Panic attac or anxiety? This is two different things. Anxiety is much more less then panic attac .. in our) world we just have panic ATTAC or an anxiety) panic attac is feeling when you are walking and meet a lion in front of you,that is what you feeling in this moment ( fight or run) calls panic attac,without any lions) . Anxiety is different. It is when you feeling anxiety with no reason,just feeling .for example: my husband ( 46 y o ) goes to work,what is he go thru the road on the hi-way, or my child doesn't do his math test. You have to feel a different between anxiety and panic attac. In both helps a psychologist.