attack of fear

Do you have sudden, severe attacks of fear or anxiety when there is no apparent reason to be afraid?

He stopped chewing as he wrestled with a sudden attack of fear.

I had a sudden attack of fear.

If this was what An'desha's attacks of fear and dread had been about, it was certainly anticlimactic.

Camden has suffered attacks of fear, of racism, of disinvestment, of time.

Besides, he was extremely edgy without knowing why, the truth being that he was having an attack of fear of crowds.

Symptoms of panic disorder include sudden attacks of fear and nervousness, as well as physical symptoms such as sweating and a racing heart.

Luckily, Rafaella seemed willing to stay with her, and she was almost able to convince herself that sudden attacks of fear when she was alone were due to her illness.

Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.

That first night, when she felt the silk of the robe slide down her arms to puddle at her feet and realized that she was almost completely naked beneath, she suffered an attack of fear and modesty acute enough to pierce the drugged fog that shielded her.