October 4, 2009

How To Stop Panic Attacks

by Riley West

The most important thing that people who are suffering from this hyper anxiety disorder want to know is how to stop panic attacks.

Many of the ways to stop panic attacks don't work for everybody, and a bunch of them are temporary. So far as I know only one method is fast AND natural. More on that later.

You have to wonder…what is a panic attack, anyway? It's your already heightened state of anxiety suddenly turning up intensity, causing all kinds of symptoms from not being able to breathe, red face, sweating, and the fearful feeling that you are not quite "all there.

It's sort of a thought loop, a circle. The oncoming rush of symptoms cause thinking patterns and feelings that contribute to the rush.

The most important one of these is fear. This fear is the key to how to stop panic attacks.

Our "fight or flight" instinct, accompanied by a large rush of adrenaline is the thing that causes us to experience such a high level of discomfort, and, often gives us an urge to run or hide.

We have this instinct for survival built into us at a deep level. As it did our ancestors, it allows us to survive and pass on the adrenaline rush to our progeny. It's all part of the big plan.

But it isn't normal to have a huge rush of anxiety at the thought of a business meeting. Especially a meeting you have been to many times without the panic crises.

And this type of scene is played out by tens of thousands of people per day by people who are stuck in this sort of a self fulfilling prophecy.

You are afraid of the panic attack and you are especially afraid of it in a business meeting. When you get to the meeting…bingo! That's your trigger.

People who aren't stuck in the panic cycle will run into some situation they don't like, and will deal with it, fight or flight. Either they'll run away from it, cope with it, or in some way be stronger than it and take control.

But a person who is stuck, temporarily, with the panic attack, super anxiety disorder will encounter their little fear trigger, which is commonly their fear of a panic attack, and it'll quickly escalate into a full blown fear and panic episode.

As I have said, one of my triggers for an attack was the thought of a business meeting. I was sure I'd have the attack right then and there and that my friends would think I was crazy, or just weird. I wouldn't be able to explain it. The panic attack scared me but I also had a bunch of feelings of embarrassment and bruised ego. That and the nagging thought that I was losing it and might not be able to get it back!

If you want to know how to stop panic attacks you have to get rid of your fear of them, and that can be done fairly easily. I wish I'd have known that when I was having my life wrecked by these horrible periods that just seemed to keep coming. But I didn't. Still I remained determined to get rid of these frightful scenes.

Finally, and quite randomly, I came to the mental positioning it took for me to discard my fear of panic attacks. I did it in about two minutes on one afternoon while stopped at a traffic light. It was as easy as making a simple decision. But it took me six years to get there! What a waste! Still, I did it! And you can do it, too. It just takes a little change in your thought processes at the onset of a panic attack that allows you to stop being afraid of the attacks. That breaks the "spell".

Only you don't have to wait six years! Discover how to stop panic attacks today.

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