Self-help For stress attacks - How To prevent Attacks By Breaking Your Cycle Of Anxiety.
The best help for symptoms of anxiety attacks is self help. Particularly because a critical factor in fear attacks is your 'fear' of having another one. If you can rid yourself of this fear then you can forestall further tension ( panic ) attacks. Here, you can discover how your fear of another anxiety episode can basically trigger one, and, how you, yourself are the only person who can eliminate that fear and forestall more fear attacks.
As an anxiety sufferer who has experienced the indications of a stress or panics attack, whether or not you are consciously aware or not, you'll be anxious about having another attack. And why wouldn't you? Let us be honest, the symptoms are absolutely scaring aren't they? The totality of all of the symptoms led you to believe you were about to die, so there isn't any way that you would like to go through that again.
Now your 'fear' is a strong force that it has a real effect on your general hysteria. What occurs is that your recurring fear adds to your already higher-than-normal anxiety levels. By doing this your fear raises these levels even higher. They can be raised so high that the strain of a standard everyday event can then push your nervousness way beyond what your body expects.
Your unconscious mind then 'sees' this ( quite wrongly ) as a potentially fatal situation and reacts as it has for millenia ; by priming your mind and body to either fight or run away. We call this the 'fight or flight' response. You see, your unconscious mind can't notice the difference between fact and non-reality. All it knows is that you are in a highly stressed situation. It then takes no chances and assumes you are in danger.
The horrible symptoms you experience are the result of your brain very quickly organizing things to offer you the highest probability of survival. As an example, blood is short-circuited from your stomach to your important muscle collections. Your pupils distend to let in more light so you can see better. Respiring becomes faster for more oxygen. Your heart pumps quicker to deliver the blood quicker. And so on .
So I am hoping you can see now that the indicators of anxiety attacks are just your body's natural reaction to a 'perceived' threat. You are not going o 1000 ff your head, and, you aren't going to die.
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O.K, now let's deal with your fear. You can see from the above that your fear is only 1 part of an 'anxiety cycle' that goes something similar to this panic episode fear increased agitation panic episode fear increased anxiety etc . Your anxiety is feeding off your fear, so that by concentrating on your anxiety alone ( as drug-based meds do by attempting to control your 'mood' ) you aren't addressing the real problem, which is your 'fear' of having more stress attacks.
The key is to remove your fear factor first. This breaks your cycle of hysteria, which in turn prevents agitation attacks, and, then makes it better to address and at last heal your general anxiety.
So how does one get rid of your fear? You have to take back control from your fear and diffuse it. You do this by meeting your fear face-to-face, quite literally. In basic terms you have to be prepared to have an anxiety attack! I know this goes counter to what you'd think but it's what you've got to do. Rather than running away from your fear which amplifies it, you need to embrace it absolutely and diffuse it.
As an example try this at this time : make yourself have an anxiety attack. Nothing occurred right? Okay, try again then. It does not go to occur. Why? As you faced your fear of another attack by attempting to trigger one. In doing so you diminished your fear and so nothing happened.
This is simply a small experiment, and clearly if that's all you had to do, no one would be suffering from panic attacks anymore. Naturally, it is a little more complicated than that, but that gave you an idea of just how successful this is often with the right methodology, like the 'ONE MOVE' technique revealed below.
But even if all you've taken from this report is an awareness that your next anxiety attack will not harm you, then you may have taken a good positive step forward.
