Anyone who’s ever suffered a panic attack or a severe anxiety episode knows the extreme distress it causes, both physical and psychological.  The fear can seem overwhelming and the physical sensations that go with it make many people think that they’re going to die.

they’re convinced they’re trapped and would do anything to find release from their fear.

Even worse is living with the fear that another episode of panic might suddenly come out of nowhere.

That fear can lead people suffering from panic attacks to gradually withdraw from situations where they might be embarrassed or at risk if an attack occurred. 

Gradually their life constricts around them.

Obviously people in this situation want relief. 

When they try to find help from a health care professional that help often comes in the form of a pill.  There’s no doubt that {drugsmedications} are useful, especially in the short term.  However, ideally they are only temporary measure, something to ease the symptoms while the underlying cause is addressed.

A Mistake You’ll Know To Avoid

Since anxiety attacks feel so powerful, sufferers automatically assume that these feelings and the experience of a panic attack are something they need to fight against.

This is very understandable.  The bodily reaction that drives a panic attack is the fight or flight response - the response that prepares us to respond to physical danger by either fighting for our life or running like crazy. 

The bodily reaction is getting us ready us for to defend our very existance, so naturally we feel like we should fight.

However with panic attacks, that’s exactly the wrong way to react.  By fighting against them, we’re strengthening them.

How To Escape This Trap

The trick that allows you to over come panic attacks is to go with their flow, even challenge them to do their worst.

That may seem too easy.  Or perhaps it seems simplistic.

The key is that with a panic attack, nothing bad happens.

If you’re attacked by a dangerous animal and do nothing, you’ll die.

On ther other hand, if you do nothing when a panic attack strikes, you’ll still be alive at the end of it.  The sense of danger insn’t based on anything real. It’s a paper tiger.

The way to see that is to open yourself to the the panic attack and all the sensations that go with it and even welcome them.  Dare them to do their worst.  It’s scary when you start, but less so as you do it more often.

What many people find is that this actually leads to the symptoms subsiding, sometimes almost immediately.  As the saying goes “What we resist persists”.  Accept a panic attack for what it is and it loses its power.

Although this approach is simple and effective, it doesn’t come automatically.  Practice and coaching help to become proficient at it.  But the start is just knowing that the risk from a panic attack is more illusion than real.

If you want to find out more about anxiety attacks Panic Attack Release is a great site.

And there’s a good review of a product that teaches this type approach at Panic Away Review

As Dorthy found out when she got to Oz, illusions can seem more powerful than they really are.

You can find out about a great way to get beyond Panic Attacks by clicking that link.