http://conqueranxietypanicattacks.com/does-anyone-else-have-bad-panic-attacks To help suffers of anxiety panic attacks Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:44:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://conqueranxietypanicattacks.com/does-anyone-else-have-bad-panic-attacks/comment-page-1#comment-7082 Ryder Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:25:37 +0000 http://conqueranxietypanicattacks.com/does-anyone-else-have-bad-panic-attacks/#comment-7082 I'm sorry to hear this - panic attacks are one of the most frightening things you can go through. The good news is that a large percentage of the population will experience at least one panic attack in their life, so you are by no means alone. I used to have really bad and frequent panic attacks. They started last year because someone I knew died (young and seemingly healthy). Then every time I thought of death - by reading the news, or thinking about illness... basically anything that could be related to less-than-perfect health - I got another one. This happened multiple times a day. Luckily after a few months they started to slow down, so now they barely happen. I did go to a counselling session to learn what to do in order to counteract the panic attack: 1. Sit up straight in a chair, in a normal seating position. Imagine your lungs extend down to your groin. 2. Breathe in very slowly for six counts. 3. Pause for a long moment. 4. Breathe out very slowly for eight counts. 5. Pause for a long moment, and then repeat steps 2-5. This can be effective, but at other times it doesn't work. The best therapy for me is to watch a fun movie (Back To The Future or Weird Science always works for me) to take my mind of whatever is causing me to panic - and I find I calm down within minutes. Good luck! I’m sorry to hear this – panic attacks are one of the most frightening things you can go through. The good news is that a large percentage of the population will experience at least one panic attack in their life, so you are by no means alone.
I used to have really bad and frequent panic attacks. They started last year because someone I knew died (young and seemingly healthy). Then every time I thought of death – by reading the news, or thinking about illness… basically anything that could be related to less-than-perfect health – I got another one. This happened multiple times a day.
Luckily after a few months they started to slow down, so now they barely happen. I did go to a counselling session to learn what to do in order to counteract the panic attack:
1. Sit up straight in a chair, in a normal seating position. Imagine your lungs extend down to your groin.
2. Breathe in very slowly for six counts.
3. Pause for a long moment.
4. Breathe out very slowly for eight counts.
5. Pause for a long moment, and then repeat steps 2-5.
This can be effective, but at other times it doesn’t work.
The best therapy for me is to watch a fun movie (Back To The Future or Weird Science always works for me) to take my mind of whatever is causing me to panic – and I find I calm down within minutes. Good luck!

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