Gosh thats horrible. I used to get them before and they are terrifying to deal with. Meditation really helps as does shifting focus to something else... drink water, try to occupy yourself in conversation with someone, tell a joke laugh, do something but try to concentrate on something else. Even taking a walk helps.
I never knew what panic attacks were. I was such a chilled out person during exams. But this one time I had loads of tough classes to take in undergrad and I had back to back exams. In one of the exams I was expecting high or low 90s but the real score was a disaster :D And right after finding score I had another exam for another class and that time I started to get panicky, It was soo severe that I had to leave the hall in the middle of the exam to go out and breath and calm myself.
And since then I get them when I know howmuch the task means to me. I can't help it now. Only I found was to busy myself into anything other than books right before the exam.
Is there any difference between Panic attack and Anxiety attack or are they same
There are whole bunch of Anxiety disorders. Whole wide category depending on the criteria and situation. Panic disorder/attack falls under such as per my understanding but the symptoms for anxiety attack and panic attack are the same. Triggering factor and physiological effects.