Useful Tips To Stop Anxiety Attacks

By Frederick R. Smith

As most therapists will tell you, one of the keys to making a panic episode controllable is to learn to work your way thru the attack itself. The paralyzing fret that accompanies an acute anxiety or panic fit can be so powerful and intense, attempting to describe these emotions to someone that hasn't experienced them is almost impossible. These are some useful tips to stop panic attacks.

The very first thing you must do is realize you are having an anxiety episode. Although this sounds elemental and nearly unnecessary, the amount of sufferers who think what they are experiencing is something aside from nervousness is sort of large. They may show up at the doctor's office or even the ER making claims to be having a cardiac arrest, stroke, overdose on some stimulant or even anaphylactic shock. Once a sufferer realizes they are indeed having a panic episode, they can accept it and begin to work through it and realize that it will pass.

You should do something physical in order to take your intelligence off the assault, at least for the present. Anything that requires exertion like cleaning, exercise, walking or cooking is extremely profitable and offers a point of concentration other than the attack itself. Physical activity, especially activity that requires effort, releases endorphins. These are mood changing hormones that can calm and relax a sufferer with a sense of euphoria. Physical activity will also cancel any feelings of helplessness that may go with the attack and enfranchise the person by doing something that is productive.

If you have been suffering from anxiety attacks for any period, you have potentially developed a support group. It may be an informal group such as folks, brothers, friends or fellow sufferers ; anyone who understands what you are going through. Reach out to these people for the help and understanding you need at the time. You aren't trying to find pity or perhaps sympathy, just someone you can talk to about and during the attack. If you are someone who is ashamed of their anxiety and has hidden the truth about your suffering from friends and family, it's time to talk to them about the whole experience. Keeping this a secret only makes things worse so seek out someone to confide in, even if it is thru the internet, in a chatroom or forum particularly about nervousness and panic.

Taking medication should be a last resort measure. Since drugs just mask symptoms they often return when the medicine wears off and can actually be more intense. Almost all of the anti-anxiety drugs like Xanax and Klonopin have some pretty heavy complications that you probably wish to avoid by not taking the medicine.

By realizing when you are having an anxiety attack and accepting it for what it is you can then start to calm yourself with exercise. As you start to unwind then is the time to contact a support person to talk about what you are feeling and what is going through your mind. These steps can then become useful tips to stop anxiety attacks.

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