Anxiety Attack Symptoms

Anxiety attack symptoms are defined as what we experience when we feel something dangerous is about to happen. Anxiety attacks can be terrifying experiences. They can involve a period of sudden and intense fear or discomfort, typically with a sudden onset and usually lasting for no more than 10 minutes.

Sometimes a person can experience a panic attack all of a sudden without particular reason. Most people that experience one attack will usually experience further attacks, and those who have recurring attacks, or feel severe anxiety about having another are said to have panic disorder.

A normal person may experience one or more of these symptoms from time to time. Having to experience some of these anxiety attack symptoms is considered normal if you have reasonable explanations for them. But if you are experiencing them for no apparent reasons, it can be a sign of a more serious condition.

The following are some of the possible anxiety attack symptoms.

* Chest pain or discomfort

* Nausea, bloating or indigestion

* Feeling light headed, dizzy or unsteady

* An uneasy feeling

* Feeling as if you don't exist

* Fear of losing control

* Choking sensation

* Shortness of breath

* Pounding heart or palpitations

* Sweating

* Shaking

* Urgent need to visit the toilet

* Numbness or tingling sensations

* Hot flushes or Chills

* Becoming pale, colour draining from the face

* Blushing or blotching of the skin

A person with a phobia will usually experience an anxiety attack as a direct result of exposure to the things that trigger the phobia. These anxiety attacks are short- lived and quickly relieved once the trigger is escaped.

Usually an anxiety attack begins with an unusual bodily sensation from the anxiety attack symptoms. A person having an anxiety attack will then react, with fear that the symptoms are indicators of a much more serious threat and in turn reacts with more fear which intensified into a state of intense anxiety and panic.

Possible situations where anxiety attack can occur include:

* when driving

* on an airplane

* crowded areas

* during sleep at night.

Anxiety attack symptoms are more or less the same feelings we might experience if we feel danger is about to happen. They are signs of how we usually react if we are triggered by fear, worry, and concern.

Sometimes anxiety attack occurs in a situation where the person cannot exit easily from a social gathering, or in a meeting, but others may experience an incident of anxiety for no reason while in comfortable place or even in sleep.