What is the difference between an anxiety attack and panic attack?

Panic attacks and anxiety attacks may feel similar to some people since they share a lot of physical and emotional symptoms. Panic Attack: This condition comes suddenly to a person, without any warnings and without any reasons. It involves intense and often overwhelming fear. In response to this attack, several physical symptoms like a racing heartbeat, shortness of breath, or nausea may occur. Most often, people who have had this terrible experience, are usually with a view that during the attack they had felt as if they are losing control of themselves, or are about to die. Unexpected panic attacks occur without an obvious cause. Expected panic attacks are “cued” by external stressors, such as phobias. Panic attacks can happen to anyone, but having more than one may be a sign of panic disorder. Anxiety Attack: This condition is associated with the affected person's feeling of anxiousness. Anxiety is a part of everyone's day-to-day life, and is associated with all possible events and instances. This kind of feeling is dominant in people who often lead a stressful life. However, this same feeling might raise serious concerns and worries, if it begins to jeopardize day-to-day activities and relationships with others. When a person is so wrapped up with anxiety that he finds no way out for enjoying life, it should be best to get a professional help. You can refer to this photo for a graph of comparison of panic and anxiety attack symptoms: https://imgur.com/a/rpXWtGS Sources: https://tinyurl.com/y724dcuf & https://tinyurl.com/yb7s46k7

Anxiety and panic attacks are the same thing. They are just cause by two different things. They are two in the same.

Anxiety is a prolonged sense of dread that occurs in different situations. It can manifest physically as well as mentally. It can be present throughout someone's day/night and can be exacerbated in specific settings. Often times, there is a trigger which will bring it about. The human mind is primed to keep itself safe and if the brain is triggered, it can go into a fight/flight/freeze mode and with that can come anxiety. If a brain feels a constant sense of threat, anxiety becomes a part of daily living. Now, a panic attack is short lived, and people will experience them in response to a sensory/cognitive input that they receive. It can manifest for minutes and will subside within minutes. People may experience elevated heart rates, faster breathing, sweating, faintness or even a sense of nausea or being overwhelmed. Through psycho education, awareness of one's self can grow and thus a person can learn how to be mentally healthy and mindful of how to manage the ins and outs of stressors and triggers.