Human behavior is dictated by patterns developed by the tactics in our bag of survival instincts (and modeled behaviors) which seem to provide something that works to alleviate our fragilities and insecurities such as fear, pain, worries, etc. Survival instincts only occur due to a fear of pain and death which are the result of inhibited soul life, that is, a loss of connection and/or contact with our spiritual nature and spiritual histories.
The behavior that we have come to call "a panic attack" seems to be the result of a need to A) get perceived "needs" for sympathy or attention, B) to get the conscious mind or "ego" to take a break or shut down so that it can have a chance to reset, to reconnect with the realities of life and the laws of existence. I say this having witnessed and heard stories of said events enough to have noticed a pattern: that they usually happen in close proximity to "loved ones" or people who might understand them; that they rarely happen in the locus of strangers; that they often lead to a peaceful, embarrassing and/or humbling state of re-attachment to the patterns that bring one healing and reduced pain and anxiety. Why we let perceptions of anxiety rise to such levels as to require such extreme actions is something that any person who has learned "panic attacks" as a successful coping mechanism can learn to determine for themselves. My point is that it takes the learning of self-care skills and habits, self-responsibility, and the meeting and regulation of addictions and other deleterious habits to disarm and abandon such "extreme" and infantile habits. (I call them infantile because they are quite like the tantrums, meltdowns, and/or "fits" that we labeled such behaviors in children--which feeds my theory of picking up and/or trying out behaviors we've had modeled to us that seem to work for the role models in our lives.)
