Anxiety and panic attacks occurs with most people.
All you need to do is know how to handle it when it overcomes you.
Anxiety comes on when you are worrying about various things happening in your life and are unable to handle it.
You find that you are constantly thinking about situations therefore making yourself tired, depressed and not able to enjoy social outings etc or even life.
To be honest life is too short for these sort of things occurring.
Breathing techniques, medication etc will be able to help but you need to face your symptoms and why it is happening, then you will be able to get the right help for your condition.
The medical fraternity have come to the conclusion that a family history may be behind the anxiety and panic attacks.
Your parents may have been worriers which therefore possibly meant that you grew up in fear and in a anxious environment.
Unfortunately people have various ways to handle anxiety, they consume too much food, drink too much alcohol, smoke like a chimney etc.
just to alleviate the situation.
Abnormal levels of neurotransmitters may be the problem which can effect the types of messages the brain is sending or receiving.
This means the person may be experiencing a fear response from only a mildly stressful situation, and will start to link the mildly stressful situation to that negative experience.
In reality, the brain is just sending the wrong type of message to the body, so the person perceives what is happening to them in the wrong way.
To correct this situation, you may need to change your diet and have a more healthy lifestyle.
You need to control your life in a more healthy way as well i.
e getting enough rest, taking up an exercise regime etc may be the key but at least you are then able to handle life and its stresses.