A panic attack, also known as an acute anxiety attack, is a form of anxiety disorder. The patient may experience sudden and intense discomfort, including chest tightness, breathlessness, palpitations, sweating, stomach upset, trembling, numbness in the hands and feet, a sense of near death, a sense of going crazy, or a sense of loss of control, for about a quarter of an hour per attack. The seizure may have no obvious cause or no special circumstances. 1, panic attacks are typically manifested when the patient is carrying out daily activities, such as reading a book, eating a meal, taking a walk, having a meeting or doing housework, and then suddenly has a strong sense of fear, as if he or she is about to die. This nervousness makes the patient unbearable. At the same time, the patient feels palpitations as if the heart is about to jump out; chest tightness and a feeling of pressure in the anterior chest area; or difficulty in breathing and blockage of the throat, as if he or she cannot breathe and is about to die of suffocation. As a result, the patient will scream, call for help or run out of the room, clutch his head, and some have hyperventilation, dizziness, facial flushing, excessive sweating, unsteady gait, tremor, numbness of hands and feet, gastrointestinal discomfort, and other vegetative symptoms, as well as motor restlessness. This kind of attack, usually lasts for 5-20 minutes, is short and can be relieved by itself, and the patient feels all normal after relief, but soon there can be a sudden relapse. 2, premonitory anxiety: most patients in the interval after recurrent panic attacks, often worried about the re-occurrence, and therefore anxious, can also appear some symptoms of hyperactive vegetative nerve activity. 3. Help-seeking and avoidance behavior: During panic attacks, due to the strong sense of fear, patients can hardly tolerate them and often immediately ask for emergency help. In the interval of the attack, 60% of the patients are afraid of not getting help during the attack, so they actively avoid some activities, such as refusing to go out alone, not to go to crowded places, not to travel by car, or go out to be accompanied by others, etc. The panic attack is not a heart attack Mr. Liu is engaged in trade work, six months ago, he was reading a book, he suddenly felt his heartbeat very high, breathing effort, chest tightness, and a whole body shaking. A thought came to his mind: he might die violently. Immediately call 120 emergency, but when he arrived at the hospital, a moment later these symptoms such as heartburn disappeared, check the heart and other important organs, everything is normal. In the following days, Mr. Liu was still very afraid of heart problems and repeatedly checked, although all doctors assured him that his heart was healthy, but to no avail. The symptoms like Mr. Liu’s are called “panic attack” in medical psychology, which is a manifestation of anxiety disorder. 1, often in daily activities, patients suddenly appear strong fear, as if they are about to die (near-death feeling) or about to lose their minds (out-of-control feeling), so that patients can not stand. At the same time, the patient feels palpitations, as if the heart is about to jump out of the mouth, chest tightness, chest pain, shortness of breath, and a sense of choking in the throat. As a result, the patient screams, calls for help, or runs outside. Some of them are accompanied by significant vegetative symptoms, such as hyperventilation, dizziness, excessive sweating, facial flushing or pallor, tremor, numbness of hands and feet, gastrointestinal discomfort, etc. 2. The attack is sudden, peaking within 10 minutes, and usually not more than one hour. The consciousness is clear and you can recall the seizure afterwards. Although these seizures last for a short time, usually 5-10 minutes, rarely more than an hour, they can be relieved by themselves and remain as normal, but they can suddenly recur again soon. Patients have frequent seizures, at least 3 times in a month, or the first typical seizure followed by anxiety for fear of another seizure often lasts for more than a month. Most patients are afraid of not getting help during an attack, so they actively avoid some activities, such as not wanting to go out alone, not wanting to go to a crowded place, not wanting to travel by car, etc., or asking others to accompany them when they go out (at this time, they also have a phobia of the square). Panic attack patients can also have depressive symptoms, and some have suicidal tendencies. There are many reasons for this mental illness, the main reason is related to his personality, such as the pursuit of absolute perfection and absolute security, so that his attitude toward some things is not afraid of one thing, only one thing. Excessive sensitivity and concern for one’s health. The following methods are currently used to treat panic attacks: 1. Drugs are effective for panic disorder. For example, Celerity, Lysop and other new anti-anxiety drugs. 2, running therapy: is to guide the patient to make a gradual and regular running. Generally speaking, running therapy is slower than drug therapy, the withdrawal rate is higher, but the efficacy is comparable. Particular attention should be paid to the fact that it is quite difficult to make the patient start regular running in the first 4 weeks, and the exercise program can only be carried out under the accompaniment of relatives, and with the implementation of the exercise program, most patients can persist and achieve satisfactory results. 3, cognitive-behavioral therapy: to be afraid of what to do. Panic attack, is a psychological feeling, it is a very light real illness. To the more afraid to go out, the more you want to go out, the more afraid to do things will faint, the more you want to do, the more you want to go to the hospital to check, the more you do not want to check, you will find that their own worries turned out to be so superfluous. Because panic disorder is a seizure disorder, medication must be adhered to for 3 to 4 months, after which the dosage is gradually reduced to maintain treatment and prevent relapse.