panic attack

English

Noun

panic attack (plural panic attacks)

1. A sudden period of intense anxiety, mounting physiological arousal, fear, stomach problems and discomfort that are associated with a variety of somatic and cognitive symptoms.

   There was a client who was critical of me a few weeks back and it set off a panic attack.

   • 2021, Dr Philippa Kaye, Doctors Get Cancer Too, Vie Books, page 33:

     I think I had a panic attack last night, a sense of rising panic and impending doom – chest tight, short of breath, shaking.

Translations

sudden period of intense anxiety

• Afrikaans: paniekaanval
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: atac de pànic m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 驚恐發作／惊恐发作 (jīngkǒng fāzuò)

• Czech: záchvat paniky m
• Danish: panikanfald n
• Dutch: paniekaanval (nl) m
• Finnish: paniikkikohtaus (fi)
• French: crise d’angoisse f, crise de panique f
• German: Panikattacke (de) f, Panikanfall m
• Greek: κρίση πανικού (el) f (krísi panikoú)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: pánikroham (hu)
• Icelandic: felmtursröskun
• Italian: attacco di panico m
• Japanese: パニック発作 (panikku-hossa)
• Kazakh: үрей шабуыл (ürei şabuyl)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: panikkanfall n

  Nynorsk: panikkanfall n

• Polish: atak paniki m
• Portuguese: ataque de pânico m crise de pânico f
• Romanian: atac de panică n
• Russian: паниче́ская ата́ка (ru) f (paničéskaja atáka)
• Spanish: ataque de pánico m
• Swedish: panikattack (sv) c
• Turkish: panik atak (tr)
• Ukrainian: пані́чна ата́ка f (paníčna atáka)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

See also

• panic disorder