panic attack
Example Sentences
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"Him leaving me on the beach sparked a panic attack. It just came over me like a tidal wave. It felt like an out-of-body experience," she says.
From BBC
Irish filmmaker John Kelly, who specializes in animation, had a panic attack on an airplane while going through endless flagged emails.
From MarketWatch
Equities fell again on the bad news, but none of this is a cause for a panic attack.
I was seconds away from what was sure to be an impressive panic attack when Regan snapped her head up.
From Literature
At one point the immersion in words triggered a panic attack, “like I was hearing voices.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
