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.

From The Wall Street Journal

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 The Wall Street Journal