Panic attacks can feel uncontrollable, but science reveals new ways to manage symptoms effectively. Here’s how to regain ...

Panic attacks are dramatically abrupt bursts of acute anxiety that feel life-threatening but are not. They build into a crescendo of fear within minutes, but what they lack in duration they make ...

“They really have identified a new circuit that I didn't know about before.” Subsequently, said Han, “People started to think that maybe panic disorder might be different from conventional anxiety ...

When you drink alcohol, the brain ramps up the release of a chemical called gamma-aminobutyric acid, or GABA, which helps us ...

As both an anxiety therapist and someone who has personally experienced Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), panic disorder, OCD, and agoraphobia, I’ve heard countless descriptions of anxiety and ...

A panic attack is a sudden wave of overwhelming fear and anxiety that is accompanied by physical symptoms. For some people it can produce the same sensations as a heart attack, including chest ...

He and his wife are convinced he is having a heart attack. He could be-only, this time, the ER doctors tell him his heart is just fine. What he's having is a panic attack. Though no one should ...

Panic attacks are often perceived with dramatic and obvious symptoms like hyperventilation, crying, or overt distress. However, silent panic attacks can be equally crippling but usually do not ...

People with anxiety may already know what it's like to experience an anxiety or panic attack based on previous (scary) experiences of physical symptoms brought on by stress or another trigger (and ...

The rush of a panic attack can feel completely overwhelming, but there are ways to calm yourself down, even when you’re in the middle of one. Trying to put a panic attack into words is tricky.