Tag: panic attack

Your heart suddenly starts pounding and you can't seem to breathe or catch your breath. You have no idea what's going on and you think you're losing your mind. You're scared to death—welcome to the overwhelming world of panic attacks.

One of the most difficult things about panic attacks is that they seem to come "out of the blue," for no apparent reason. There you are tooling along, things seem to be going just fine when, wham, it hits. That is what makes panic attacks so crazy. Your spouse hasn’t left you; the house hasn't burned down; you're not in the middle of an earthquake or tornado; and your child hasn't vanished. So why are you feeling this way?