Anne P. Jackson

Relaxation Technique To Stop Panic Attacks

Taking care of panic attacks at home is possible, but be careful not to mistake another serious illness (such as a heart attack) for a panic attack. Know your body and know yourself. If you are a chronic panic attack sufferer you will tend to recognize a panic attack for what it really is better than someone suffering through one for the first time.

The following techniques may help you stop the a panic attack or you may also try this for yourself if you are experiencing the symptoms of a panic attack and are hoping to minimize the effects.

First, relax your shoulders and become conscious of any tension that you may be feeling in your muscles. As silly as it may seem I “internally talk” to myself. I tell my toes to relax and maybe wiggle them then my ankles – moving up my entire body in an attempt to get ecery part of my as relaxed as posible.

Then, with slowly and progressively tense and relax all the large muscle groups. Tighten your left leg with a deep breath in, for example, hold it, then release the leg muscles and the breath. Move on to the other leg. Move up the body, one muscle group at a time.

Try to slow down your breathing. This may best be done blowing out every breath through pursed lips as if blowing out a candle. Also, place your hands on your stomach to feel the rapidity of your breathing. This may allow you to further control your symptoms.

Tell yourself (or someone else if you are trying this technique with someone) that you are not "going crazy." If you are concerned about not being able to breathe, remember that if you are able to talk, you are able to breathe.

While this technique might help you stave off the worst of a panic attack, or get you through a particularly bad one; it won't cure your panic attacks. At best, it will help you through a rough time. Doctors has many “tried and true” drugs to prescribe for panic attacks, but most will leave you drowsy and unable to function at your best. I never liked that feeling of going through my days as if I were in a dense fog. Slow and ponderous is how I term it.

Therapy can also help alleviate panic and even cure panic attacks. But it can take many years for the therapy to get to a point where you can do that. So much of panic attacks is caused by stress. Little stresses and big stresses. You seem to be handling it just fine until one day your first panic attack hits, yet you can pinpoint any one thing that triggered this massive response! That's because there probably ISN'T any ONE thing that is causing it – and that is why therapy can take so long to cure panic attacks.

Joe Barry, a FORMER panic attack sufferer himself, has developed a mechanism to get rid of panic attacks forever – quickly! It's easy to do and it works!

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