Best Home Remedies For Panic Attacks - Simple Steps to Beat Your Panic Attacks

Although there are drug-based remedies for anxiety and panic attacks

, we are just looking at home remedies for panic attacks here. This is because more and more anxiety and panic attack victims are turning to these natural cures, and away from drug-based treatments with their pretty nasty side effects.

One of the first things though is to recognise that the typical panic attack symptoms -- racing heartbeat, hyperventilation, tightness across chest / throat, tingling extremities, nausea, dizziness, hot and cold flashes, etc. -- could be symptoms of other problems such as a heart attack. So always get a proper diagnosis by your doctor.

Now to the way these extremely frightening panic attacks occur. Basically, when you have higher-than-usual levels of anxiety and stress, a further stressful situation -- e.g. being in a crowd, in a traffic jam, etc. -- can add to your already high anxiety and trigger a panic attack.

But the symptoms that you experience cannot harm you, you aren't about to die. They are only your body's response to your extremely high anxiety levels triggering your natural defenses into what they call a 'fight or flight response.' This response rapidly alters chemicals reactions, blood flow and several other things, which give rise to the symptoms of a panic attack.

So one of the most important things, as far as home remedies for panic attacks go, is to recognise the symptoms for what they are, and, that they cannot harm you. By doing this you have taken a massive step forward.

During an attack, it helps a lot if you combine the above realization with focussing externally on physical things and away from your symptoms. For example, focus on a particular building or tree, look at the colors, structure, count the windows, the branches, etc. You get the idea?

Another home remedy is to use a paper bag to control your hyperventilation. By breathing into and out of a bag, you are restoring the oxygen / carbon dioxide balance which helps to calm you down and limit the length of the attack.

The above home remedies are good during a panic attack, but you can help yourself to mitigate against their occurrence if you can reduce your overall stress and anxiety levels in the first place. Seek out and practise relaxation techniques, take daily exercise, change to a healthy diet, drink plenty of water to stay hydrated, avoid alcohol and caffeine, etc.

But, however good the above home remedies are, they cannot control your 'fear' of having another attack. This fear can be either conscious or unconscious but it will be there because the symptoms of your last attack were just so terrifying. This fear, itself, can actually trigger a powerful attack. So you must work to overcome it.

Best Home Remedies For Panic Attacks - Simple Steps to Beat Your Panic Attacks

By: John Cielo

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