Dr. Don Wood explains that panic attacks build for up to an hour before you notice them, so waiting to respond is too late. The strategy: recognize early signs like a racing heart, let the adrenaline flow without adding fear, and practice riding it out rather than panicking about the panic.
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Once a panic attack starts, it's too late to start trying to decide what to do about it. So the secret is, when you have a panic attack, it comes on instantly. But what you don't know is that it was starting to build during that hour, up to an hour before. So what happens is you start to then feel the panic attack. It's already built. So it's already starting. The best thing to do is to actually start fixing it before a panic attack happens. So a lot of people don't know what to do. It's because they didn't plan for it. So they know they have panic attacks, but they didn't have a strategy. The key is to have a strategy during a panic attack. Now, the best thing to do is to stop the panic attacks before they start. But if you haven't figured out how to do that, and we can help you with that, You need to know what's going to happen during a panic attack. So your heart starts racing, your breathing gets shallow, those are all the signs of a panic attack. So what you need to do is know what to do before that happens. So it's really coming up with a strategy beforehand. And the strategy is this. One, you need to just get through the panic attack. So as you feel fear, more fear builds. That's going to accentuate the panic attack. You're going to feel it even more because you're feeling fear. So it's not easy to do, but you have to train your mind to then start releasing— it's adrenaline that's surging because the mind is and the brain are in panic. So just get And then you will develop that technique of getting through it and not panicking. So it's hard to do, but you can do it. Just allow it to flow. Just get through it. It won't last very long, but it will last longer if you panic. So just get through the panic attack, and there it is.