4 Simple Anxiety Attack Treatment Techniques

Learning these simple anxiety attack treatment techniques will ensure that your panic attack will last no more than three minutes. Simply understand how this works, and you may never have a panic attack again again.

A panic attack begins when adrenaline is released into your bloodstream. A message of fear sends a signal to the adrenal glands that there might be an emergency.

The adrenal glands are filled with adrenaline that, when released into your body, gives you heightened abilities to respond to emergency situations but can also induce physical signs that sufferers of panic attacks might misinterpret as a heart attack or some other serious physical conditions.

Within 3 minutes your adrenal glands will fill your entire body with the adrenaline response. Therefore if you stop a panic attack as soon as it starts, the reaction need only last for three minutes at the most.

Learn these four simple steps and your panic attack will only last for three minutes.

1. The Art of relaxing.

2. Stop Negative Thinking.

3. Learn how to use coping statements.

4. Accept your feelings.

1. Learn how to Relax:

Relax by taking slow, deep, complete breaths. Steady yourself by remembering that you are only having a panic attack not as life-threatening incidence as it may seem. Continue to take slow, deep, complete breaths. Slow, deep, complete breaths will help you relax, which is the first step to reversing the release of adrenaline.

2. Break the negative thought flow

Eliminate negative patterns of thought by shouting the word “STOP!!!” really loud inside your head. By shouting the word “STOP” you are interrupting the emergency message that your brain is sending to your adrenal glands. Sometimes, panic attack sufferers get into a pattern repeating the same doom-laden thoughts endlessly in their head. Interrupting this endless loop gives you the chance to replace the scary message with a calming one.

3. Learn how to use coping statements

A coping statement is a positive statement that is at least as strong as the statements of doom that you have been scaring yourself with. Replace the negative thought with a positive one. Choose a statement that addresses the negative thought.

For instance, if you feel fear when you hear footsteps behind you on the street try saying, “I’ve walked down this street hundreds of times” or, “I come this way all the time when I come home from work; what I hear behind me is someone else who is walking home from work.”

4. Accept the way you feel

Accepting your feelings is crucial. Minimizing this experience generally will only perpetuate it. Remember to first isolate the emotion you are experiencing. Generally, panic attacks are sparked by the emotion of fear or some variation of fear. Its not too late to become exactly who you want to be.