| You might need therapy mate... maybe your fear of having a panic attack fuels the panic attack - as if your first panic attack was enough of a traumatic experience, or at at least extremely unpleasant, and you might have anxiety as a trigger for panic attacks. What helped me the most was: - recognizing that I'm fine/healthy, like go do a check-up if that's bothering you; - getting used to physiological discomfort, for example exercise (or yoga I think helps as well). Like the concept that having high heart BPM, and high blood pressure, and shortness of breath, becomes familiar to you to the point you don't even be bothered by it... your body will perceive that as you're fine, and that body condition fades away and you become calm and relaxed after it. For example: chest and back pain are usually from shallow breathing, which is recruiting auxiliary muscles. On the other hand your neck/back muscles are probably tense. Basically you need to feel that you're safe in your own body, which is an odd concept the first time you come around it, but in a sense you might be fearful of the reaction of your body to some stressors. The worst part is that it can't just be rationalized, it's probably very hard to try to just solve this through logic, because your body does his own thing when it comes to reacting to emotions, it releases hormones so there's no thinking through that. Even if you have a stressful job (which you should consider if it's the best for you, or at least try to change what's stressing about it), and it can be the source of your anxiety, but panic attack doesn't have to be the outcome, even within that scenario. Above all, if it's has an impact on your day to day, you need to get it checked. |
>- getting used to physiological discomfort, for example exercise (or yoga I think helps as well).
I had to do these two things to get past regular panic attacks. All I did was run every other day for at least 40 minutes and my panic attacks disappeared for over a year... until a few months after I stopped running.
The quality of life difference was substantial. It improved the quality of my work, too.