Dealing With Anxiety and Panic Attacks

1. Clean up your environment. Your environment is the most important thing. If you are in a stressful environment, such as parents fighting or yelling in a car, it is more likely to cause you more stress. Try to choose the best environment to live in. Kids can develop anxiety from a stressful home life. You may or may not know that your anxiety level is rising, so always be aware so it doesn’t turn bad quick.

 
2. See if you can get to a quiet or calm place. But if you cannot take ten deep calm breaths and close your eyes. It may seem silly, but it is the quickest stress reliever, because when you breathe, it puts you at ease. Remember that because it rhymes!… (sort of) Imagine you are at your favorite place in the world such as an ocean. This will automatically take your mind off of the anxiety, and helps keep you calm.

 
3. Consider other sources. Maybe sound is not what triggers your Panic Attacks. Maybe it is the quiet, or for no known reason at all, which is perfectly normal. I find that watching T.V. or talking on the phone helps keep me calm. Now that your surroundings are taken care of, lets focus on you.

 
4. Notice your posture. Are you shaking? Fidgeting? try to sit still. Anxiety has a snowball effect. The more you shake, the more nervous you become. The more you feed into your anxiety, the worse it is.

 
5. Know what to look for. When you have a Panic Attack, you may feel very anxious, and nervous, or you could feel like you are in a dream, and could even have trouble hearing or understanding what is going on. The best thing you can do is tell yourself that it is just a Panic Attack, and it may scare you to death, but it won’t kill you!

 
6. Just know that you are not the only person who has experienced Panic Attacks. Many people have, and many people understand. I hope this has helped. Stay calm and take your mind off of it! If it persists, you should see a doctor so you can be prescribed medicine.

 
7. See a doctor, and make sure what you are experiencing is a panic attack. It could be a serious medical problem, or may be nothing!

 
Tips
• Stay calm and take your mind off the Panic Attack
• Maybe it’s not heart trouble, it could be from Anxiety
• Don’t always reach for pills to make it better, Try to deal with it on your own first, before you take pills or else it will never resolve.
• IF YOU EVER HAVE ANY DANGEROUS THOUGHTS, CONTACT A DOCTOR OR FIND IMMEDIATE HELP