An attack of anxiety or
fear which triggers the body's fight/flight response.
This can give rise to a number of unpleaseant physichal and mental symptoms.
Contarary to some belief, medication is not needed to "cure" panic attacks.
They stop when you
stop trying to fight them and just accept them and patiently wait for them to end.
Also a healthy
diet, excercise and thinking about other
people/things and not yourself helps greatly. Another thing that helps if you practice it is observing your feelings and not engaging with them.
"Why is she freaking out about every little
thing and why does she think she has a brain
tumor/heart attack"
"Shes having a panic attack"
"hey man how are your panic attacks?"
"I
don't get them anymore, I realised I was just making them worse by worrying about them and trying to fight them, when I stopped doing that and started accepting them they went away in a month"