| What is the most effective way to stop a panic | | | | occurs within the mid brain. Logically speaking here, |
| attack? This is a question on the minds of so many of | | | | trying to stop a panic attack in the brain by trying to |
| us. Is the answer a simple one? It can be. But there | | | | calm the body with deep breathing, is like trying to stop |
| seems to be far too many "experts" out there who | | | | a sneeze by tying your shoe. Quite frankly, it just lacks |
| are just overly eager to give us an answer, and many | | | | intelligence. |
| of them just don't understand our problem. They just | | | | The fact is that there really are effective techniques to |
| don't know, nor can they ever understand. | | | | stop a panic attack in its tracks, and a better |
| They never feel the surmounting sense of impending | | | | understanding of how this can be done can only come |
| doom that we can feel, that seems to lurk all around | | | | from a fuller knowledge of how panic attacks come |
| us during our most trying times, like some phantom | | | | about. |
| stalker, ready to pounce at any given moment. For | | | | During a panic attack, what actually happens is what's |
| example, they might suggest some technique they | | | | known as the "fight or flight" effect, which is triggered |
| picked up from something they heard from | | | | by a perceived physical threat. This happens in the mid |
| acquaintances, coworkers, or found on the internet, like | | | | brain, which deals with instinctual behavior. During such |
| "deep breathing". Let me dispel this myth right now - | | | | an episode, all of the mental activity in the brain is |
| deep breathing does nothing to stop a panic attack. | | | | rushed from the rational thinking area (known as the |
| This only attempts to calm the body. And as we all | | | | prefrontal cortex), straight to the mid brain, where this |
| know, a panic attack does not originate from under our | | | | effect takes place. Now, as I said, there are ways of |
| skin, nor from within our lungs, but it is an effect that | | | | stopping this dead in its tracks... care to learn more? |