The symptoms of a panic attack varies from person to person but they include:

• pounding heart
• shortness of breath
• light-headedness
• sweating
• trembling
• nausea
• tingling or numbness of fingers and toes
• an overwhelming sense of impending doom

However, regardless of how scary this sounds panic attacks are not inherently dangerous. Panic attacks are just manifestations of our brain and body being our of sync, and it is a normal physiological fear response. 

Everyone has different triggers to cause a panic attack. Usually it is a stimulus in the environment like a sound that our brain has correlated to something traumatic. Sometimes, a panic attack can be triggered with just a small jolt of caffeine.

Our amygdala sends a distress signal to the ...