subject: Panic Attack Cures and Therapy [print this page] Panic attacks are such unpleasant experiences that they might disrupt your daily social life and in some cases, your family, friends and relatives might suffer too. There are a lot of panic attack cures available. However some of the available panic attack cures may lead to a patient to intense medications that might be harmful in other ways. Panic attack cures can be applied by your own self but its better that you let a doctor or a professional handle the situation.
The basic step is to identify what triggers or onsets the panic attack in you. The cause differs with every person with the most basic being an unpleasant or bad experience. Sometimes it's the fear of losing your most prized possession or your loved ones.
After finding the cause, you need to set up a treatment plan. Improving lifestyle helps a great deal. You need to sleep early and get up early as the old saying goes early to bed early to rise makes a man healthy wealthy and wise. A sound sleep ensures good health and good health in turn ensures reduced panic attacks.
Drink loads and loads of water. If your body maintains and retains the moisture, you will have a low anxiety level. Taking in a healthy diet helps. Fried food, food with high fats, caffeine, alcohol and cigarettes should be avoided. Exercising daily shows reduced level of anxiety.
Go for regular body massages, they help in reducing anxiety. Cognitive behavioral therapy teaches a person to control the panic attacks. It helps in controlling it just as it begins. It teaches a person to face the fears and thus becoming strong enough to face them during the net attack.
Family therapy is another type of therapy. Your whole family is involved with you in that. When a person gets a panic attack, the family becomes considerate and supportive thus transferring strength to the patient to face his fears. He understands that whatever lies ahead of him, his family and loved ones are with him in it.
These therapies ensure that the intensity and the level of panic attacks reduce in a particular patient.