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Do you suddenly feel intensely anxious or stressed? Has your heart rate suddenly increased, do you feel faint, or dizzy? Are you trembling or shaking? It could be a panic attack.

The good thing is they pose no danger and don’t last forever. The bad thing is they’re stressful and frightening.

Panic attacks are sudden episodes of intense fear triggering physical reactions even when there is no real danger. Panic attacks are based on a perceived threat.

On this page, we have provided information on panic attacks and an exercise to help face them. Hopefully, you can be better equipped to handle them if they show up again in the future.

The video you see is type of form relaxing breathing method called “box or square breathing.” We recommend this breathing technique especially during an episode of high stress/ anxiety, like a panic attack. Take some time and try it out. If it doesn’t work for you, try a different method!

  • A panic attack is not life threatening. It’s just an intense reaction from the body to imaginary danger. Don’t give yourself unnecessary worry, you’re ok!

  • Anxiety and panic attacks are things that can be cured as well as treated. While treatment may take some time, it’s never too early to do what you can for yourself. This can help to make the worry and the severity of the panic attacks easier. By incorporating new routines into your life like exercise, spending time outside, adding changes to diet, and being more mindful of time dedicated to yourself, it will get easier.

  • Science is still trying to understand a lot about panic attacks. But what is generally understood is having a flight or fight response will never go away. As a generational response to our long ago ancestors fighting to stay alive, this overwhelming and sudden response is similar and connected to these cave people’s dangerous survival! Everyone will experience intense panic, but everyone’s experience will be entirely different.

Feeling uneasy?

Remember, what you are feeling is what your mind thinks is happening. Sometimes, our brain can overthink and lead us to believe something awful is going to happen, like a heart attack or that we are going to die. In case of an anxiety attack, there is statistically no concern that such is ever going to happen.

Do not worry, your brain is designed to issue a fight or flight response, and it is essential in order for us to survive. Howeeeever, it sometimes can assume a completely normal scenario as danger for whatever reason. That is why we feel anxious, and why some changes in our lifestyle can help overcome it or decrease the intensity of it.