Overcoming Anxiety Attack Symptoms

>офис обзавежданеng an attack is the same for everyone, regardless of who you may or may not be with, so the suggestions in my other self help anxiety articles about what to do during one should be of equal help to you, too.

As you begin to develop your own successful ways of averting and dealing with attacks, your fear will begin to recede. But until that time, you may want to have some additional support. Having identified those friends, relatives and colleagues with whom you feel confident, you are now in a position to ask them for some direct support if you haven’t done so already.

True friends are only too willing to help in times of distress. Talk to them about your attacks and ask them if you could call on them if you ever need to. Just knowing they would be there at the end of a phone if you wanted to call might be enough to allay some of your fears. I occasionally used to telephone my sister during an attack. I could barely speak, so I just asked her to talk away for a few minutes. Hearing her voice while she went on about what she’d had for dinner and what work had been like brought a sense of calm and ‘normality’ to me. The familiarity of it all seemed to ground me again. There is more about the role of relatives and friends in a future article, but certainly if you think this would help you go through your next attack then do it. Use the opportunity of that support to really go in to the attack, to accept and flow with it. Whoever is acting as your support will not be the answer to your attacks, and you have to be careful not to think of their help in that way. But they can be a support to you while you learn how to handle your attacks more positively.

If it is inconvenient for you to phone during an attack, you could ask someone to do a tape recording for you, either reading aloud a relaxation exercise or just speaking reassuring words to you. You can then play it back during an attack. You could also try recording your own affirmations, spoken in a firm, positive voice and saying those things which you know would be helpful to hear when you’re going through one. Also, physical reassurance might be important to you. If so, you could try squeezing a cushion or pillow. It’s not quite the same as having a hand to hold, but it is soft and comforting and it might help. Try it.

At the end of the day, all of us are alone in handling our panic attacks, even if we are with other people.

Take comfort from knowing that all of us are alone, not just you, and therefore paradoxically we are all together.

Since you now understand the attacks better and know no harm will come to you, there is nothing special to fear about having an attack on your own.

There are lots of benefits to living on your own in learning about your panic attacks and how to handle them. It’s up to you to see the opportunities it presents and to use them.

It is all right to ask for support from friends and relatives. Good ones will give it willingly.