There are several symtpoms of a panic dosorder. These symptoms include physical,
mental, emotional and percepcetual symptoms.
A person sufeering panic disorder may have all these symptoms or a combination of two or three of them.
The symptoms include:
Physical
* A sensation of adrenaline going through your entire body
* Sweating
* Shortness of breath (dyspnea)
* Racing or pounding heartbeat or palpitations
* Chest pain
* Dizziness or vertigo
* Lightheadedness
* Nausea / stomach pains
* Hyperventilation
* Choking or smothering sensations
* Uncontrollable itching
* Tingling or numbness in the hands, face, feet or mouth (paresthesia)
* Hot/cold flashes
* Trembling or shaking
* Feeling of claustrophobia
* Exhaustion
* Feeling of physical weakness or limpness of the body
* Uncontrollable crying
* Grinding teeth or tensing other muscles repeatedly or for prolonged periods of time
Mental
* Intense and/or frightening realizations of reality
* Loss of the ability to react logically to stimuli
* Loss of cognitive ability in general
* Racing thoughts (often based on fear; a repeated or illogical worry)
* Loud internal dialogue
* Feeling of impending doom
* Feeling of "going crazy"
* Extreme worried feeling
* Feeling of extreme nervousness
* Feeling out of control
* Feeling of being threatened by something (often when nothing "threatening" is present)
* Feeling of anti-social behaviour from other people
* Feeling of excitement
* Feeling of nagging from other people
* Vision is somewhat impaired (eyes may feel like they are shaking.)
* Feeling like you are going to die any second
Emotional
* Terror, or a sense that something unimaginably horrible is about to occur and one is powerless to prevent it
* Fear that the panic is a symptom of a serious illness
* Fear that the panic will not subside
* Fear of losing control
* Fear of death
* Fear of living
* Fear of going crazy
* Flashbacks to earlier panic trigger[citation needed]
* Intense "scared" feeling
* Social fear
* Public Speaking Fear
* Extreme anxiety or nervousness
* Uncontrollable crying
* Becoming upset (either angry or sad)
Perceptual
* Tunnel vision
* Heightened senses
* The apparent slowing down or speeding up of time
* Dream-like sensation or perceptual distortion (derealization)
* Dissociation, or the perception that one is not connected to the body or is disconnected from space and time (depersonalization)
* Feeling of loss of free will, as if acting entirely automatically without control
