Natural Treatments for Panic Attacks and Anxiety?

What causes Panic Attacks?

Panic attacks are caused by anxiety. Now, you might ask: “And what is anxiety?” To control your panic attacks you first have to understand how anxiety actually works.

Anxiety

Anxiety is a state of apprehension or fear, the fear could be indeed of something real, but it is as well possible that this fear has no “real” base to stand on, and is based on something imaginary. For the sufferer this doesn’t really matter. The fear and anxiety is there, regardless.

Fear is a very common human emotion and many people experience it at some point in their lives.

However, here is the difference. While fear is common, most people really never had a real panic attack, or extreme anxiety. Often those people dont understand the  nature of such an experience. We know that such serious attacks cause dizziness and blurred vision, shortage of breath, outbursts of cold sweat and much more  - and those are actually very real physical symptoms.

It can happen that the sufferer loses complete control, they think they have a serious illness, or a heart attack or similar condition.

Fight and Flight: Is this was causes the panic attacks?

Many might have heard of the fight/flight response. Often it is given as an explanation and seen as the main cause for panic attacks. Is there a relationship between this response and the experiences sensations people experience if (and after) they have an attack?

Anxiety is a response to a danger. All its effects have one goal: It is helping toward either fighting or fleeing from the danger. The only purpose of anxiety is to protect from harm. Of course, you see the irony in this. If the anxiety itself is seen as that what causes harm, not as that what supposedly is protecting from it.

Those mechanisms of anxiety and fear might be remnants from a long time ago, when we were still more “animals” than actually human beings. But even today, those mechanisms ARE helpful if you need to quickly respond to a threat in a fraction of a second. Anxiety is indeed protecting us from danger, it is a good thing.

With all those experienced symptoms, many might ask if there are ways to actually cure and treat panic attacks, with natural and alternative treatments methods?

Treatments - Approaches. No Drugs needed.

Someone who is cured from panic attacks does not FEAR the panic attacks anymore. The key here is to overcome the (rational or irrational)  fear of the attacks - and this is indeed doable.

There is one interesting approach, and this is to deliberately want to have a panic attack. The “desire” to have one actually makes it harder to actually experience one. And can you have an attack *right now*? No!

If you resist a situation out of fear, the fear will always persist. By avoidance and resistance, the fear will not go away. And one key to actually stop resisting is diving right into the anxiety situation, and by doing this it is unable to persist.

This means that continuous seeking to actually have a panic attack will result in that you cannot have one!

The choice to “have a panic attack” is actually already made, unconsciously, before you actually experience it.

Another method is actually imagining a fearsome situation, and in your mind you totally over-exaggerate every  aspect of this situation, up to the point where the fearsome situation becomes grotesque. You over-exaggerate whatever possible negative outcome you might think could happen, and do feel free to go wild in your fantasy and play through each and any horrible possible scenario, to the point where you might slowly realize that many of those things in reality might hardly occur..

Those two approaches, the “confrontation method” and the “exaggeration method” are two ways to actually overcome and therefore cure panic attacks and anxiety.

You can read more about this topic at A Cure For Panic Attacks and Anxiety.The author of this method developed a natural, sure-fire and very good system to get rid of this condition for good.