Anxiety attacks aren't always hyperventilating and rocking back and forth.
Anxiety attacks can take different forms, such as:
•unpredictable bouts of rage or irritable.
•nit-pickiness (obsessive behavior, which may be apart of OCD), even a hyperventilating to disarray, chaos, or any sort of change.
• fast-talking, stuttering, stumbling over words.
• not talking at all.
•sitting rigid, starting into space, almost seeming "zoned out".
Understanding the way our or others anxiety works can help to decrease the stigma and help to calm a person faster and get them out of that state. These are just few, but it gives an idea of the rang in which attacks can come....