10 List of What To Do And Not To Do During An Anxiety Attacks
Almost everyone of us once or twice in our lifetime experience an anxiety attacks. Sometimes we don’t even know why it happens. Let’s look at what are the things that we should and should not do under anxiety attacks.
1) Don’t tell yourself that you are dying because you are not.
Sometimes under a severe anxiety attacks you may feel like you are dying. Just calm down because you are not dying. When the attacks is over everything is back to normal.
2) Take a deep breath from your abdomen. Breathing from your chest under this condition will make your anxiety attacks even worse.
During an anxiety attack, breath deeply from the abdomen. Try not to breath from the chest since this may cause dizziness and numbness in certain body parts.
3) Think positive. There is no place for negative thinking.
Your anxiety attack will get worse if you keep telling yourself negatively such as I am going to faint soon or I won’t be able to breathe.
4) Think positively and talk positively to yourself.
Just like negative will breed negative, positive will breed positive as well. If you keep feeding your mind with positive thing, it will help you to go through this experience easier.
5) There are health care professionals that are ready to help you.
Your own family doctors, counselors, psychologist, psychiatrist and mental health professionals should be able to advise you on how to cope with anxiety attacks.
6) People who are close to you like your spouse, children or trusted friends deserve to know and share your problems.
People that are close to you such as your spouse and friends are a great source of help. They should be able to emotionally support you to go through the hard times.
7) Stick to the medication schedule that was prescribed to you by your doctor. Get your medication on time and follow the routine that was advised by your health care professionals.
Don’t be helpless.
You have all the help you need out there. Put yourself together. Take charge of yourself, be positive get into action gear and go. You have the right to live a happy and worry free life.
9) Good news, you are not alone.
Support group is a great resources to learn from as well as contribute your opinion and share your experience. I’m sure you could find many support group that suit you in your locality.
10) Continue the learning process. Knowledge is power.
There are abundant of learning materials that you can benefit from. Countless to say from printed materials such as books and magazines to electronic materials such as CD’s and DVD’s