panic attacks/anxiety curing anxiety?
hi if you suffer from panic attacks and would like help email me at this addy only anxietycure@hotmail.co.uk
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Comment from julie
Time November 12, 2009 at 6:37 am
Learn in depth about panic and panic disorder/agoraphobia, and you have taken a huge step towards achieving your cure.
We grow up in a culture which teaches us next to nothing about what the panic response really is. No wonder we feel overwhelmed when we experience it first-hand!
Panic – also known as "fight or flight" – is a physiological response for which everybody is "wired" – it has been essential to our survival as a species. Through millions of years of evolution, our bodies were built to easily tolerate the panic response – it is completely harmless to the body and the mind.
A good analogy for the panic response is a fire alarm: its purpose is to insure our protection and survival in the event of an actual fire. It’s loud and unpleasant, but the fire alarm itself is never dangerous.
Similarly, the purpose of the panic response is to insure our protection and survival in the event of a real emergency, when a split-second response could mean the difference between life and death. But the panic response itself is never dangerous.
Fear of panic is at the root of panic disorder. As one really begins to learn that no part of the panic response is ever harmful or dangerous, the fear of panic begins to subside. One is held less and less "in the thrall" of the panic experience.
In his wonderful book Fighting Fear (1985), Dr. Fredric Neuman explains:
"If human beings were immobilized or fell apart physically in the face of overwhelming fear, the race would have died out long ago. Can you imagine a caveman responding to a saber-toothed tiger by falling to the ground with a heart attack or running around out of control? ….you must discover the truth for yourself. When you see finally that the panic attack is not inherently dangerous, you will have achieved the principal goal of treatment."
Many other books include excellent explanations of the nature of panic and panic disorder. Among them are:
Mastery of Your Anxiety and Panic, Client Workbook (2000) by David Barlow and Michelle Craske (see especially chapters 4 and 5);
An End to Panic (1995) by Elke Zuercher-White (see chapters 7 and 9);
The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook (1995) by Edmund Bourne (see chapter 6).
If you are on the healing path yourself, I urge you to take your time to study this material – the concepts may take a while to really ‘sink in’. If reading this material is a trigger for anxiety for you, I beg you to persevere, a little at a time, because understanding and de-mystifying panic is an essential first step. It could be the best ‘study time’ you’ve
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