The 18 signs of a panic attack – after Perrie Edwards feared she was dying of a heart attack [Video]

PERRIE Edwards landed in hospital after she suffered a panic attack.

The Little Mix star, 31, said it felt so bad that she believed she might die.

“I thought I was having a heart attack,” the Forget About Us singer explained.

Speaking of her ongoing battle with anxiety on Fearne Cotton’s Happy Place podcast, she continued: “I even asked my mum if she was going to put me in a mental institute at one point.

“Cause it was so bad. And I couldn’t make sense of it all in my head.”

The singer, who launched her solo career earlier this year, said she is now tackling it with the help of a therapist.

So what exactly is a panic attack? And why can they feel so similar to heart attacks?

A panic attack is a sudden wave of overwhelming …