Many people these days have to go through their days fearing the next anxiety or panic attack.

Even while sleeping a person can be suddenly overpowered by it.

What The Person Feels When Suffering A Panic Attack

• high heartbeat rate

• pressure on the chest

• hard to breathe normally

• frightened about getting stuck in traffic or somewhere else

• anxious thoughts that will not fade away naturally

• a dizzy sensation

• sweating or chilling spells

• hands and fingers numb or tingling

• inexplicable feelings of deep discomfort or embarrassment in normal situations in life (parties, buses, planes, eating out, at work etc)

• the skyrocketing heartbeat rate makes it seem like a heart attack is happening and death is imminent

In spite of the fact that in the person's psyche that bad experience is perceived as something much greater than it really is, the fear they have to endure is very real.

Consequently, it shouldn't be brushed aside by others as just workings of the imagination or an exaggeration. That kind of reaction only makes things worse for the one who is already suffering so much.

A Few Other Characteristics

• in most cases, a panic attack's extent stays under 10 minutes

• when the first episode happens, the person faces an increased probability of having others in the future when compared with someone who, although subjected to the same risk factors, never suffered one before

• when they happen frequently, or when the person feels extreme anxiety about having another attack, that condition is labeled "Panic Disorder"

• Panic Disorder impacts around 2.5 to 3 million people in USA only

• women have double the probability of falling victims of this condition when compared to men

What Makes Panic Attacks Happen

It's not totally clear what builds the panic's path into one's life for the first time. For many, it can be triggered by major changes in life, like a new baby, a new job (or losing one), getting married or divorced and so on. In other cases, just major stressing factors from life in general could do it.

Whenever a pattern of repeating panic attacks is set, often times that person starts feeling a natural tendency to skip the situations that set them off. In some cases, that ends up transformed into a terrible phobia, which triggers a new attack just from the fear of facing one of those scenarios again. In the worst stage, the person is diagnosed with "agoraphobia" (an abnormal fear of public places or open areas).

How To Stop Panic Attacks?

If you look around, you'll find some well-known, traditional procedures for anxiety and panic attacks treatment, and while some people may have regained a better outlook toward life through them, many others didn't really see any change at all in their condition by using those methods. In some other cases, the result was only partial improvement (which, for a clinical condition like this, is not really a good consolation).

For the latter cases, it's been proved to be very effective an innovative approach to the matter, involving a natural, drug-free technique for the eradication of those horrible events from someone's life forever.

What makes this novel therapy stand out is that it makes the victims ask for the panic attacks and anxiety episodes to happen and then fight them, therefore not running away anymore.

At this point, it would be only logical to ask: why would anyone do that?

The idea behind that is to start getting accustomed to the experience and then change the way you react to it by realizing that you can deal with those episodes, go through them and get out intact.

The result from that is, you gradually become less fearful and more comfortable with those passing anxious thoughts until they no longer hold the power to unleash the anxiety and the panic they used to cause.

Although there are additional details about this therapy, that's the basics: when you change the way you react, you change the outcome. And that's when things start turning in your favor, because now you control the situation.