My wife suffered from panic attacks, It started slowly she was feeling stressed but not too bad. She had always been fun loving and care free, it was comming on so slowly that nobody noticed .
One day while she was out she got a terrible panic attack, people called 911 thinking she was having a heart attack(she thought the same as well).
She got some counciling and tried a few meds nothing was really working too well until she tried Paxil. The Paxil had her back to her old self, did'nt make her stoned just made her feel balanced.
She is still on it and is back to feeling "normal".
Paxil may not work for everybody but in her case it works wonders.
Just realize that you are not alone, take the advise of the people here, you WILL get better if you take the proper steps .
Good Luck
