If your panic attacks have left you stuck at home and unable to do everyday activities for fear of another panic attack then…
My system for getting rid of panic attacks for good is based on years of experience with various panic disorder treatments. It is not one thing, rather it is a combination of established methods that will lead you to a panic free life!
How a single moment can progress into your first panic attack and eventually, full blown panic disorder. This will help you understand where it all began.
What common health problems can trigger anxiety attacks and seem like panic disorder, but is not! How this possibly happens.
What isthe first step towards NEVER having a panic attack again.
What other psychological problems could be behind or related to your panic disorder, and how to address them!
What you put yourself at risk for if you don’t address your panic disorder or your panic attacks.
What foods or beverages we take for granted can actually make our attacks worse or more frequent.
What specific things you should discuss with your psychiatrist.
By reading this page, you should gain a good understanding of panic attacks, and what can help this problem. This useful information will help you address your own panic disorder, thus free yourself from the difficult and debilitating life that the disorder has left you with.
Though panic attacks can happen to anyone at any time in their lives, it is most common among younger people. I, for one, fit into this statistic. I was 18 years old when I headed off to college, and I was enjoying every minute of it. I had also gotten a part time job at a nearby convenience store. One day I was walking from my dorm room towards the store when out of nowhere, I suddenly felt extremely overwhelmed. I had no idea what was going on, my heart started beating rapidly and I started sweating. My breathing became staggered andI felt a bit dizzy. I took off my jacket and sad down on a nearby patch of grass. I was able to shake it off that first day. But in the days that followed, it got much worse! I would have sudden feelings of fear, I would feelmy chest start aching, my hands would tingle, I would feel detached from myself, and my breathing would be so staggered that sometimesI felt like I was choking! I simply tried to ignore it. I rationalized that it was just stress and working was a trigger. I had stretched myself too thin for a first year in college. I should take things slow. So first I quit my job because that’s when the first attack happened. Then I stopped going out to see people because I had an attack making my way over to where I was going to meet my friends. I figured I was still just too stressed with school. When I went home for Thanksgiving, I tried to hide it from my family. But having panic attacks is not a secret that is easy to keep, and eventually, my parents and sisters knew that something was wrong. They forced me to see a psychiatrist. Based on my story, she believed that I was having panic attacks and it developed into panic disorder with agoraphobia.
Thus began my seven year journey to treat my panic disorder. With the guide of psychiatrists and doctors, I went through cognitive behavioral therapy, panic-focused psychodynamic therapy, interoceptive therapy, cranial sacral therapy, biofeedback, mindfulness, and SSRIs (anti-depressants). These are the most common therapies psychiatrists recommend for people with panic disorder. But I seemed to be a special case. Nothing was truly helping me. I was still getting panic attacks! I felt hopeless and alone.I felt like I was going insane, that I was losing my grip on things. Situations that never bothered me before were now something to be feared. I hated having to go out in public. I was constantly anxious and thinking and worrying.
I stuck with my doctors advice, though. And through some miracle or maybe with a bit of help of all the therapies, I was able to get through college. School was pretty much the only thing I did that didn’t give me an attack. Going to classes, studying, that was good for me. It was stable. It was safe. I had lost many of my friends, though, and was really quite solitary, save my immediate family. After college, I decided to move back home first. I was 23, and since I had great grades, I was being offered jobs left and right. I knew I couldn’t handle a new place right away, so I decided to take it easy, take it slow… the panic had stopped me in my tracks. Two weeks at home left me bored. Then, my sister said something brilliant. Something that changed everything!! Appealing to my scientific brain, she asked me to really learn about panic disorder, to revisit the treatments I had done and figure out why I think it didn’t work. She was asking me to think the problem through! No one had asked me that before! It seemed so rational! Yet, my feelings had been so irrational for the past five years that it really hadn’t occurred to me at all! So I launched myself into study and research. I would ask my mom to borrow books for me from the library. My psychiatrist would help me get scientific journals on the matter, and I had the ever faithful Internet. My everyday activities turned into study sessions, and in the course of analyzing everything…
I realized that there was a specific way of dealing with panic attacks.
Through my study, I realized that I was doing the wrong thing! I mean, I did need psychological therapy and I did need to practice certain techniques, but these HAVE TO COME IN A SPECIFIC COMBINATION AND WITHNATURAL TREATMENTS! It… Read more…