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Panic Fear I Sudden Strong Feeling Prevents Reasonable

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A sudden strong feeling of fear that prevents reasonable thought and action. To feel or be overcome by panic.
I felt a wave of panic-- butterflies in my stomach and a tremendous urge to get up and run away.
The fire caused a panic in the building.
She panics whenever she has to give a speech.
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes, I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, panic, and fear inherent in a human situation.

Tags: 3.29, vipassana

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