Anxiety and heart attacks may cause many of the same symptoms, including chest pain or tightness and difficulty breathing. Here's how to get help.

Credit: Shutterstock Simple steps to help you regain control when anxiety takes over A panic attack can feel overwhelming.

Clinical psychologist Dr. Julie Smith advises against common reactions during panic attacks that can worsen the condition.

People report that panic attacks make you feel like your going to die. Your heart races, chest tightens, hands tingle, and overwhelming dread convinces you something catastrophic is happening. Yet ...

Do you experience cramping in your hands and feet when you are panicked? If so, this may be carpopedal spasms—involuntary muscle constriction that can be panic-induced.

The building's maintenance man struggles with panic attacks and anxiety. The apartment building is falling apart, and its superintendent, Maintenance Mike, is nowhere to be found! The group learns ...

I think there is a misapprehension that those of us in the mental-health field who write self-help books do so from a clinical distance and without personal experience with the content that we present ...

"I didn't know what was happening," she said. Pink is marking Mental Health Awareness Month and sharing her story about suffering from "pretty awful panic attacks" when she was in her early 20s. "I ...

Cleveland Cavaliers forward Kevin Love opened up about suffering a panic attack during a game this season -- and how it led to him addressing his mental health -- in an essay published on The Players' ...