You could say that PA is a plague of the 21st century. But it doesn\u2019t mean that panic attacks didn\u2019t exist before. They surely did! But there was no such diagnosis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The person would come to a doctor with a dozen of different symptoms that could not be explained by any physiological reasons. The apparently healthy organs were malfunctioning. Such a mystery, right? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the way, the doctors were ready to help. They would prescribe herbal sedatives and baths, they would ask the person to worry less, to go out for a walk, or to take a contrast shower. Etc., etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the patient would not get better.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reactions of the autonomic nervous system could bring a huge discomfort. For example, if a person has weak capillaries, then even if they worry about something a little bit, they may get symptoms like PA. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The state of panic feeds on itself \u2013 when a person breathes fast, the brain gets the signals of nervousness. For example, like this: \u201cOh, fast breathing!<\/strong> That means something scary is going on, I should get ready!\u201d. <\/em>This, in turn, causes fear (sometimes even the fear of death), and the state of panic intensifies even more. It is a positive feedback loop.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nancy has asthma; therefore, she can have trouble breathing. The physiological basis of her breathing problems is clear \u2013 it is asthma. But she has asthmatic episodes extremely rarely, mostly when she has some allergic reaction. The last time she experienced it was when she was hiking in a field full of blooming flowers. She easily dealt with it with the help of the inhaler that she always takes with her. In the winter, Nancy had to travel for work. Only on the plane, she noticed that she had forgotten her \u201cmagic wand\u201d<\/strong>. Over a span of 10 minutes, she had a full-blown asthma attack, that started with one simple thought: \u201cI don\u2019t have my inhaler!<\/strong> If an asthma attack starts \u2013 I will die, and nobody will be able to help me!\u201d She experienced strong fear and voila \u2013 she started suffocating.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Fortunately, one of the passengers had an inhaler and she helped Nancy. But panic attacks (that\u2019s what Nancy really experienced) started to occur regularly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panic attacks may hide behind the sudden onset of different bodily illnesses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, what kind of symptoms can this mysterious syndrome be comprised of?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n