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4 Steps to Control Your Panic Attacks

11 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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Dr. Don Wood teaches a four-step panic attack method: prepare three positive memories beforehand, close your eyes when panic starts, vividly visualize one of them, then open your eyes and name what you see to ground yourself in the present.

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If you suffer from panic attacks, here's a four step process to get it under control in advance. Prepare three positive things that are happening in your life you want to be able to focus on and find these quickly. When a panic attack starts to set in, you then close your eyes. As soon as you close your eyes, you reduce some of the stimulation coming in. Go to the positive thought, start seeing it, feeling it, experiencing it, and as you go through that is then you open your eyes and describe the first thing you see that brings you back into the present.