TW: extreme panic attack. A huge misconception is that panic attacks are ‘just feeling worried’ but they actually involve overwhelming physiological changes that can completely alter your perception and ability to reason. Your brain is causing a flood or stress hormones to be released that cause your body to go into fight or flight, the amygdala takes over and your frontol lobes which are used for rational thinking are essentially turned off for the duration while you are in a state of amygdala