| Do you suffer from anxiety attacks? Do you have | | | | searching through the recesses of the mind and fining |
| constant fear, a racing heart, difficulty breathing, | | | | incidents that cause the attacks. This is the traditional |
| insomnia, dizziness, nausea and a lump in your throat | | | | method of therapy. Often it takes costly years of |
| so big nothing, not even saliva can pass? When you | | | | therapy to solve the problem, if that ever occurs. |
| go out into social situations, if you still attempt to do | | | | Normally, patients find that the attacks continue while |
| that, do you feel sudden panic? Do you occasionally | | | | the doctor delves further into their thoughts and |
| feel panic for no apparent reason? If you answered | | | | feelings. Therapists use this method less infrequently |
| yes to several of the questions, you need help to | | | | because of the slow progress. Instead, many |
| stop panic attacks. | | | | therapists find cognitive behavior therapy more |
| Panic attacks and panic disorders are crippling. The | | | | beneficial to stop panic attacks. |
| fear of an attack often causes the attack to occur. | | | | Cognitive behavior therapy is one method |
| If you suffer from unresolved panic, you understand | | | | psychologists use to help stop panic attacks. There |
| what a socially and often economically disastrous | | | | are as many approaches to the cognitive training as |
| condition it can bring. Sometimes, simply going to | | | | there are therapists. All, however, find their basis in |
| work sets off an unstoppable panic attack. In some | | | | the cognitive model of emotional response. This |
| people, the simple act of leaving the house becomes | | | | means that the therapy follows the idea that |
| the threat of another bout with panic. Often those | | | | thoughts cause feelings, which in turn cause |
| closest to you don't understand the emotional pain | | | | behaviors. If you change your thoughts, your |
| you encounter. They tell you to get a grip, stop it or | | | | reaction to the exterior stimuli changes and you get |
| quit being melodramatic. They don't understand that | | | | better. Some counselors are far better at achieving |
| you feel you have no control over the attacks and | | | | the goal than others are. |
| don't want to experience the panic any more than | | | | Why does cognitive behavior therapy work? It |
| they want to watch you experience it. Panic attacks | | | | works with the area of the brain that set off the |
| can destroy careers, marriages and relationships. If | | | | panic attack and enables you to first control the |
| you experience them, seek help to stop panic | | | | attack and finally change the frequency of their |
| attacks immediately. | | | | occurrence. Cognitive therapy alters the message |
| Perhaps you've already sought help and still can't | | | | center in the brain that causes the panic attack by |
| seem to shake that feeling of total hopelessness. | | | | giving it a new script. The new script doesn't include |
| Maybe your doctor or doctors put you on a | | | | an unwarranted stressful reaction to stimuli. |
| mind-altering drug to help control the symptoms, but | | | | Regardless of the path you choose to stop panic |
| you still feel alone and out of place. Perhaps, the | | | | attacks, do something. Self-help programs are both |
| medication helped slow or even stopped the panic | | | | cost effective and beneficial programs to help |
| attacks but you now face life in a groggy, numb | | | | receive relief from attacks. Many of the programs |
| stupor left with minimal functioning and no creativity. | | | | are on CD, tape and even accessible on the Internet. |
| You need to seek another method to help stop panic | | | | They offer solutions to for those that suffer and |
| attacks. | | | | stop panic attacks for less than the cost of one |
| Some therapists attempt to solve panic attacks by | | | | therapy session. |