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anx·i·ety at·tack

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  1. anxiety attacknoun

    a sudden acute episode of intense anxiety and feelings of panic

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  1. anxiety attack

    An anxiety attack, also known as panic attack, is a sudden episode of intense fear or overwhelming apprehension that triggers severe physical reactions when there's no real danger or apparent cause. It may involve feelings of impending doom, shortness of breath, chest pain, heart palpitations, a sensation of choking, sweating, shivering, or trembling, and a fear of losing control or dying. While extremely uncomfortable, it's generally not life-threatening.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of anxiety attack in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of anxiety attack in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of anxiety attack in a Sentence

  1. Jennifer Andresen:

    It bothers me that I can't look at a picture, like a lotus flower, it's like it's crawling on me, like the picture is on me. I get dizzy, I feel nauseated and my head hurts. I have an anxiety attack times a thousand, like I'm jumping out of my skin.

  2. Larry Caputo:

    I just cared for her enough that I was n’t going to let that affect us, i was n’t going to break up with her because she has this issue. I feltlike I was her anchor in those moments. It was a pattern and it would n’t last long, I knew that, so it just a matter of getting through whatever amount of time it took her to go through that anxiety attack.

  3. Gabrielle Union:

    Honestly Gabrielle Union's just one big anxiety attack, between the global pandemic that the world is experiencing and waking up every day to the brutalization, the murder of black bodies.... [ it's daily ]... the nonstop onslaught of trauma... I don't even know if anxiety is a big enough word.

  4. Jennifer Brown Hyde:

    I'm 50 years old, and I can have an anxiety attack over getting in the car with my husband.


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