Damn I just saw this thread. I have had anxiety attacks since very young. I never knew what they were, only that I would act out really violently, not knowing how to release the pain. If it gets bad you get numb, your head hurts, and your heart feels like it is going to stop. you feel like something really really bad is going to happen but you don't know what. At my job people used to fall on the ground and shit and I thought they were trying to get disability because it does not effect me like that. It hits people differently. Martial Arts, starting when I was 10 helped me cope. Working out hard at the gym. I never get them when i am working out like crazy. When I moved back east then came back to cali and started getting bomb weed again panic attacks started. Shrooms make me feel hella hella good but chronic has me on one. Alcohol numbs them. something small like a wine cooler or a beer. I have never taken medication, shit I self medicate and it works for me. I am a female but I have seen the biggest gangstas have panic attacks. Its a trip how people deal with them. A lot of violent shit is because of a panic attack.