Anxiety can often be a regular reaction to stress. Feelings of anxiety can help
you to cope with tense situations at work or to help you maintain focus. It's
thought that anxiety could be a form of coping mechanism within our minds.
Unfortunately within some people anxiety can become uncontrolled and spiral into
an excessive dread of normal daily occurrences.
Some of the symptoms of anxiety can be things like heart palpitations or feeling
as though you're unable to catch your breath. Other people report chest pains or
nausea or even headaches. What's happening is that your brain is sending signals
to your body that makes it prepare itself as though protecting against a
perceived threat. If you were faced with a real physical threat your blood
pressure and heart rate would go up dramatically. Your mind is actually
preparing you for a fight or flight instinctual reaction. These reactions are
the same for anxiety sufferers and display as panic.
Panic attacks are unanticipated feelings of massive anxiety that appear for no
apparent reason. These are far more severe than just feeling a little bit
anxious and these attacks surpass regular feelings of stress. Statistics show
that around 1 person in 75 will suffer through panic attacks during some stage
throughout their lives.
There are people who experience frequent panic attacks to the point that it
completely debilitates their lives. They may begin to avoid anything that
reminds them of where the attack might have happened. For example, if a panic
attack struck in an elevator then that person may associate all elevators as the
cause of the attack. This could then lead to a complete avoidance of any
situation that might involve elevators. 
On their own panic attacks are not dangerous. However they are very real and
frightening to the person experiencing them. When the attacks are prolonged or
repeated over time then further complications can occur, like phobias of people
or places, depression, substance abuse and suicidal tendencies.
Facts about Anxiety and Panic Attacks
Each year more than 40 million Americans report being afflicted with some for of
anxiety disorder. The estimated cost of dealing with these disorders is in the
vicinity of $42 billion dollars every year. The enormous amount of people
affected by anxiety or panic related emotional disorders outweighs the amount of
people suffering from issues like bipolar disorder, schizophrenia or depression.
Even though a 'blanket' diagnosis of anxiety disorder may be given, there are
several forms of this disorder that vary in the degree of severity and traumatic
duress the person faces.

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