This method has helped me enormously. It really has.

The next time you experience panic/anxiety symptoms,try inserting cold logic into your thought patterns.


Step 1 - you experience the usual frightening symptoms of panic/fear/anxiety

Step 2 - one long,deep breath. reassure yourself with 'ok,you are freaking out because the part of your brain known as the amygdala has injected a dose of adrenaline hormone into your bloodstream. The heart rate increase you are experiencing is a result of this hormone. You are not thinking clearly as a result of this hormone. This is causing you to perceive non-threats as threats.

As opposed to...

Step 1 - you experience the usual frightening symptoms of panic/fear/anxiety

Step 2 - 'help!! What's happening?! I'm losing it!! *hyperventilate*

Try it. Be an icy cold clinician. Do not 'dramatise' the situation. It's adrenaline hormone. Nothing more.