| It's happening again. First comes the onset of dizziness, | | | | your breathing down. But is it a cure for panic attacks? |
| as your world begins to spin out of control. In your | | | | Not really. So, what option do you have, when the |
| fingers and toes, you feel tingly, a sensation that drives | | | | story from the doctors are always the same? Just |
| you crazy with discomfort. You feel restless. | | | | deal with it. |
| But that's not all. You wish it were, but then comes the | | | | But, like the onset of the panic attack itself, the cure |
| worse part, the part you always dread and fear. Your | | | | for the panic attack begins within your body. To finally |
| heart begins to race, beating out of control like a | | | | be free of panic attacks, you must stem the tide of |
| runaway freight train. You feel as if you had just run | | | | fear that plagues your mind, freeing it of such |
| the Boston Marathon. | | | | emotions. It is this fear of having a panic attack almost |
| This leads to a tightening of your throat and chest, as | | | | daily that causes the panic attack. If you become |
| if the icy grip of fear has reached out to throttle your | | | | aware of this, you are that much closer to finding a |
| neck in its great, iron hands. The fear of death begins | | | | cure for panic attacks. |
| to consume you, and your breath comes in short, rapid, | | | | The hardest part, the biggest step you must take, |
| staccato bursts. | | | | before you overcome your fear of having another |
| What you have just experienced happens to you on | | | | panic attack, is to learn to overcome your skepticism |
| an almost daily basis. Sometimes, it's not quite so | | | | that there really is a cure for panic attacks. |
| severe, but always, your body feels as if it wanted to | | | | This skepticism, while healthy to an extent, has often |
| rebel against you, to leave your mind and spirit alone to | | | | debilitated people, preventing them from taking just the |
| fight the negative, melancholy thoughts and feeling | | | | sort of action needed to eventually find a cure. |
| which undoubtedly accompany this onslaught. | | | | First, believe that a cure is out there. It may not be in |
| No, you were not just watching a horror flick on | | | | the form of doctors and psychologists still practicing |
| television. You were once again caught up in the | | | | antiquated techniques of "dealing with it," which may |
| throes of a very real, very uncomfortable, yet very | | | | have been useful twenty-five years ago. It definitely |
| frequent panic attack. Something several million people | | | | may not be in the form of a pill you take three times a |
| around the world suffer from, right alongside you. | | | | day after every meal. But the cure is out there. And |
| And just like these millions of other people you, too, | | | | when you find it, rejoice, for no more will you remain a |
| would just love to find a cure for it. But the story is all | | | | prisoner of your own fears and inhibitions. Because |
| the same: go to a doctor or psychologist, get a | | | | then you will set your soul free to once more soar |
| prescription for some medication, and told to go home | | | | with the eagles, to live a life of no restraints, free to |
| and deal with it. | | | | enjoy everything and everyone who comes along. |
| Why should you just go home and deal with it? Why | | | | Take two of those experiences, and call me every |
| should medication help? All the prescription medication | | | | morning. And welcome to living. |
| does is numb your body, and maybe work to slow | | | | |