Self Help For Panic Attacks - Learning To Make Panic Fade Away
Though friends can be helpful when you're going through any sort of a difficult period, they can't totally cure your panic attacks.
The medical community can be helpful in taking the edge off of intense panic attacks, but the only true cure for them lies inside of you.
In this article, we will explain why this is true and how to make panic fade away.
No one knows except you when you don't feel well.
When something is disturbing you, obviously the first one to know about it is you.
Even more pertinent to panic attacks is the fact you are the only one who can react to the stimuli you experience.
No one else can react to whatever is disturbing you.
For this reason, the only true cure for your panic attacks is using self-help methods.
The progression of a panic attack is as follows: · You imagine or realize something upsetting has happened · You react to this by tightening up · You try to recoil from the frightening feeling · Because of this, unpleasant physical sensations occur · These sensations alarm you · You strengthen your resolve to fight them off · While doing so you tighten up even more · This tightening up brings more disquieting feelings · These intensified feelings stop your current activity · This causes you to recoil more · This allows the anxiety to overwhelm you The key to overcoming panic attacks is learning how to react to the original stimulus which started the progression of panic in motion.
By using the following progression as your guide, you will render panic powerless.
· You imagine or realize something upsetting has happened · You react to this by tightening up · You understand what is happening to you is minor and temporary · You make up your mind, you will let this episode run its course without tightening up · You physically relax your body · You totally accept whatever happens to you · You examine your feelings and try to intensify them · As this happens, you feel the episode start to fade · You try to bring back these feelings · You try to make these feelings worse · Gradually, you find the episode has passed Of course, practice makes perfect and Rome wasn't built in a day, but by following the proceeding method, you will find panic attacks simply can't live.
First of all, they thrive on fear of the unknown and secondly, they need you to be running from them in order for them to become intimidating.
Your willingness to accept them will intimidate them instead and this will send them running out of your life forever.