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What is a panic attack?

What is a panic attack? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A sudden period of intense anxiety, mounting physiological arousal, fear, stomach problems and discomfort that are associated with a variety of somatic and cognitive symptoms.
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Basically, they avoid any situation they fear would make them feel helpless if a panic attack occurs.
She hadn't had a nightmare, or a panic attack or anything of that sort, yet she was extremely agitated.
Exposure to the particular stimulus provokes anxiety, which may include a situationally bound panic attack.
On Tuesday night, he was said to have suffered a panic attack as the idea of leaving became too much.
Her panic attack had come on her swiftly, so swiftly, in fact, that he had not even registered it until she had collapsed in his arms.
More than a feeling of anxiety, a panic attack produces distinctive physical symptoms.

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