| People living with panic disorders can effectively | | | | experiencing another anxiety attack and often these |
| overcome their anxieties through an effective panic | | | | concerns can trigger an attack. CBT is a powerful |
| attack therapy known as Cognitive Behaviour Therapy | | | | panic attack therapy using psychological healing |
| (CBT). | | | | techniques known as cognitive therapy. It primarily |
| But first it is important to fully understand what anxiety | | | | deals with a person's thoughts and actions before and |
| attacks are in order to grasp why this method is so | | | | during an anxiety attack in order to overcome the |
| effective. | | | | emotional and behavioural problems. It identifies the |
| Panic attacks come on unexpectedly, they can last | | | | thoughts, events or object s that triggered the attack |
| anywhere up to 15 minutes, in some cases they can | | | | and helps the patient deal with it head on in order to |
| last up to 30 minutes. In a panic attack the person | | | | overcome it rather than relying on medication for this. |
| suffers intense feelings of fear and discomfort. The | | | | You have to understand, that anxiety attacks are |
| Symptoms are: rapid heart beating, severe sweating, | | | | usually self-brought on and not based on reality, they |
| shortness of breath, dizziness, feeling of choking, chest | | | | are triggered by the imagination - what is now known |
| pain, tingling sensations, hot flashes and fear of "dying". | | | | as a "faulty" thought pattern. So when you are afraid, |
| A person however cannot die from an anxiety attack | | | | you are in fact fooling yourself, giving rise to faulty |
| although it may feel like it during one because the | | | | thought patterns that can bring on anxieties, feelings of |
| experience is so traumatic. | | | | insecurity, obsessive doubts and panic. |
| Following an attack a person can live in total fear of | | | | |