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Stop Anxiety and Panic Attacks

The Perfect Self-Help Toolkit to Overcome Anxiety Disorder, end Panic and Find Relief and Peace for your Mind

Jennifer Lee

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Congratulations on purchasing your copy of Stop Anxiety and Panic Attacks: The Perfect Self-Help Toolkit to Overcome Anxiety Disorder, end Panic and Find Relief and Peace for your Mind . If you have come this far, chances are you have experienced anxiety, panic disorder, and their related symptoms. Maybe you find yourself overwhelmed by fears that seem out of control. You may find that your thoughts get away from you and take you to dark places, and you are trying to figure out how you can get them under your control.

These symptoms are often highly distressing and uncomfortable. Moreover, they are not helped by the fact that it is often difficult to talk to other people about the panic symptoms if they have not experienced these symptoms themselves. This can lead to a feeling of isolation. Many people believe they are alone in their fears. Some may incorrectly think their condition is unusual, or that there is something wrong with them if they are experiencing anxiety and panic symptoms. Others may convince themselves that panic is a chronic state and that they will suffer from it for the rest of their lives.

This book is designed to counteract these myths. In reality, panic and anxiety symptoms are extremely common and becoming more so. More importantly, these conditions are far from incurable. Millions of people including the author of this book -- have found ways to treat and to overcome their anxiety and panic symptoms, often in ways that are surprisingly simple. In many instances, something as straightforward as a basic change in behavior and thought patterns could substantially diminish even eliminate feelings of anxiety and panic, freeing you to live your full life. This book is designed to give you the tools and information you need to begin the journey toward this result.

Anxiety and panic attacks are a frightening thing! If you are reading this book, the chances are that you already know this probably from direct experience. You know that the physical symptoms of anxiety are often uncomfortable and distressing in themselves shortness of breath, sweaty palms, and a racing heart.

Moreover, in many peoples cases, anxiety and panic symptoms become associated with specific events or situations that we find frightening in them. For people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder , for example a specific kind of anxiety-related mental health disorder anxiety and panic symptoms are often triggered by reminders of an earlier traumatic event. A traumatic event might be best defined as one that deprives a person of their sense of agency and power over their own lives, thereby undermining their sense of self and their basic feeling of security and stability in the world. No wonder people would experience panic in situations that reminded them of such a triggering event!

In other cases, panic symptoms can become associated with different, originally distinct fears and anxiety disorders. For example, people may be afraid of enclosed spaces ( claustrophobia) , open or public spaces ( agoraphobia), public speaking, or feelings of public embarrassment or of humiliating oneself in front of others, which is often referred to as Social Anxiety.

In many cases, however, what people with anxiety or panic disorders come to fear most is simply the panic attack itself. The reason why is easy to understand, and we have already noted it above: A panic attack is scary!

For those who have experienced a full-on panic attack, it is something they do not wish ever to repeat. In many cases, it may seem like the most painful or frightening moment of their lives. Clichd phrases like white-hot terror often take on a new and vivid meaning for people who have been through a panic event.

This is why the specific triggering causes of anxiety or panic episodes tend to change over time. In many cases, a person may first experience anxiety symptoms or a panic attack in a situation they associate with a specific fear shortly before going on stage to deliver a public speech, for example; shortly before flying or riding in an elevator; before a party or having to ride a bus with strangers.

After experiencing the discomfort and distress of a panic event, people will seek to avoid the situation that first triggered the episode. Again, this is a fully understandable and rational response. Any of us would wish to avoid having to even go through such an experience again.

The problem is, however, that as rational as this response may seem, it actually makes ones anxiety symptoms even stronger. For reasons, we will discuss more fully in Chapter 4 of this book, seeking to avoid feelings of anxiety. In fact, it increases the potency of those anxiety symptoms and the likelihood of future panic attacks.

By working with a therapist or other helpers or simply coaching oneself one can cut against the grain of ones fear. By training oneself not to try to resist or avoid ones feeling of panic, one can rediscover and reclaim ones sense of freedom, agency, and personal control over ones emotions. Methods by which to do so will be discussed in depth in Chapters 5 and 6 of this book.

In the meantime, however, living with the fear of panic attacks is no easy task. No one should ever dismiss or downplay how frightening it can be to experience anxiety let alone the acute panic episodes that we describe as panic attacks.