Stop Thinking I’m Having Anxiety and Panic Attacks

Are you sometimes suffering from fearful thoughts? Thoughts you are unable to get out of your mind. Thoughts about a certain body sensation that worries you, or fear of losing control, or never being free of anxiety. Anxious thoughts that flash briefly in your mind and as they do, you react with fear while you dwell on them. The thoughts send shock waves through your nervous system, and are felt most intensely in your stomach.

And because of the intense body reactions to the thoughts you examine the thoughts over and over again. The reaction out of fear increases the intensity and in turn creates more waves of anxiety throughout your body. A cycle of anxious thoughts. Because of this cycle you might spend the rest of the day thinking about these thought attacks you are experiencing. Questions pop in your mind: “Why am I thinking this?”, “Why can’t I get rid of this strange feeling?” And the more you try not to think about it the more you do and become upset.

What you are likely experiencing are anxiety or panic attacks. This frequent experience of anxiety or panic has a sneaky way of planting doubt whether your fears are rational or not. Whenever these attacks come the pattern is usually quite predictable.

And there are some techniques you can use to overcome them. When you feel a panic attack starting, the first thing you need to do is acknowledge its presence. When they start, don’t try to force them away. Instead let them come in and become comfortable with them. By changing your reaction, you are ridding yourself of these thoughts.This will allow your mind to start taking control instead of letting the fear response take over completely. By acknowledging its presence, you are asserting some power — something that many panic attack sufferers have difficulty doing.

Once you go about treating them in a different way, you also change the way they affect you. Everybody experiences thoughts like this on occasion, but the difference is, most people see them as fleeting thoughts and ignore them and they go away. Anxious persons however react in a different way and these thoughts start a cycle of fear in them. But they don’t have to. There are effective ways to overcome this problem.

James Trebor