how do people cope with a panic attack

[fisher]

what it is i wake up out of a dream and like just now my heart started going faster and my breathing started going faster and i knew it was a panic attack but i lay there in bed and just let it wash over me and if i would of got up and started panicking about it my heart would of carried on beating fast but i done some slow breathing and my heart slowed down and i felt calm,just wanted other peoples oppinion about panic attacks how do you deal with them x

[NixonRulz]

what it is i wake up out of a dream and like just now my heart started going faster and my breathing started going faster and i knew it was a panic attack but i lay there in bed and just let it wash over me and if i would of got up and started panicking about it my heart would of carried on beating fast but i done some slow breathing and my heart slowed down and i felt calm,just wanted other peoples oppinion about panic attacks how do you deal with them x

You didn't deal with it, you slayed that thing

Good for you

That's how you rid yourself of panic attacks!

No advice needed

[fisher]

Nixon thanks and i am not sayin next time will be easier but lets hope so😀😀😀

[GeneAllen]

what it is i wake up out of a dream and like just now my heart started going faster and my breathing started going faster and i knew it was a panic attack but i lay there in bed and just let it wash over me and if i would of got up and started panicking about it my heart would of carried on beating fast but i done some slow breathing and my heart slowed down and i felt calm,just wanted other peoples oppinion about panic attacks how do you deal with them x

Awesome Fisher!!

You did it! The way you did it disables it, and looks like you disabled "it". Continue that practice and you'll be very glad you did.
Great !!! Peace

[Dahila]

Very good Fisher;))

[fisher]

Yes but feeling anxious now just waves of anxiety oh i hate this feeling😒

[JoeCool]

Yes but feeling anxious now just waves of anxiety oh i hate this feelingdde12
Nice work on the former...but can totally relate to this now. I like how you termed it "waves" of anxiety. That is so perfect because anxiety comes at us in waves. Use the same thought process as you did to deal with the panic attack!!! Just ride them out... : ).Are health concerns your trigger?

[fisher]

Ues joe i have health anxiety,i have always had a fear of dying since being young and i dont know whats brought it on:) how are u joe?

[JoeCool]

Fisher....Struggling through and taking it one day at a time. : ) Health anxiety is my trigger as well. Had a 3 month stay in the hospital when I was 10 and it's been this way ever since. I try and float through the anxious feelings but it gets so difficult sometimes; and exhausting to boot! I'm glad I found this forum to write about this. It's a release to relate and share with others going through the same struggle! What do you do to help cope? Are you on meds?

[fisher]

Hiya joe well am not on meds because if i took anything it would make me 10 times worse,because i have health anxiety i know every different feeling,some say beta blockers are good but i just couldnt take them,do u get panic attacks?how do u control them joe?

[JoeCool]

Hiya joe well am not on meds because if i took anything it would make me 10 times worse,because i have health anxiety i know every different feeling,some say beta blockers are good but i just couldnt take them,do u get panic attacks?how do u control them joe?
Hi fisher...indeed...anxiety and panic attacks go hand in hand with me. Quite honestly, I simply try and "ride" through them. I try and confirm to myself that I'm feeling anxiety/panic and that this is all that it is. I take a deep breathe and relax or focus my attention on something as best I can. This is all easier said than done, I know. What do you do to cope?

[fisher]

Hiya joe,well am worse when am asleep and wake up i get a fast heartbeat and i try to stay calm so i dont have a panic attack and in the day i can distract myself if ever i felt panicky/)

[JoeCool]

Hiya joe,well am worse when am asleep and wake up i get a fast heartbeat and i try to stay calm so i dont have a panic attack and in the day i can distract myself if ever i felt panicky/)
Indeed , middle of the night is a different deal. It's so limiting if that makes any sense. It's always best to stay calm to breathe deep.

[PanicPhobia]

I've never been good at dealing with them. I just let them run their course and suffer through them. I take a Klonopin and hope for the best.

The one thing that does help a little is to get my mind on some activity ASAP. Go read something, play a game, go outside. Even though I feel like I am dying, if I can distract myself long enough so that the thoughts of impending doom aren't so intrusive, I can usually shorten the attacks. Breathing exercises have never helped me. When I do them I start thinking about my breathing, which leads me to have shortness of breath, which makes the anxiety worse. I have to get my mind off myself completely.

[fisher]

Have you ever took magnesium?

[andrinka]

I've never been good at dealing with them. I just let them run their course and suffer through them. I take a Klonopin and hope for the best.

The one thing that does help a little is to get my mind on some activity ASAP. Go read something, play a game, go outside. Even though I feel like I am dying, if I can distract myself long enough so that the thoughts of impending doom aren't so intrusive, I can usually shorten the attacks. Breathing exercises have never helped me. When I do them I start thinking about my breathing, which leads me to have shortness of breath, which makes the anxiety worse. I have to get my mind off myself completely.

This is, so unfortunately, the truth. And even you go deeper and deeper into thinking, it only gets worse.

I remember I had a period of panic attacks when I was 21, and recently, I have moved to another city and another country, and attacks started again.
I never thought of it, that the situation is going to repeat, but...
The city I live now is slightly smaller than previous one, and maybe it's because of that. Also, I don't have much friends in here, so I feel quite disconnected
to the world. In fact, it is very hard for me to any kind of association to some peculiar place or a person, because that didn't happen. Also, because I travel
pretty much and in constant change, the pictures of the cities started to appear. In fact, my mind is trying to find anything familiar or known, to make myself
more comfortable. It can be very frustrating, and I started to go out less, or at least, I don't like when I go out. Also, my brain is now full time brainstorming,
and I really couldn't predict the period like this.
I started to fear in the underground/Ubahn, which is ridiculous, I started to fear from other people and I don't know from where all that comes from.
During the attack I think, at least, that I am going to fall any minute, so I think about the attack, and falling, and emergency, and everything could happened,
and plus that I'm going mad, and than I think it's because I am mentally always very active and overwhelmed, and there is no end... Of course, I am aware that is
only an attack, but sometimes I am really afraid what If I fell?

I don't take any medicine, I take magnesium, but more because I always do that, like calcium or other vitamins, and breathing doesn't help at all.
Is there any good advice or it is simply individual? Also, I would take a medicine, If it would help, why not.

:D