We have all experienced the fight or flight or panic response throughout our lives. It’s a perfectly normal and healthy response designed to kick us into gear when we are faced with and have to deal with real threats or danger. For the most part this emergency response is triggered only when there is a real threat or danger. Sometimes, this normal and healthy response can be triggered at times when there is in fact no danger or threat at all. In these circumstances, this completely inappropriate response is known as a panic attack. Now most, if not all of us will experience a panic attack during our lifetime. No biggie. An inappropriate emergency response to a situation here and there won’t really rock the boat too much. We have all ‘freaked out’ for no particular reason. Most of us just don’t make a big deal over it. But for some of us (including me back in the day), these panic attacks can become a regular thing, and can develop into an habitual pattern of behaviour, in this case an anxiety condition, through a learning process known as operant or fear conditioning (more on this in upcoming insight/post). If you suffer from panic attacks you will know firsthand how nasty and crippling this behaviour is. However, overcoming panic attacks isn’t as hard as you might think. The first step is to understand what’s actually going on; because one thing’s for sure, as a sufferer of panic attacks, you don’t understand what's going on.... if you did, you wouldn’t suffer from them in the first place. So the purpose of the next few insights is to break down and explain exactly what panic attacks are. If you suffer from panic attacks, do yourself a solid and watch the next few insights.
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