Panic attacks and the price?

[happywithchange]

Cognitive behavior therapy. It's the only thing that worked for me. And it changed my life in more ways than panic. You can use the tools you learn in every aspect of life. CBT, find it in your area, and do it!

First figure out what you are so afraid of since it's all fear based. I was afraid of dying because I knew I hadn't been taking care of my self. But I couldn't take care of myself because I was having so many panic attacks and suffering from depression too. Mostly what fixed me was stopping alcohol, exercising, and learning how to notice subconscious thoughts as they enter into conscious thought. And interfering with them.

Force a panic attack on yourself. Get your self all worked up in that nervous state and bring it on. Face that fear. Take it ALL the way. As you are doing this notice every change going on in your physiology. The sweating the heart palpitations and increased pulse the numbing toes and fingers, the dizziness. Watch as each step comes. But picture yourself sitting outside yourself watching it all happen. Something happens when you do that. You are so busy keeping track of what's going on, that you interfere with the process itself. Your distracted and it stops the attack.

It's crazy I know and next to possible for me to explain. IF It even starts to happen to me I jsut laugh at it now. Oh look you are trying to start again. I see you coming. And it stops right there. I own my fear now. Not the other way around.

Whether you think that you can, or think that you can't, you are RIGHT!.

Thought drives action, if you think you are going to have a panic attack, I guarantee you will. What ever you do don't try and rationalize. That doesn't work. You have to interfere. Get in the way. You have to learn to pay attention to the clues the clues of you talking to yourself. It's all just a script in your head that plays over and over again. Re-write the damn script. Insert something into and and practice it until it's second nature.

yes these are the ramblings of a madman. But a madman that hasn't had an attack in 8 months after having them for 10 yrs.