How To Effectively Dealing With Panic Attacks

There are a number of options you may try to use to stop panic attacks or to stop panic attacks from happening. So if you're having multiple panic attacks (or you even have one really scary one), talk to your doctor and get a referral for someone who specializes in anxiety and panic disorders. Panic attacks frequently develop without warning. Panic attacks are often triggered when you are unable to handle the less-intense emotions you experience throughout the day.

A panic attack comes on suddenly, bringing with it short-lived disabling anxiety, fear or discomfort. This can help you come back to your body and control your breathing. But, we still need a way to handle situation-induced panic attacks (like I did with my agoraphobia - the fear of public places) or more importantly, techniques to stop panic attacks as they are occurring.

Becoming unafraid of anxiety attacks is the surest way to stop and prevent them. Founded in 1979, ADAA is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to the prevention, treatment, and cure of anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD, and co-occurring disorders through education, practice, and research.

Others experience panic attacks in an unpredictable way and find that they may even come as a result of unexpected triggers. I assume this is based on personal experience and response time. Learning different ways of coping such as holding your breath, breathing deeply or shaking your head side to side are things that therapists will have you do while you are confronting the situations that trigger attacks.

The Panic Away is a treatment system developed by a former panic attack victim, Barry Joe McDonagh, who went on to study and practice psychology after successfully conquering panic attacks and anxiety in his life. Tell yourself that this feeling will pass and remind yourself of previous attacks that you've lived through.

Keep breathing and feeling your feet connected to the floor or the ground. If you feel able to, it could help to let someone know you've had a panic attack. Those who suffer from panic attacks should seek out help from a mental health professional. This increased respiration rate, or hyperventilation, has been strongly implicated in causing or worsening symptoms of anxiety and panic attacks.

Anxiety is often accompanied by physical changes and behaviors similar to those caused by fear. Panic attacks normally last for 10 or 20 minutes but people can feel anxious or shaken up for some hours after. But it is important to remember that panic and anxiety attacks are NOT an illness in the sense that they do not have a physical cause as with disease.