How to Help Yourself during a Panic Attack?

 
 

How to Help Yourself during a Panic Attack?
By Joane
Panic attack or anxiety attack can be disabling sometimes and since people with panic attack might lack the knowledge regarding their appropriate action during that phase, may aggravate the condition to its worst. This article focuses on particular area of actions that you can follow to help yourself during a panic attack.

Tell Yourself to Slow Down

Be firm to yourself and tell to calm down slowly. Repeat words comprising of positive actions such as 'I am slowing down', 'I am safe', etc. This is really essential if you want to offer help yourself during a panic attack.

Restructure Your Attention

Try to focus your mind on positive aspects like flower or burning candles. Briefly deliver message to your mind that you are beautiful like a flower and there is a burning candle inside you. It is your responsibility to protect them and you know that you can do it.

Overemphasize on Overreaction

No matter what you have identified as a cause of your panic, tell to yourself that you are simply overreacting, nothing else. Tell to yourself firmly that, "I am simply overreacting. This event will pass out, and I will be safe. There is nothing to fear, nothing to worry at all."

Allow Nature to Work

If you are having panic attack, look through the window. Watch the weather or simply a tree. Try to sense the beauty of nature and the harmony inscribed in it. Divert your mind into something beautiful. Help yourself in a panic attack by sensing the natural aesthetics.

Listen Soft Music

Some people find this as the best way to help oneself in a panic attack. Listen soothing music and sense how music gradually calms you down. Do sense music throughout your body and mind. It really works.

Maintain a Contact Notebook

You must keep a notebook especially for contacting people during your panic attack. This may include the names and contact of your close friends and professionals or support groups. This will really help you during a panic attack. Advance arrangement of expected help diminishes the intensity.

Call a Crisis Line


 
 
 
 
 
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