Short-Term Triggering Causes — Significant personal loss, including an emotional attachment to a romantic partner, life transitions, significant life change, stimulants such as caffeine
Hyperventilation Syndrome — Breathing from your chest may cause overbreathing, exhaling excess carbon dioxide in relation to the amount of oxygen in one's bloodstream. Hyperventilation Syndrome can cause respiratory alkalosis and hypocapnia. This syndrome often involves prominent mouth breathing as well. This causes a cluster of symptoms including rapid heart beat, dizziness, and lightheadedness which can trigger panic attacks.
This results in increased anxiety, and forms a positive feedback loop.
paresthesias (tingling sensations)
derealization, the feeling that nothing is real.
wtf..
realShortcut 1 year ago