During those eras when man is still trying to preserve his lines on earth, he must have likely benefited from a mechanism called as panic attacks. You might have heard of fight or flight mechanism. Well, this is it.

With the absence of devices that could lengthen his survival (which we know are impossible to be created during the Stone Age period) he has to learn some adaptations. One, to flight from the prey and two, to fight if he has no other means.

These two are very simple yet highly effective response towards self-preservation. That's why it has to be fast, it must come from something that men cannot detect. He needs to run to save himself from an animal or to fight to be able to deflect a member of another tribe. He has to do it quick.

Well, it seems like he has carried the mechanism until these days.

Though we obviously don't need these mechanisms these days as they are interpreted above, we are still likely to present them as parts of our existence as surviving beings.

But for some people, panic attacks didn't work well, in fact they worked negatively.

Why does panic attacks feel so strange? What really goes on in the psyche of a person having a panic attack?

As your body feels tension brought about by thoughts that may be or may not be grounded on physical bases, it has to release adrenaline and other hormones to help you increase mechanisms that will help you survive. Apparently, these hormones such as adrenaline and the likes aid in speeding up heart palpitations, which cause other systems to react.

In effect, more pressure in the heart will cause the blood rushing to the body. It will also raise the heartbeats of the person which would normally appeal to the sufferer as a symptom of a severe condition.

Your legs as well as your arms may shake which may trigger you to run. Your palms will then become sweaty to equip you with better grip.

You will feel like vomiting. And so your sensations are heightened to something wrong is happening in your body.

These symptoms can be emphasized with the sensation of choking or chest pain. Along with dizziness and paresthesias or numbness/tingling sensations.

These symptoms of anxiety attacks, when combined can cause the sufferer to think that he is on the verge of death. Either death from stroke, suffocation, heart attack, or is going crazy. And these thoughts alone are enough to make him become panicky, tensed and very uncomfortable with himself. It is also likely that after such an episode, he will anticipate regularly that such may come to him again, and again, and again.

Once the person overcomes an episode, his initial response would be to develop a fear over the same incidence. Secondly, he will try to take control of the condition. Yet he won't have it…atleast consciously.

In panic attacks the control is shifted from the conscious mind to the subconscious. Thus it feels more like the person cannot be in command of his sensations.

The peak of any panic attacks lasts only from 10 to 12 minutes, the sensations will all be gone after an episode. However, the after effects are far worse. They would linger and they would eat the person's well being.