People who have experienced panic attacks often go around with a grave sense of unease that at any moment, they will experience a major panic attack.
It’s a fear of the ultimate panic attack that would finally push them over the edge.
This leads people to make changes to their behavior in order not to do anything that might trigger a panic episode.
When people feel this way, simple daily tasks can become big challenges. Some people start to fear driving their car in traffic. Others fear leaving their safe zone or simply any situation where they have responsibilities to perform.
This state of apprehension keeps a person’s anxiety level high, leading to feelings of general anxiety.
If you are such a person I hope to put your mind at rest. Panic attacks as well as general anxiety (even when not accompanied by panic disorder) can be eliminated in simple steps regardless of how long the anxiety has been a problem.
I am speaking not just from my own personal experience but from having worked with thousands of people right around the world.
Here is an important observation:
The key difference between someone who is cured of panic attacks and those who are not is really very simple. The one who is cured is not afraid of panic attacks. I’ll try to show you how to one of these people as well.
What if I told you the trick to ending panic attacks is to want to have one!
That sounds strange but let me explain.
A simple trick to ending panic attacks is wanting to have one because the wanting causes an immediate diffusion of the anticipatory fear.
Can you have a panic attack in this very second?
No !
You know the saying “what you resist persists.” Well that saying applies perfectly to fear. If you resist a situation out of fear, the fear around that issue will persist.
How do you stop resisting?
You move directly into the path of the anxiety; by doing so it cannot persist because you process the fear out through your emotions.
In essence what that means is that if you voluntarily seek out a panic attack you won’t have one.
Try in this very moment to have a panic attack and I will bet you cannot… Yes, I know the idea of calling on a panic attack is scary at first but play with the concept and watch what happens.
You may not realize it but you have always decided to panic. You make the choice by thinking
“This is beyond my control.”
“These scary sensations are beyond my bodies control.”
It may help if you imagine that having a panic attack is like standing on a cliff edge.
The anxiety, it seems, is pushing you closer to falling over the edge. Each time you fight back using poor coping strategies the more desperate you feel.
To be rid of the fear you must metaphorically jump. You must jump off the cliff edge and into the anxiety and fear and all the things that you fear most. How do you jump?
You jump by wanting to have a panic attack. You go about your day asking for a panic attack to appear. Your real safety is the fact that a panic attack will never harm you. That is medical fact.
You are safe, -Yes, the sensations are wild and uncomfortable, but no harm will come to you.
Your body is in a heightened state but no harm will come to you.
The jump becomes nothing more than a two inch drop! You are safe.
You always were.
Think of all the panic attacks you have had to date and come out the other end. Was there any lasting physical damage to you, other than the mounting feeling of panic?
Now you are going to approach this problem differently. You actively seek out the attack like an adventure seeker. Take the opposite approach.
YOU bring it on!!!
Talk soon
Barry Joe McDonagh
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Hi
I don’t know how i found you but you have no idea how good i feel when i read your words, you just give me faith and energie to keep going without beeing afraid and thinking all the time about what if i got a panic attac in the middle of driving, flying, elivetor, need to be somewhere safe all the time near to a hospital or doctors…
plz keep in touch with me
My first panic attack happened about two months ago. I seriously thought i was having a heart attack, but im only 20 years old. My chest was beating really fast, loss of breath, and i even had burning sensations in my legs. Ever since then i have been thinking im having heart problems, and every sudden pain in my chest or stomach makes me panic. I’ve wasted two ER visits just for the doctors to tell me everything is normal, and ask if i have been under alot of stress. The best advice you give is attempting to have a panic attack at your own will. It just wont happen!
I practiced bringing my attacks on and not being affraid. I call them my frodo fears. Now I can control them thankyou.
Well, I seem to get bad anxiety everyday, meaning I can’t sit still for very long, don’t like going out etc always fearing that I’m going to get another panic attack but after reading this, i still can’t relax properly but i also don’t seem so anxious so it’s a start….would like to thank you very much
Tyler, don’t waste the rest of your life in fear like me, not worth it i have had sooo many panic attacks that sent me too the hospital, pretty confident i broke records in my area but i always came out alive, but you remind me of myself i always worry something is wrong with my heart, and now i’m worried about this whole swine flu going around, i worry about EVERYTHING but continue to read joes advice i just started reading my emails tonight its 5am and i never sleep at night thats when most of my anxiety does occur, but take care nothing is wrong with you, your only 20 and have alot of life left, take care.
