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Topic: Anxiety Attack Symptoms

Vital Stats

The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:

People talk about their ..:

Childhood trauma, Weirdness

Bad point(s):

Pessimistic

Personality:

Nervous, Shy, Suicidal

Currently has on their coffee table:

Entertainment Weekly

Dream job(s):

Social worker, Unemployed

Religion(s):

Satanic

Favorite activity(s):

Sleepwalking sleepwalker, Working

Favorite movie(s):

Independence Day

Medical note(s):

Heart attack imminent, Taking Valium, Approaching psychosis

Worst habit(s):

Taking Ecstasy

Favorite quote(s):

"Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd." - William Congreve (1670-1729)
"I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it."
"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt." - Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Expert Talk

The Brain has selected interesting relevant sentences from the web. It automatically assigned them to some of our fictitious experts based on their personalities.

Albert Graham,
Backyard Pool Drainer

These are some of the possible symptoms of a panic or anxiety attack but what does it feel like to experience one?

Adam Findley,
Professional Motivator

Emotional anxiety and nervous stress can cause fatigue, which may affect the immune system and increase asthma symptoms or aggravate an attack.
She experienced panic attacks and anxiety when the next situation presented itself, sometimes experiencing symptoms within hours after a therapy session.
These participants were given the Panic Attack questionnaire to discriminate between anxiety/normal symptoms and panic attack experiences.

User Talk

Comments from our users:

From:
nicholas Andrew
2005-05-13 14:46:14

one night i was on the drug ecstacy,(i'm an experienced user when on this drug, taken it over 30 times at least) and i had just got done smoking a little bit of marijuana.. about 20 minutes or so go by and i layed down to listen to music. Next thing i know i shot up from lying down on the bed,took the biggest breath ive ever taken in my life and to my knowledge i started having a severe panic attack which lasted through the night, (3 hours) and into the morning untill i had to go to the emergency room. i wanted to know what may of caused the attack?

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