Any advice on how to handle a panic attack? ?!

I just have to like, breathe in and out reallyyyy slowly and think about something random.

Like if i think about something i dont particularly like or a bad situation it'll get worse obviously, but then i find if im mid panic attack and i try to think of something happy or exciting my emotions are all jumbled and i just feel sick and worse! When I think about something COMPLETLEY weird and random, and breathing deeply... it tends to get a bit better.

I thought about the Wizard Of Oz recently.. by the time you've got to the hurricane bit it's probably gone!

I sound like i'm taking the mick, or i'm an absolute nutter.... believe it or not i'm actually not! Just try it sometime :)

I don't recommend buying it illegally, but if you can get a doctor to give you a prescription for xanax (or klonopin or something similar) it really can help a lot with panic attacks. I was skeptical about whether there was any drug that could make a difference, but I found that it works very well and very quickly - if I take it when I start having a panic attack I usually feel calmer in about 15 minutes. Be very careful though because it is physically addictive, so don't get hooked on it unless you have a prescription - your panic attacks could get MUCH worse if you take it every day and then stop cold turkey, and it can be dangerous for your physical health as well.

my own experience

You can't simply make panic attacks stop. They are there because there is something wrong going on or danger coming your way. So many people say that, OMG, how do I get rid of these, I should not have to be going through these, but sometime or another, people will go through this. Just like you said that there have been some changes in your life, your body, believe it or not, is readjusting to the environment and the all around. You have to begin to learn who you are and accept your differences from everyone else. You have to see what is important to you and what will keep you grounded. Unfortunately, people continue to say that we're all the same, but unfortunately, that is not true. Anyway, when you begin to get these panic attacks, breathe in and out, and make sure you're taking control of the situation. If you believe someone is causing these, be honest to the person and always be good. The best way to handle uncomfortable feelings is to respond and release with good manners. Anyway, hope this helps.

Even positive stress is stress. Breath though panic attacks. Definitely talk to a doctor. Also from experience, try and write down as many notes as you can about as much as you can remember about at least the half hour before the attack. Write it down in case you do not remember. That way you can see if your doctor can point out a cause stressor. Best at the moment solution, even as you feel it coming, remove yourself from situation, and breathe!

Take a nice read on Wiki here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_attac…
Go have a visit with you physician, or walk in clinic.
Then find out what is actually happening to you, because you don't have panic attacks "out of blue" and for absolutely no emotional or physical reasoning...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_attac… / DEURURUEPPP

Well I'm not a doctor so I don't know what causes them. BUT I do have them quite often and what really helps me is to sit down (usually in a corner, I have no clue why) and I look at something and say :curtains, pink, from target. Piano, lights on keys, from mom. I really don't have a clue why it helps me but it just does. It really gets my mind off whatevers stressing me. :)

Hope it helps!

Panic attacks are usually caused by anxiety or trauma in your life that has happened or is happening but it somewhat natural unless if happens more then once a few a month or so.

http://www.thehealthcenter.info/adult-pa…

I suffer panic attacks and emotional problems

I found this blog recently where this guy tells his story about panic attacks and how he stopped them - It might help

http://panicattacksymptomsgone.com

Tactical breathing.

Try yoga or anything that will reduce stress.

Food that makes you tired.

There's no need to worry about being perfect anymore. It turns out that no one is at www.perfectlynot.com

Take deep breaths and count to ten woman! Then when you have the feeling to...you need to take some ASPIRIN.

ice and a docs visit

At the first sign of one, employ an ANTI PANIC ATTACK breathing technique. Advice from a clinical psychologist is to breathe in to the count of 3: (one thousand one; one thousand two; one thousand three) each takes around a second to say to yourself, in your mind, and out to the count of 3. Keep repeating this until the panic subsides, which will deal with the hyperventilation aspect. View http://deeplyrelax.com & www.deepsloweasy.com/html/intro.htm Note: the controlled breathing only helps with the symptoms, as do medications/herbal remedies. Address the underlying cause, which requires some form of therapy; see your-mental-health.8m.com, below, re anxiety, on pages 1, h, & i. Page h shows the difference between panic, and anxiety attacks.

Books: When Panic Attacks: The New, Drug-Free Anxiety Therapy That Can Change Your Life, by David D. Burns (2007), & Panic Attacks Workbook: A Guided Program for Beating the Panic Trick by David Carbonell, & How to Stop Anxiety & Panic Attacks: A Simple Guide to using a specific set of Techniques to Stop Panic Attacks, Agoraphobia, Social Phobia, Fear of Driving or Flying and Stress by Geert Verschaeve, & "Power Over Panic", by Bronwyn Fox, from your bookstore, or enter "panic attacks" in the searchbar at Amazon.com for more media. Some people recommend nettle tea, with a little honey. Others use Passionflower, Lavender tea, Lemon Balm, Chamomile, but use no milk or cream with herbal teas, or Valerian (caution: use it for 3 weeks at most!). Know how these affect you before driving, or doing anything dangerous, and it is far better to use the treatments, rather than relying on herbal remedies, except short term. Free online PANIC COURSE - www.panic-attacks.co.uk also available by email. See the section on panic attacks at www.mind.org.uk also Ebooklet form. They recommend letting a panic attack run its course, without doing anything to treat it, so you KNOW you will survive it. The usual maximum is 30 minutes, until symptoms begin to subside. Also see www.anxietypanic.com/signs.html and http://www.onestepatatime.com (chatroom, and one free email is allowed to their resident expert on joining [free] - more if a paid up member) and

www.medicinenet.com/panic_disorder/art… and www.squidoo.com/controlpanicattack/modul… and http://www.anxietynetwork.com Practice a relaxation method, daily, and when needed, such as http://www.drcoxconsulting.com/managing-… or http://altmedicine.about.com/cs/mindbody… or http://www.wikihow.com/Meditate or Yoga Nidra, (a series of easy mental exercises only; no flexibility required) at http://your-mental-health.8m.com/blank_1… Hypnosis is merely a heightened state of suggestibility, in which you are better able to communicate with your subconscious mind. 85% of people are suggestible, to some degree, so you could either seek professional hypnotherapy, or more alternatives along such lines are on page 1, at 8m.com, about panic.

Advice from a published psychiatrist on controlled breathing: (1.) Get a clock, or watch with a second timer. (2.) Practise for 5 minutes, 4 times daily, until proficient. (3.) Take a small breath in, and hold it, for 6 seconds. (4.) Think to yourself: "RELAX", just before breathing out. (5.) Try to feel a sense of releasing tension, as you breathe out. (6.) Breathe in for 3 seconds, then out, for 3 seconds. Try to make your breathing very smooth, and light, as you breathe in through your nose, and out through your mouth, or nose. (7.) For the next minute, continue to breathe in, and out, every 3 seconds. (8.) Go back to step 3, at the end of the minute, and proceed through to step 7, doing this for 5 minutes. Use this at the very first sign of a panic attack starting, or any time you feel anxious, or tense.