A real "panic attack" is an organic form of an anxiety disorder recognized by the professional mental health associates. Under normal circumstances, the brain and body work together to identify a perceived or real threat. Hormones stimulate the adrenal gland to produce adrenalin. With an anxiety disorder, the body produces the hormones that stimulate the production of adrenaline without any real or perceived threat, but the body's "fight or flight" instincts/reflexes are instantly kicked into gear. There is really no way to control the panic attack after it has begun, other than to just sit still, bear it and wait it out. The oversupply of adrenaline essentially overcomes the body's fine motor and critical thinking skills. This is the "flight" part of the disorder. The flip side of the coin is the "fight". This is essentially a rage of a magnitude that most people never experience in a lifetime of getting angry and those who have experienced rage of this order usually experience it only once or twice in a lifetime. For a person with this version of the anxiety disorder, such rage is experienced much more often - as often as weekly. These people are capable of as much destruction of physical objects, including other people, as any adrenalized individual. Treatment of both manifestations of this anxiety disorder is permanent maintenance of daily doses of tranquilizers. As with the "flight" or panic attack malaise, it can be controlled, once started, only by an extreme exertion of will power. In either case, the exertion of will power is only sufficient to essentially self-immobilize the individual. The feeling of panic or rage eventually dissipates as the adrenaline if burned up by the body.