What exactly is a panic attack?

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Catherine Atnas, a private psychologist in London, describes the kind of symptoms that someone may feel when they suffer from panic attacks. The Chelsea Psychology Clinic are a group of London psychologists and psychiatrists offering private psychological therapy and psychiatry treatment from their premises across central London and Chelsea. The private therapy sessions cover the following areas: – Acceptance & Commitment Therapy – Cognitive Analytic Therapy – Cognitive-behavioural Therapy – Couples Therapy – Dialectical-behaviour Therapy – Mentalisation Based Treatment – Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy – Schema Therapy https://www.thechelseapsychologyclinic.com

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A panic attack is when you have a sudden surge of anxiety symptoms, such as heart palpitations, or dizziness, breathing very quickly, feeling very hot and sweaty, and perhaps shaky with wobbly legs. It tends to sometimes feel like it’s happening out of the blue, especially initially. But over time, what can happen is that you can start to experience those symptoms in the situations that you’ve previously had a panic attack in, and that’s when it might start to become panic disorder.