don't believe what you read on the internet! You will NOT die from a panic attack. Never!!

I second this opinion!

What you read is not dealing with panic attacks. It is dealing with cases of intense fear. This can lead to death as the heart stops or a lethal cardiac rhythm occurs and death follows. Panic attacks do not cause death, only the sense of doom and despair.

I have never had a panic attack, I just suffer with generalized anxiety disorder/depression 24/7. I feel like I am losing my mind and feel like I am about to die. Nobody has been able to help to this point. I am still seaching. This is something new to me, always being mental/physically healthy until now. I am sorry you are going through this, I guess we just have to keep fighting until we can find a solution.

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Good thing to know btw.. my mom gets scared when my brother has one sometimes....

It's true. Panic attacks may very well make you feel like you're gonna die, along with the physical sensations and mental sensations, but you won't. Ever.

You can be "scared to death". It happens. For instance- such as when a person is buried alive and trying to claw their way out of a casket. The person literally dies of fear before they even lose oxygen.

It's a pretty far fetched idea, but you can die from a panic attack. But only if you let it kill you.

I read the articles and antigone said the same thing-

the articles are talking about dying from intense fear. That is different than a panic attack.

you cant die from panic attacks, iv had them for 4month and i feel like in dying when i have them even the after affects scare me, as far as i know im no you cannot die, after hearing this it has got me worried now. is it possible really?

My Cardiologist informed me today that i was not going to die! I had a panic attack and my heart raced at 130bpm and scared the hell out of me. It does feel like we are going to die, but its all in the mind i think. I take kolonipin, but did not take it today and not sure if that is why i had one or not. All i know is that it took 3mg to calm me down. I feel alot better knowing im not really going to die for the next attack. lol

hahaha, it's true that you cannot die from a panic attack.
but i found it funny that georgia was like, don't ever believe what you read on the internet, it's not true, but yet she's giving you another opinion. haha lol

It started when I was 17 years old. I never had any real problems with health or huge fears. One day they just hit me. When it started it felt like I couldn't take full breath, as if no matter how hard I tried to breath or how many breaths I took, I just couldn't get a 'full' breath. Then I noticed a nervous sort of burning sensation/nausea and than my throat felt really tight and it began to be difficult to swallow. I thought I was going to die. It was horrible. As time went on the got worse, and sometimes my face and nose would get numb from having to yawn so much(it was the only way I felt I could take a 'full' breath). I would get light headed and I felt like I was really going to die.

NONE of this occurred until I was prescribed "Paxil" for anxiety when I really felt like I didn't have any anxiety, but the doctor said it was supposed to help depression too. After a year of taking it off and on I finally removed myself from it and I kid you not, a few months later I suffered my first bout with anxiety/panic attacks. I've always wandered if that med is what helped cause all of this for me.

It took a few years for me to start battling it on my own. I just decided that if it was going to kill me then I didn't care because dieing from it would be better than living with it. However, it never killed me. I began to learn how to fight them mentally when they start so that they don't get too bad. However, that can rob you of some of your abilities to be emotional. Any extreme emotion can bring you a panic attack. Even being really happy and excited about something can trigger them, so to fight them you do have to learn to 'numb' your brain a bit. I'd be lying to you if I said that it doesn't change who you are socially, mentally, and physically.

After having the upper hand on my panic attack issues for over ten years they have returned with a whole new bag of tricks to try and destroy my mind. I now get numbness in my left arm and cold finger tips with an odd tingling sensation in my chest(near my heart) which makes me fear that it's a heart attack. I also get very light headed and dizzy, and I suffer random migraine-like headaches, I'm more sensitive to light, It's become more difficult to create tears in my eyes and my visions a bit blurred in general, yet I test just fine at the doctor on everything from my heart (ekg), my vision/eyes, to even my blood work being clear and clean.

I'm working very hard right now to get myself in tip top physical condition. I'll see if that changes anything. After that, though, I'll just have to take life and my panic attacks as it comes.

I've had some panic attacks caused by immense stress and they really do feel very bad. But I personally never thought I was gonna die of it, I only thought I wanted to die cos of whatever started it in the first place hehe