Common symptoms of panic attacks include intense fear, shortness of breath, chest pain, sweating or chills, racing heart, and nausea. Learn more here.

Using exercise as exposure therapy helped people with panic disorder reduce feelings of distress and anxiety, in a new study.

One moment you’re going about your day normally, and the next your heart is pounding like it’s trying to escape your chest while your brain screams that something catastrophic is about to happen. Your ...

Experiencing a panic attack for the first time is one of the most terrifying moments you can face. It feels like you’re going to die. It’s all but impossible to breathe. There is chest pain, a ...

Panic attacks are sudden bouts of intense fear without an obvious cause. An estimated 10% of people experience at least one panic attack in their lifetime. But between 2% and 3% of the population have ...

Panic attacks extend far beyond psychological distress, manifesting as powerful physical experiences that can be mistaken for serious medical emergencies. The physical symptoms often prove so ...

I think there is a misapprehension that those of us in the mental-health field who write self-help books do so from a clinical distance and without personal experience with the content that we present ...

Panic attacks are sudden bouts of intense fear without an obvious cause. An estimated 10% of people experience at least one ...