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It is a highly uneasy feeling that you come across when your fears are either exposed or agitated.
It is entirely a state of mind and considering it a disease and dealing with it as an illness is actually a nothing more than mistake.
I am someone who has gone through it and who has also seen a very close one go through all the sufferings of anxiety and panic attacks - my brother.
And let me tell you that fighting panic attacks and anxiety requires will and determination more than anything.
Panic attacks may be an outcome of some hidden fear, a highly elongated stress period, a serious disease or a post medication or drug withdrawal side effect.
My brother was scared of death and unsure about his future.
He worried day in and day out about what his life would be if he didn't get a job or a regular source of income.
Prolonged thoughts about this often lead to very high blood pressure and a feeling that he might die due to choking of artilleries or brain hemorrhage.
It was very difficult to understand his problem as almost none of us in the family had ever passed through a stage similar to this in our lives and he was barely 17 then.
Five years of misery and agony drifted away before he finally met the psychiatrist who hauled him out of the atrocious situation.
The psychiatrist concentrated on the root of the entire problem.
He made my brother speak out his deepest fears.
I wouldn't say that the treatment was entirely medication free.
He prescribed some medicines which were later slowly dosed down.
What was more helping were the therapy sessions he had with my brother where he concentrated on filling my brother's mind with positive energy and relieving thoughts.
This helped him relieve and unwind and slowly he learned to create a shield around him.
Now whenever he gets a panic attack, he takes a few moments to relax, unwind, loosen and concentrate on the positive and feel good things.
This helps him a lot.
A panic attack is usually an aggravated form of anxiety.
It is when the fear inside you has grown too much that it grabs a hold of you.
Medication, yoga, exercises and therapies are really the things that can cure panic attacks.
A good psychiatrist will form a good support but you are the one who can make all the difference because it's you who chooses a way for your life.
Your determination towards achieving that way and finally your will to reach there will be the biggest help.
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