They are characterised by the extreme fear of losing control and of being overwhelmed by various circumstances: Panic attacks are sudden, extreme anxiety reactions accompanied by sympathetic nervous system arousal and an overwhelming urge to escape.
I was overwhelmed by the sense of panic".
It immediately triggers the babbling, totally random, borderline incoherent monologues that we spew out when we feel most out of control, when we have totally lost our center and are overwhelmed by the compulsive fear based, panic soaked need to talk and talk and talk until we exhaust ourselves or anyone who has made the unfortunate choice of sitting across from us at our favorite cafe.
It calls for the renunciation of verbal pomp: "He was overwhelmed by a wave of self-loathing, panic and a sense of loss that, in staccato bursts, flushed the air from his lungs till the moisture in his sleep-starved eyes formed a vitreous glaze that mercifully blurred his reflection in the mirror".
In contrast, he argues, the moral panic that periodically arises in response to violent films, like the recent outrage over Hollywood studios' testing R-rated films on children, is really the displaced panic of a numbed culture overwhelmed by the magnitude of real-life horrors.
Rather than offer a solution, the plan got overwhelmed by the dire pronouncements of its architects, which panicked the markets instead of calming them.
The 20 or so Iraqi policemen on hand to seal the crime scene were overwhelmed by thousands of onlookers trampling through and periodically scattering in panic when a siren erupted somewhere.
2. We in the media should cover serial crime without being overwhelmed by it, pulling in leads from alert tipsters without putting out panic and without elevating thugs to antiheroes.
Another technique for calming yourself down when you are feeling overwhelmed by negative memories is to breathe deeply and count your breaths until the memories or feelings of panic start to fade.
Well, if you just followed Jeremy's advice because it matched up with you [feeling] panic and it was a good time to act, the next day, you could be so overwhelmed by remorse that you'll sell.
