Mental Symptoms and thoughts associated with panic attacks

These are the thoughts I have when in the grip of a panic attack - have also been documented as common experience

• I'm going to die
• terror - sense of impending doom - something unimaginably terrible is about to happen
• I'm losing control'
• This will never end
• I'm terrified, really scared
• I'm going to pass out and die
• I'm having a stroke/brain haemorrhage
• I won't be able to get out of here - I'm going to make a scene
• what is happening to me
• I'm going to throw up
• I must have a brain tumour
• I'll choke to death
• I'm going blind
• I'm going to scream, babble, talk funny
• I'm becoming paralysed
• something is really physically wrong with me
• I can't breathe
• no-one understands and no-one can help
• Nothing is real
• Racing thoughts - loud internal dialogue