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What Causes Panic Attack?

Panic attacks will often have an underlying anxiety disorder such as GAD or General Anxiety Disorder, OCD or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, PTSD or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, a Social Phobia or other similar conditions.  That does not mean that if you suffer from one of these disorders that you will have panic attacks, many people suffer from these disorders and don’t have panic attacks.

Some panic attacks may be triggered by an event while others just spring up from out of the blue with no trigger at all.  If you are suffering from a panic disorder then you will usually suffer panic attacks without any trigger.  They are very unexpected which is part of the reason that they are so scary, you can’t predict when one might occur.  Because they are so unpredictable a person will often live in a constant fear of another panic attack happening. Read the rest of this entry »