Panic or anxiety disorder is a medical or psychological disorder characterized by severe and sudden attacks or episodes. Panic attacks reach intensity within a minute or more. They decrease slowly after the next thirty minutes or even the next several hours. It is also common for a person to go to an emergency medical facility if it is a first attack. Random attacks would occur months after the first attack, and maybe as severe as the initial attack. And there are sometimes minor symptoms such as rapid heartbeat. Continued panic attacks causes a person to look for further medical evaluations. Many people who undergo panic attack are called as hypochondriac due to the seeking of doctors and counselors because it takes time before they receive proper diagnosis. Panic anxiety disorder begins mostly when people are on their age of twenties to thirties. Moreover, it begins less often in teenagers or people in their 40’s.

It is important to know that even though experts and doctors say that panic disorder is more common in persons who in his childhood years experienced separation, many experts feel that panic anxiety disorder occur on emotionally healthy people. People that experience panic attacks are not like the average American that suffered from emotional problems at the time the disorder begins.

There are many symptoms of anxiety panic attack. It includes raging of the heart beat, difficulty in breathing, feeling as though you cannot get enough air, terror that is almost paralyzing, nervous, shaking, stress, heart palpitation, feeling dread, dizziness, light headedness or nausea, trembling, sweating, shaking, choking, chest pains, distress, fear, fright, anxiety, hot flashes, sudden chills, tingling in fingers, and being fearful to go crazy and about to die.

The main symptom of all the symptoms of anxiety panic attack is the panic attack itself.