How to handle anxiety and panic attacks 47 Articles

by Carl Harris

I have completely healed from obsessions; phobias; panic attacks; disgust attacks; rage attacks and severe depression. I struggled with these illnesses between the ages of 15 and 42 and they got progressively more complex...read more

by Mark Sichel

How to Handle Anxiety & Panic Attacks When we succumb to anxiety or panic, we succumb to many different forms of erroneous and fatalistic thinking. What we need to do when our minds start playing tricks on us, possibl...read more

by S.A.Robb

Anxiety disorders are one of the fastest growing psychological disorders. They are being diagnosed more and more each day. I myself suffer from Panic Disorder and borderline Agoraphobia at times. I have battled them for ...read more

by Zoe Mack

Panic attacks are both terrifying and embarrassing. If you suffer from panic attacks, you know the impact they can have on your life. There is hope, though; with the right kind of effort, you can learn how to take control ...read more

by Angie Lewis

Have you ever felt panicky and afraid? Your breathing becomes erratic and your heart beats in flutters and moves about wildly in your chest. It feels like you might be having a heart attack. It's probably not a heart atta...read more

by Kaydine Rose

Anxiety and panic attacks are very frightening and very real. They cause physical symptoms that the sufferer may think means they are going crazy or dying. I know from experience that these conditions are very scary and ...read more

by Sunnysmiles

A few years ago I woke up in the middle of the night with chest pains and I couldn't breath, I was hyper-ventilating and felt dizzy and scared. My first thoughts was that I was having a heart attack. I could feel my hear...read more

by Jules Red

To some extent everybody has moments of anxiety. From a slight twinge caused by seeing a spider scuttling across the floor to a person imprisoned in their home by agoraphobia, anxiety is universally unpleasant. Whether y...read more

by Elizabeth Mayforth

The very first time I can remember that I had symptoms of General Anxiety Disorder and Panic Disorder was in my teenage years, 15 to be exact. My parents summed it up to teenage angst and sent me to a Christian therapist ...read more

by Karen Hastings

If you are an anxiety sufferer, I am sure that you will have read plenty of literature, on and off the internet about what anxiety is, what causes anxiety, what anxiety symptoms are and also information about the current a...read more

by Jane Dee

A full-on panic attack will scare the living daylights out of you. Adrenaline will be released into your bloodstream as part of the 'fight or flight' syndrome - a natural response mechanism to help us either flee from dang...read more

by Theodore Herazy

Words are critically important in the practice of energy psychology. More so than traditional medical psychology, where ideas and thoughts are often inferences and generalizations where one word can be used as a substitu...read more

by Tonic

One of many effective ways to "handle" anxiety and panic attacks is to simply be present with it. There really isn't much handling going on when the intense feelings of fright, compression in the chest, and tightness in th...read more

by Janet Harris

First of all, I must emphasise that I am not a doctor, I have no medical training at all, but I DO know something about panic attacks because I have been suffering from them for over 20 years. I like to think that I have ...read more

by Rachelle de Bretagne

The reason that I am writing this is because it is advice that I have given many many friends and I know that it works. The principle is simple. Your subconscious has a lot of stuff in it that creates dreams, thoughts, day...read more

by yackity yack

Panic attacks manifest as a physical condition regardless of it's source or cause. So, panic attacks should be treated like a physical condition as well as a psychological one. A true panic attack is an involuntary b...read more

by Jennifer Atkins

Panic attacks is what they said I had. Who knows. All I know is that I went to a secluded area in the woods with 2 friends to play in the mud with her truck. I'm not sure what happened or how it came to happen but all of a...read more

by Brittany Murrietta

My palms feel clammy, my heart starts dashing, eyes begin aching, the room grows hot, and I feel fatigued, as my breathing grows unsteady causing me to hyperventilate-this copious amount of stress is piled on me has driven...read more

by Valerie Therese

Anxiety or panic attacks are much more common than those experiencing said attacks usually realize. Everyone has these feelings to some degree or another; they represent the voice of your spirit; they are the chemical mes...read more

by Melissa Rathbun

Generalized Anxiety Disorder I have lived with Generalized Anxiety Disorder for thirteen years. I started having what Doctors call "Panic Attacks" back in 1993. It all happened one night when I laid down to go to slee...read more