Health Tip: Anxiety Attacks

(HealthDay News) -- Anxiety attacks cause sudden, severe and sometimes paralyzing fear, often for no apparent reason.

The American Academy of Family Physicians lists these common symptoms of an anxiety attack:

• Feeling shortness of breath or a choking feeling.
• Tightness or pain in the chest, and rapid or pounding heart.
• Rapid pulse.
• Dizziness, nausea, sweating and lightheadedness.
• Shaking or trembling.
• Hot flashes, chills or feelings of tingling or numbness in the hands and feet.
• Feelings of a dream-like state, losing control or going crazy.