Almost everyone of us once or twice in our lifetime experience an anxiety attacks. Sometimes we don’t even know why it happens. Let’s look at what are the things that we should and should not do under anxiety attacks.

1) Please tell yourself that you are not dying.

Sometimes under a severe anxiety attacks you may feel like you are dying. Just calm down because you are not dying. When the attacks is over everything is back to normal.

2) Do not breathe from your chest. Take a deep breath from the abdomen.

During an anxiety attack, breath deeply from the abdomen. Try not to breath from the chest since this may cause dizziness and numbness in certain body parts.

3) Please keep negative thought out of your mind.

Your anxiety attack will get worse if you keep telling yourself negatively such as I am going to faint soon or I won’t be able to breathe.

4) Keep feeding your mind with positive thinking

Just like negative will breed negative, positive will breed positive as well. If you keep feeding your mind with positive thing, it will help you to go through this experience easier.

5) Get help from the health care professionals

There are a lot of help available from health care professionals in many area of expertise relating to mental health. Professionals in this area includes psychologist, psychiatrist, social workers and counselors.

6) People who are close to you like your spouse, children or trusted friends deserve to know and share your problems.

Getting your problems out of your chest would relieve half of your burden. People who are close to you could provide comfort and help to alleviate your problems.

7) Follow your doctor’s advice. If you have been prescribed with medication, then take your medication on time and follow the routine that has been scheduled by your health care professionals.
Don’t feel hopeless

Be energetic. Charge up your confidence level. Take a challenge to tackle the anxiety problem that you have. Remember as the saying goes, nothing to fear but the fear itself.

9) Good news, you are not alone.

Support group is a great resources to learn from as well as contribute your opinion and share your experience. I’m sure you could find many support group that suit you in your locality.

10) Continue the learning process. Knowledge is power.

There are abundant of learning materials that you can benefit from. Countless to say from printed materials such as books and magazines to electronic materials such as CD’s and DVD’s