What is The Difference Between A Panic Attack and an Anxiety Attack?
Anxiety is a typical reaction to stress. It helps you to deal with a tense situation at work, in traffic, with a partner, or to study harder for an exam and keep focused on something really important. In general, it’s a mechanism to help you to cope. However, when anxiety becomes an excessive, irrational dread of everyday situations, it will become a disabling disorder which can lead to panic attacks.A panic disorder is characterized by unexpected and reocurring instances of intense fear accompanied by physical symptoms that can include chest pain, heart palpitations, shortness of breath, dizziness, abdominal uncomfort and digestive problems. These reactions often mimic symptoms of a heart attack or other life-threatening medical conditions. Because of this, the diagnosis of panic disorder is usually not made until extensive and costly medical procedures fail to provide a correct physical diagnosis or only temporary relief.
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