Anxiety Attack Dealing

Panic attacks (or anxiety attacks, the terms are interchangeable) are sometimes triggered in response to fear or a stressful situation, but usually there is no detectable trigger. They just happen. The symptoms can be so terrifying that your heart starts pounding, you feel as if you can’t get enough air, and you have pains in the center of your chest that convince you that you’re having a heart attack!

Now that’s scary! Especially in light of the fact that heart disease is the Number 1killer of women over 45!

You’ve probably been anxiety attack dealing for years, and even thinking about anxiety attack dealing brings on feelings of fear and dread. I know about this.

Shopping in crowded stores or malls used to make me crazy! Sometimes the anxiety attack dealing would be so strong that I would ditch my shopping cart right in the middle of an aisle and rush out of the store and go sit in my car until I was calm enough to drive home, unable to face going back in the store to finish my shopping!

I knew I was having a panic attack, but I didn’t know how to do my anxiety attack dealing. Now, I do.

The keys to anxiety attack dealing lie in understanding that you that you don’t have to let them take control of you and knowing how to overcome them.

Whenever you feel the first sign of an oncoming anxiety attack, that fear that you’re in danger or that something bad is going to happen, take charge of it.

Acknowledge that you are having a panic attack, that you’ve had them before. They’ve never killed you or hurt you, and this one won’t either.

Begin deep breathing exercises to ward off hyperventilation and defeat that choking feeling of not being able to take in enough air.

Remind yourself that your racing, pounding heart is merely responding to adrenaline released by your flight response, and actually isn’t harmful to your heart, but acts in much the same way as hard exercise, which is healthy for your heart!

In anxiety attack dealing, find a happy thought, preferably one that will make you laugh, and focus on that. One of my personal favorites is of watching Jurassic Park with my daughter. She had a full glass of milk and when a raptor jumped out she was so badly startled that the milk went up in the air and splashed down on her head! You could also sing a silly song; do math, count or any number of things that draw your attention away from the symptoms.

Keep doing these things until the attack is over and you’re back in control. Don’t be afraid of immediately having another attack. If you do, just remember you survived the last one and you can use the same methods to deal with this one. The ability to defuse the fear that triggers an anxiety attack is your greatest anxiety attack dealing weapon against it. No matter how intense the fear, you can always remind yourself that you’ve defeated it before and you will do it again.

Smacking that fear around like a punching bag and making it pay for all the years of misery it’s piled upon you can is a lot of fun! So instead of letting it deal with you, you can deal with it!

Part of anxiety attack dealing is finding ways to relax. You can see a full list of ways to relieve anxiety by CLICKING HERE.