What is an Anxiety Attack?

Anxiety means anticipation of impending danger and dread accompanied by restlessness, tension, tachycardia, and breathing difficulty not associated with an apparent stimulus

Anxiety Attack is an acute psychobiologic (mind/body) reaction manifested by intense anxiety and panic.

Symptoms vary according to the individual and the intensity of the attack, but typically they include some form of the following: raging heartbeat, shortness of breath, dizziness, fainting, profuse sweating, pale face , nausea, diarrhea, tingling in fingers or toes, fear that you are going crazy or about to die. Attacks usually occur suddenly, last from a few seconds to an hour or longer, and vary in freqency from several times a day to once a month.

Anxiety Attacks strike between 3-6 million Americans per year and is twice as common in women as in men