If you haven’t been diagnosed as having panic attacks or panic-related anxiety disorder, but think this may be what you are experiencing, speak to a doctor. Don’t self-diagnose. You need to know exactly what it is you are trying to recover from.
The attacks are not harmful, despite the multitude of sensations and symptoms we all experience. We can take back the power by learning to minimise their impact through understanding and accepting how the attacks and the anxiety are being perpetuated.
Understanding is the first step in taking back the power and in working toward recovery.
Recovery is a step-by-step process. If we have been diagnosed as having a panic-related anxiety disorder, the first step is to fully understand the disorder and to accept the diagnosis.
Stress
Everyone experiences stress, and everyone reacts in different ways when they reach their individual threshold to stress. For example, some people will experience high blood pressure, others may develop an ulcer. When we reach the limit of our threshold to stress we experience a panic attack. Our lack of understanding and our reactions of fear and anxiety place us under further stress, and the vicious circle begins. Recovery does not necessarily mean the end of attacks. However, it does mean the end of fear, panic, anxiety and the secondary conditions.
Anxiety disorders are not life-threatening in themselves. It is only our lack of understanding which makes them appear so.
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