I have been suffering from panic attack for last 2 years – in India we dont have proper consulation for these types of problems but after reading your website i am feeling very relived now.
Thank you .
Regards……
Ashok
your newsletters are all i can afford at the moment ,no money to buy the book and i really appreciate them, its great to think you still help even if theres no sale at the end. I got my first newsletter this morning and im already learning how to deal my anxiety, its still bad but i feel i might finally have some information that is making a slight differencece already, thank you,
From Katie ,
Ireland
Thanks for the tip. i too have had ER visits due to this . I am on maintenance dose and have ,adopted the ancient Indian philosophy of acceptance of all experiences with an open mind.
At the end, life is a series of experiences, good and bad, happy and scary.The only thing to fear is fear itself.
I OFTEN HAVE PANIC ATTACKS I EXPERIENCED MY FIRST ONE WHEN I WAS 16 I THOUGHT I WAS HAVIN A HEART ATTACK I WENT TO THE ER AND I WAS AND STILL IS AT 22 PERFECTLY HEALTHY IT TRIGGED BECAUSE I HAD ACID REFLUX AND I THOUGHT IT WAS HEART PROBLEMS I WAS OFTEN SCARED TO BE ALONE AND TO GO TO SCHOOL, MOVIES OR ANY OTHER INCLOSED PLACES BUT I REALIZED THE ONLY WAY TO BEAT FEAR IS TO FACE IT I STILL HAVE PANIC ATTACKS SOMETIMES BUT NOW I JUST IGNORE THEM CAUSE THEY ALWAYS GO AWAY CAUSING NO HARM TO MY BODY.
Thanks again – Have any advice when general anxiety causes you to feel nasuas?
I like Madeline have the biggest fear with panic attacks while driving. It is just like she explained. My first attack was when I was 23. I am now 55. This however led to an agrorophobia state. I was a mess just to go into a grocery store, especially standing in line. But learned to either pick up a magazine and read or talk to a customer in front or behind me. Bascially I feel a safe zone anywhere other than being out on the road. Since my second panic attack was from driving – the same spot brings on an attack. Even though I felt as if I’ve came a long way – I still seem so far behind. But, your newletters have made so much sense. We wake up with anxiety. That’s how our day is geared. We may start out with good attitude – but sometime during the day, someone or something will light that fuse. Yes, it is true what you said about being angry when attacks happens. It makes me down right ferious because it has robbed me of years and still robbing. The fear controls your life instead of you controlling the fear.
HI, THANKS, I HAVE PANIC ATTACKS ONLY WEN I DRINK CAFFEINE , THIS HAPPEN TO ME THO MONTHS AGO BUT I HAVE ANXIETY ALL THE TIME AND WHEN I FOUND YOU SOME HOW I FEEL GOOD . I LIKE TO KNOW IF ONE DAY I CAN DRINK CAFFEINE AGAIN .
I have been having panic attacks for almost two years. I checked myself into a treatment center, because they said it was a ten day program, and stayed there for a month. If you really want to have a good panic attack, have someone tell you that you cant go home. You can imagine how I felt. When I got out I had to fly home, and they started all over. I learned ways to cope with the attacks, but they were still very uncomfortable. I came across this website, and decided to take a chance on it. I stayed up all night reading the book. The next morning I felt better than I have in a long time.
I have been having the panic attacks since July. I have the fear of driving, yet I still drive. I figure the worst that will happen is that I will have to pull my truck over for a little while and let the attack pass and then I can continue driving. But I am more afraid to be home alone at night. I think this is because I had my first attack at 2 in the morning and went to the hospital. I never have thought about actually trying to make myself have a attack. I am not sure I would want to make myself have a attack, since they are so uncomfortable and can be very frightening. But at least I know when I am having one and I can try to calm myself down. They say that Time is a great healer. Maybe with time and this program I can have at least moderate relief. Or maybe cure it all together so god help me.
Hi,i been suffering from panic attack for nearly 3 months,and its a terrible 3 months,i been to so many doctors in my area,all of them told me i am perfectly fine,because of the anxiety symptoms so severe,like shortness of breathe,rapid hearbeat,extreme dizziness its so hard to convinced myself its just anxiety,very hard i can tell you because these physical symptoms are really unpleasant,i also convinced i have either heartproblems,but last month i did multiple ECGs,then a Stress test threadmill and then finally a ECHOdiagram,after all this test the cardiologist and doctor told me i had an sportmans heart,because my heart were perfectly fine,then did 3 chest xrays nothing came out negative.all fine..its really suffering..imgained feeling those sensations of anxiety all day long and its also quite frustrating for others who just told us to calm down..relaz..then ur anxiety will be gone,no one understand who terrible is it untill they themself experienced this anxiety attack.
