Controlling Panic Attacks

If you are a person who suffers panic attacks, you will know how each attack can be a terrifying experience.  In many cases you may feel like you are going to die and you may well believe that controlling your attack is something that you can not do without the use of medication.  For a select few, medication may be the only answer, but for almost everyone there are alternatives that, if applied properly, can help to bring your attacks under control and eventually eliminate them altogether.

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Generally speaking, when you are going to have a panic attack, you will know that it is coming.  The sensation can start out as a feeling of anxiousness or nervousness and can quickly escalate into a full blown panic attack.  Worse still, when you perceive the fact that an attack may be coming on, you will very often begin to anticipate the attack.  This anticipation then adds to the fear of the attack and in fact is usually a contributing factor to it.

The symptoms of your panic attack are actually the physical manifestations of your overriding fear and are generally a result of the brain going into the fight or flight mode where it releases a flood of adrenaline to help the body protect itself.  Learning to accept this adrenaline rush for what it is can help the sufferer learn how to take control of the mind and in turn eliminate the panic attacks altogether or at least to turn the situation around and be able to channel the energy into positive action.

Whilst there can be no doubt that these intense physical manifestations can be devastating,  and in many cases disabling, they are controllable as long as the sufferer is willing to put in the work it takes to get them under control.  The first step is learning to recognize the symptoms for what they are; they are the physical representation of what is going on in your mind.  This does not mean that they do not exist; in fact quite the opposite is true.  For the average panic attack sufferer the experience is as real as it gets.

To learn how to cope with a panic attack you must learn to take these feelings and instead of fearing them, take a good inward look at them and welcome them.  Instead of allowing the sensations to make you feel like you are going to die, which you most certainly are not, embrace them like an old friend.  Use the power of these feelings to make you feel more alive than ever. Surely if you can experience these kind of feelings then you must be very much alive and in tune with your body.

You must learn to accept these feelings with the full knowledge that whilst they feel very real they can not hurt you.  In this way, you can say to yourself “If this is the worst thing that ever happens to me, I am going to be just fine.”  By repeating this litany to yourself when you start to feel an attack coming on, you can prepare yourself and be ready to channel the feelings into a positive thought that says ”I am in control”.  When you are able to do this, you can slowly begin to take your life back.

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In the end you are the only person who can help with controlling your panic attacks. Medications can simply make the physical manifestations go away, but they cannot take care of the underlying root cause of the attacks. The root cause must be taken care of before you can successfully learn to take control and be rid of your panic attacks.