As people get surrounded by pressure in their local environment, they get stressed. Stress is the major cause of many diseases in human being. Most common of them is panic disorder. It is a condition in which people get recurring panic attacks. A panic attack is a feeling of terror which strikes without warning. A person can experience a panic attack at work, at a movie with friends, while sleeping, while driving or while travelling.
Someone experiencing a panic attack may feel that he or she is getting a heart attack, this fear of heart attack makes the situation worse. Panic attack and heart attack share same symptoms, but heart attack is severe in nature and panic attack will last only for 5-10 minutes and after that everything becomes normal.
It is one of the most distressing situation that a person can experience. Many people who have had one panic attack are at a danger of having many subsequent panic attacks.

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