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Psychological treatment are basically a variety of cognitive and behavioral methods which are known to produce 80 to 90 percent panic free status, at least within 6 months of treatment. Even psychologists resort to these methods after some initial dose of anti anxiety medicine.
Human experience of panic attack and anxiety involves 3 systems
Physiological: Palpitations, sweating, dizziness, nausea
Cognitive: Fears of losing control or going crazy
Behavioral: Avoidance, pacing
To neutralize all the effects and the very cause, psychological treatments prove to be very effective.
- Breathing control techniques are designed to help in physiological effects of hyperventilation and relaxation methods help reduce the overall negative effects of muscle tension on anxiety.
- Cognitive techniques focus on correcting catastrophic thinking errors (e.g., I will have a heart attack and die ) and misinterpretation of harmless bodily associations.
- Exposure to feared situation and events greatly reduce the avoidance behavior.
- Apart from this a method classical conditioning is effectively used in many cases. Psychologists deliberately rehearse the symptoms to habituate the person of anxiety responses.
But all this technique are applied in a proper manner. Random application will give little result. We suggest going through jon’s videos. He is a person who has suffered for more than a decade before he could overcome his panic attacks. The videos show a step by step structured approach on all this techniques towards overcoming your panic attacks.And he is a professional and has a track record of helping many people.
The videos are panic attack specific, but the same techniques apply to other anxiety disorders. He uses different examples to describe the cognitive techniques which apply to all types of anxiety disorder. As far as self help is concerned you can do that much only. Any specific problem with severe symptoms definitely requires doctor's help. Doctor can give you a personalized anxiety management program.