Panic attacks can look like everyday stress, making people brush off the alarming symptoms. Understanding the difference is ...

About 1 in 4 people suffer from an anxiety disorder at some point in their lives. These include panic disorder with sudden, severe anxiety attacks; generalized anxiety disorder, in which sufferers ...

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

intense, gripping terror accompanied by heart palpitations, dizziness, and smothering sensations. Causes: psychological vulnerabilities, stress, unresolved childhood ...

By breathing into a paper bag, a person suffering from panic attack can keep their carbon dioxide concentration and pH of the ...

In A Nutshell Brazilian researchers tested 72 panic disorder patients in a head-to-head trial: high-intensity sprint ...

This article was reviewed by Lynn Marie Morski, MD, JD. Key Takeaways: Hormonal changes during menopause, especially shifts ...

Having a panic attack? You're not alone. Learn how to ride it out with kind, practical steps—like grounding, breathing, and support. Help is here, right now.

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 ...

Chest pains are more common than we think. Many people experience these out of nowhere, no fore warning or previous occurrences etc. Usually having chest pains is associated with heart attacks, which ...

For millions of people, air travel is a routine part of life. But for others, the thought of stepping onto a plane sparks intense anxiety or even panic. Known as aerophobia — or more simply, fear of ...