anxiety attack?

Earlier I had the feeling of feeling like I was about to cry and I could not stop it no matter how hard I try.  I can't cry as people think that I'm getting angry. But lately, people have been understanding (accept Jason) what an anxiety attack is.  I still don't know what an anxiety attack is or how someone else is triggering me.  It took my SM friend Bekki Winter to help me recognize that Jason was actually triggering me. I wish I could remember what it was about. :'(  I can remember things a long time ago but I can't remember things a short time ago like yesterday, or two weeks ago.  

About the feeling, I was about to cry. I was just getting out of the shower and I was feeling that I was about to cry and I don't know this emotion or feeling!  

I have couple of questions.  Okay, I have a lot of questions.  

1. Do you think I can take care of myself?

2. Do you think I can someday learn to drive? 

3. Do you think I can work someday without having an anxiety attack/panic attack and people thinking that I am angry?  

4. Do you think I can take a class? (i want to learn about anxiety disorders) 

No! I am not okay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What does an anxiety attack feel like?

Anxiety attacks are acute episodes of intense fear that are accompanied by a few or many strong signs and symptoms. Anxiety attack symptoms (panic attack symptoms) can include:

• A feeling of overwhelming fear or impending doom
• Feeling of going crazy or losing control
• Feeling you are in grave danger
• Heightened sense of danger, heightened awareness of danger, increased danger surveillance
• Feeling you might pass out or faint
• A surge of doom and gloom
• An urgency to escape
• Dizziness
• Heart Palpitations, pounding heart, or racing or accelerated heart
• Headache, pounding head, or flushed head feeling
• Trembling or shaking
• Sweating
• Shortness of breath, feel like you are smothering
• Chest pressure, pain, discomfort, or fullness feeling
• Turning pale
• Feeling detached from reality
• Tense muscles, muscle pain and stiffness
• Dissociation (feel like things are surreal, dreamlike, out-of-body like)
• Feel weird, suddenly confused, difficulty thinking straight
• Irrational and confused thinking
• Feel like you can’t free your mind from the fear
• Weak in the knees
• Burning skin
• Pins and needles
• Hot and cold flushes
• Numbness and tingling sensations - Paresthesia
• Feeling shaky
• Nausea, stomach, or abdominal cramping, discomfort, or distress

The above anxiety attack symptoms can be accompanied by:

• Choking sensation, tightening throat, it feels like your throat is closing, it feels like something is stuck in your throat
• Confusion
• Depersonalization (feeling detached from reality, separate from one-self, separate from normal emotions)
• Derealization (feeling unreal, in a dream-like state)
• Dizziness, lightheadedness, unsteadiness
• Dry mouth
• Emotional distress
• Emotional upset
• Inability to calm yourself down
• Knot in the stomach, tight stomach
• Panicky feeling
• Pounding, racing heart
• Butterflies in the stomach
• Sudden urge to go to the bathroom (urinate, defecate)
• Vomiting
• Feel like crying