What is a panic attack? When you experience a panic attack it is your "fight or flight" instincts that are coming to show.
Every living being on this planet has one primary purpose; Survival.
Everything we do and every action we take is on a subconscious state, based on helping our Survival of ourselves and our family.
This is why we are able to feel fear and fright.
To help very quickly decide what is good for us and what we should stay away from.
The problem begins in that moment when you associate bad feelings with good things.
This association happens all the time and is mostly unattended.
Let me give you an example; I was about 5 years old and I almost got suffocated in a fish bone.
It was a very traumatic experience.
Mostly because I was so young I guess.
I couldn't fully understand what was happening to me.
And why eating fish had such horrible consequences.
Before the fish bone incident I loved fish.
Everything from fish sticks to smoked salmon.
But after this incident my mind associate the sensation and taste of eating fish with suffocation.
There should go over ten years before I ate fish again.
I couldn't stand the taste.
Why am I telling you this? If you are having panic attacks or severe anxiety there are probably underlying reasons for this.
And changes are big that you are not aware of the real reasons something or someplace makes you uncomfortable.
Our brain is very advanced.
Sometimes it's so advanced it's messing up.
If you've ever had a traumatic experience such as a panic attack, your brain will associate things, places and even people with that attack.
Even if the reason has nothing at all to do with these things.
How a panic attack feels? When someone experience a panic attack there is no doubt that something is wrong.
Many describe it as "I thought I was about to die".
Your heart starts pounding like a race horses and you start to sweat, maybe you feel dizzy and you most certainly feel overwhelming fear.
Paralyzing fear is often used to describe panic attacks.
How to deal with a panic attack? The real problem with panic attacks is seldom the attack itself but rather the fear of the attack.
The way to deal with anxiety and panic attacks is to get rid of the fear of having them.
I bet you can recall many occasions where you were afraid that something should happen and you spend a lot of energy thinking about that.
Even though it was completely irrelevant and you would have been better of being in the now and dealing with the situation if it would be necessary.
Can you do anything to prevent panic attacks? First of all you must really understand that panic attacks are a state of mind you yourself are causing.
The only really way to prevent them is if you don't care.
The fear is creating anxiety which could ultimately lead to panic attacks.
So what can you do to prevent it? Meditation is always a good idea.
And way healthier than any medication you could or are taking.
But is it not the answer.
Meditation can help you relax but it will not take the fear away.