What are panic attacks?

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  1. Dr. Mehmet Oz
     
    Dr. Mehmet Oz answered:
    You can almost think of this as acute episodes that are born from things that normally wouldn’t be a cause of stress, like feeling doom when you get in a car. In other words, it’s an exaggerated flight-or-fight response that doesn’t necessarily match the situation. If you get panic attacks, you experience symptoms such as shortness of breath, an elevated heart rate, sweating or chills, nausea, dizziness, trembling, and a sense of dissociation, along with intense fear.    
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