After having your first attack, you will know the different symptoms that compose a panics attack. Your heart palpitates, you feel numbness in different parts of your body, usually on the toes and fingers, you have a hard time breathing, and then you feel really scared of dying right there and then. A dream like state comes over you, and you then feel like you are totally separated from the world. Worse, you get dizzy with an upset stomach, and there goes the vomit. Before you know it, you have been totally embarrassed in front of many people in that night club because you got scared of your lifetime crush coming towards your way. And then you go straight to your car, leaving the place and off to your safe and sound ivory tower—your home. The night is over with another panic attack.

With these experiences, people with panic disorder then realize that the actual attacks will not get them killed. What might, in some way, kill them (or maybe their social life) is having the attack in front of so many people. It may get people to think that you are some crazy lunatic without a self esteem, or you are plain unnerved. Well, that is actually the worst part of having anxiety attacks. They may come at the very least time you expect them to, and if you do not know how to control them, you will—at some point—get another embarrassing moment.

The best way to prevent panic attacks is not to run away from the causes. It is not running away from people, either. To challenge the very situations where you have had attacks will definitely make you a lot stronger, where there are fewer chances of these attacks. You have to make yourself get used to those instances, and soon enough you will be able to avoid having them for good.