| The best help for anxiety attacks is self help. | | | | I know this is a lot to take in so, if you want to, please |
| Particularly because a critical factor in anxiety attacks | | | | go back over what you've read so far. It is important |
| is your 'fear' of having another one. If you can rid | | | | to get a good grasp before we deal with your fear |
| yourself of this fear then you can prevent further | | | | factor... |
| anxiety (panic) attacks. Here, you'll discover how your | | | | Okay, now let's deal with your fear. You can see from |
| fear of another anxiety attack can actually trigger one, | | | | the above that your fear is only one part of an |
| and, how you, yourself are the only person who can | | | | 'anxiety cycle' that goes something like this >>> |
| eliminate that fear and prevent more anxiety attacks. | | | | anxiety attack >>> fear >>> increased |
| As an anxiety sufferer who has experienced the | | | | anxiety >>> anxiety attack >>> fear |
| symptoms of an anxiety or panic attack, whether you | | | | >>> increased anxiety >>> etc. Your |
| are consciously aware or not, you will be worried | | | | anxiety is feeding off your fear, so that by |
| about having another attack. And why wouldn't you? | | | | concentrating on your anxiety alone (as drug-based |
| Let us be honest, the symptoms are absolutely | | | | meds do by trying to control your 'mood') you aren't |
| terrifying aren't they? The totality of all the symptoms | | | | addressing the real problem, which is your 'fear' of |
| led you to believe you were about to die, so there's no | | | | having more anxiety attacks. |
| way that you wish to go through that again. | | | | The key is to remove your fear factor first. This |
| Now your 'fear' is such a powerful force that it has a | | | | breaks your cycle of anxiety, which in turn prevents |
| real effect on your general anxiety. What happens is | | | | anxiety attacks, and, then makes it easier to address |
| that your constant fear adds to your already | | | | and ultimately cure your general anxiety. |
| higher-than-normal anxiety levels. By doing so your | | | | So how do you get rid of your fear? You must take |
| fear raises these levels even higher. They can be | | | | back control from your fear and diffuse it. You do this |
| raised so high that the stress of a normal everyday | | | | by meeting your fear face-to-face, quite literally. In |
| event can then push your anxiety way beyond what | | | | basic terms you have to be prepared to have an |
| your body expects. | | | | anxiety attack! I know this goes counter to what you |
| Your unconscious mind then 'sees' this (quite wrongly) | | | | would think but it's what you have to do. Instead of |
| as a life-threatening situation and reacts as it has for | | | | running away from your fear which amplifies it, you |
| thousands of years; by priming your mind and body to | | | | must embrace it totally and diffuse it. |
| either fight or run away. We call this the 'fight or flight' | | | | As an example try this right now: make yourself have |
| response. You see, your unconscious mind can't tell the | | | | an anxiety attack. Nothing happened right? Okay, try |
| difference between reality and non-reality. All it knows | | | | again then. It isn't going to happen. Why? Because you |
| is that you're in a highly stressed situation. It then takes | | | | faced your fear of another attack by trying to trigger |
| no chances and assumes you are in danger. | | | | one. In doing so you dissipated your fear and so |
| The horrible symptoms you experience are the result | | | | nothing happened. |
| of your brain very quickly organizing things to give you | | | | This is just a small experiment, and clearly if that's all |
| the best chance of survival. For example, blood is | | | | you had to do, no one would be suffering from anxiety |
| short-circuited from your stomach to your important | | | | attacks anymore. Of course, it's a bit more complex |
| muscle groups. Your pupils dilate to let in more light so | | | | than that, but that gave you an idea of just how |
| you can see better. Breathing becomes faster for | | | | successful this can be with the proper technique, like |
| more oxygen. Your heart pumps faster to deliver the | | | | the 'ONE MOVE' technique outlined below. |
| blood faster. And so on. | | | | But even if all you've taken from this report is a |
| So I hope you can see now that the symptoms of | | | | realization that your next anxiety attack won't harm |
| anxiety attacks are just your body's natural reaction to | | | | you, then you'll have taken a good positive step |
| a 'perceived' threat. You aren't going off your head, | | | | forward. |
| and, you aren't going to die. | | | | |