Dealing with panic attacks is made much more easy if you have the knowledge.
They say that you can copy better with experience but this is only the same thing as knowledge.
In this article, I'll show you ways to accelerate your coping mechanisms with this condition.
Coping Statements During or even before an attack, coping statements are a very helpful way of keeping them at bay and reassuring yourself that they will pass and will not harm you.
One such example is to repeat "no one has ever died from an anxiety attack" or "this will soon pass".
Even better is to say these statements out loud.
Using such affirmations and hearing them in your own words will help reinforce them and you will believe them, even if you don't at first.
Seize The Day Or Carpe Diem as is said in latin.
This is very important.
Many sufferers of panic attacks worry intensely about many things, including future possibilities of panic attacks.
This, in turn, can lead to more panic attacks in future.
Instead, you should try to focus less on the future and more on the here and now.
Try not to think about "what if" but ask yourself "what is happening now".
Distraction mechanisms can help with this.
The Anxiety Circle Many sufferers of panic attacks experience what is called a "forward feedback loop".
This is when a person experiences a trigger or a small, insignificant symptom.
The anxiety about this then provokes your sympathetic nervous system into exacerbating the symptom and making it worse.
Then you have more anxiety and the cycle repeats.
This is what gives rise to the quickly accelerating symptoms of a panic attack.
Clearly, the ideal cure for panic attacks would be to somehow "break the cycle".
Break The Cycle Instead of just learning to live with panic attacks, the best treatment is to somehow break this anxiety cycle, this forward feedback loop.
The best treatments are those that use behavioral therapy to train you break this cycle very early so that it is impossible to escalate into a panic attack.
There are many specific techniques to do this and they are far more effective than simple coping statements.
They say that you can copy better with experience but this is only the same thing as knowledge.
In this article, I'll show you ways to accelerate your coping mechanisms with this condition.
Coping Statements During or even before an attack, coping statements are a very helpful way of keeping them at bay and reassuring yourself that they will pass and will not harm you.
One such example is to repeat "no one has ever died from an anxiety attack" or "this will soon pass".
Even better is to say these statements out loud.
Using such affirmations and hearing them in your own words will help reinforce them and you will believe them, even if you don't at first.
Seize The Day Or Carpe Diem as is said in latin.
This is very important.
Many sufferers of panic attacks worry intensely about many things, including future possibilities of panic attacks.
This, in turn, can lead to more panic attacks in future.
Instead, you should try to focus less on the future and more on the here and now.
Try not to think about "what if" but ask yourself "what is happening now".
Distraction mechanisms can help with this.
The Anxiety Circle Many sufferers of panic attacks experience what is called a "forward feedback loop".
This is when a person experiences a trigger or a small, insignificant symptom.
The anxiety about this then provokes your sympathetic nervous system into exacerbating the symptom and making it worse.
Then you have more anxiety and the cycle repeats.
This is what gives rise to the quickly accelerating symptoms of a panic attack.
Clearly, the ideal cure for panic attacks would be to somehow "break the cycle".
Break The Cycle Instead of just learning to live with panic attacks, the best treatment is to somehow break this anxiety cycle, this forward feedback loop.
The best treatments are those that use behavioral therapy to train you break this cycle very early so that it is impossible to escalate into a panic attack.
There are many specific techniques to do this and they are far more effective than simple coping statements.
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