Many people talk about being able to control your breathing in order to calm your body down. This calming is supposed to relax your body and thus stop your panic attack. However, this just does not work! Because it can be likened to closing the gate after the horse has already bolted out of the stable. What I mean, is that it will do no good as a panic attack is caused by the brain shifting into a panic state – once this happens, breathing exercises are not going to help all that much.

You’d better avoid all of the over the counter prescriptions and medications that just relieve panic attack symptoms. Whilst these will relieve the symptoms and bring your breathing back under control etc – this is all they do and only work when an attack is already in full swing.

What is the best treatment for panic attacks, is a treatment that actually seeks to stop your brain from entering panic state in the first place. What you need to do is to be able to bring your brain out of it’s panic state and back to normal thinking mode.

It is also important to be able to stop your panic attack as soon as you start to notice the symptoms of an attack. These might include dizziness, tightening of the throat, racing heart and hot flushes. When you notice these, you can fairly easily stop the attack from happening in this early stage.

It is actually fairly simple to be able to cure your panic attacks and stop them from happening in the first place. To do this, you need to be able to break the fear of having future panic attacks and to be able to quickly bring your brain back into rational thinking mode as soon as you notice the symptoms of an attack starting.