How to Stop Anxiety Attacks Naturally - 3 Top Tips to Stop Anxiety Attacks From Ruining Your Life
By: John Cielo
Submitted: 2010-08-17 05:45:13 | Word Count: 480
Anxiety attacks (sometimes also called panic attacks) can happen anytime, anywhere, and sometimes without any warning. Because of this the symptoms that you experience can be very, very frightening. And once having suffered one attack, the fear and dread of having another raises your anxiety levels even further, resulting in even more attacks.
The medical profession usually prescribes drugs to help control your general anxiety and associated anxiety attacks. Now whilst these can work for many people (but certainly not all) they can have some serious side effects, including dependency issues. And, they only address the symptoms, so that once you're off them there's no guarantee that your anxiety attacks won't return.
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Here are 3 tips to help you stop your anxiety attacks without medication...
1. Bear in mind that anxiety or panic attacks cannot harm you, and although you may feel as though you're about to die during one, you aren't. It is a medical fact that panic attacks cannot do you any harm.
2. At the first sign of an attack consciously remember the above, then start to regularise your breathing which, during an attack, is short and rapid. Breath slowly, regularly and deeply, in through the nose, then out the mouth. Re-breathing into a paper bag can also help a great deal in re-balancing your oxygen / carbon dioxide ratio.
3. Stop thinking about your symptoms, rather, focus externally on physical things around you. Focus on people, buildings, trees, cars; anything but your symptoms. Look at colors, details, etc. Also, if you're with someone, tell them what is happening, but that you know it's an anxiety attack, and, you know for sure that you aren't in any danger; you'll come to no harm.
These are three very simple techniques to help you stop your anxiety attacks, or at the very least to shorten their length and intensity. And over time you'll see that you are able to decrease these two elements even further.
Now these tips can certainly help you at the onset of an attack and during one, but in order to stop or prevent anxiety attacks all together, you need to address one very critical issue, and that is your ongoing fear, or dread, of having another attack. You see this fear (unconscious or conscious) can actually trigger an attack itself because it builds on your already high anxiety levels. You're in a vicious anxiety cycle.
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