Again sir thank you…another step for us to take…life is really a journey…but for us that fear almost everything…we are more than a stagnant being feel so lost…please do continue to guide us…
The best advise I can offer to others at this point is to act quickly. I’m a senior compaired to alot of you that’s been sufferers for only a short while. Even though I’ve paved my way through many moons – I’ve also developed more habits and patterns of negative thinking. If I in the very beginning would have known what to do and not try and mask my problem – I to could have had a more speedy recovery. Instead, I kept silent in hopes I could pull off having this disability and wing it. Best wishes to you all!!
Guys this thoughts really works out but along with this if one can hold their Index Finger at the time of Panic Attacks & Anxiety thats a great help one can relived within secs hope this helps
regard’s
Eric
I had my first panic attack about 2 years ago. They always seem to come when I am trying to go to sleep or lying in bed trying to rest. These words do help, but there seems to be this voice that I can’t quiet that reminds me that I can always have one. I think about how I spent all night wondering the streets in the freezing rain, mind racing, stomach aching, and being so afraid of never feeling better again and going insane. My panic attacks last for days at a time. I am trying to cope with it, and thank god for such a website and people like you! It feels good to know that I am not alone, and hopefully not going insane. I’ll continue to battle, and hopefully I will defeat this war waging inside. Thank you!
James
I know how all of you feel. I started having panic attacks in my early 20’s and now at 39 I am still having them…I have generalized GAD and always worry about my health thinking this can not be anxiety rather something physical. According to the doctors stress and anxiety can manifest itself with physical symptoms. I have shortness of breath and acid reflux and chest pain that makes me feel like its shooting through my chest to my back and sometimes get a feeling of detachement and that is probably from my breathing not using my whole lungs to breath rather just the top half. I have started Yoga, and taking sometime off work due to lay-offs talk about more anxiety now that I have to spend time with just me. I just stumbled upon this web site so I am just getting my e-mails. I really hope this will help and I have to stay positive that it will. Change your thoughts from negative to positive as soon as you feel anxious keep yourself busy this is what I try to do. My anxiety is mostly at night when things are quite. I wish you all the best in your adventure and hope we can help each other along the way. We are not crazy there are many people like us.
James,
I feel for you deeply – as I know how horrible this can be – but you have to know this WILL pass – I thought I was heading off the planet and would never be recognised again as myself, that’s how bad it got – but thanks to Panic Away – God Bless him – and an angry stubborn will power inside I have learned to edge back into control. Yeah, I get some dodgy days when it can sneak up on me, but then I remind myself of all the things about ME that are important ..you see, a lot of this stems from not feeling “good enough” in the world..maybe people tread on your dreams and your feelings about life in this stressful, screwed up world we have to inhabit for now . They dont mean, to but for sensitive souls this stuff of life can creep in to your mind and chatter away until you doubt yourself on every level. You begin to lose touch with WHO you are? Does that make any sense? The truth is YOU are the one you have been waiting for – find yourself James, again, love yourself and make this your finest truth about yourself…..this IS your life – we know life can and will take your very Soul and try to turn it on itself ..and your self respect …and the reality of your place in the world and what you are trying to achieve here and now becomes a blur. Find your passion and what works for you –
The trick is to take each day at a time and live the best way you can for YOU. So many others are in the same situation. You are not alone. You are a winner!!!
Take care
Vanessa
I have share with you that I have only read 2 of your The Panic Away Newsletters and already I feel that I can take the bull by it’s horns…. You are so right, I have accepted the reasons for my fears and insecurities. I am one of the many in this economy that is jobless and at the rip old age of 55 have been feeling a sense of great loss.. I found that the fear of loss is what is keeping bonded to my panic attacks. I am taking baby steps to accomplish what I need to obtain for my well being.. Thank you for your advise..
Thank you for your e-mail I found it very helpful
I had my first panic attack today. I’ve been dealing with pvc’s and am currently running the gauntlet of heart tests. Went to the ER thinking I was having a heart attack. Was soooo embarrased when everything was okay except for my pvc’s. It’s a scary thing and I’m hoping to get control. It’s amazing how many other people in our lives we affect because of a panic attack. I’m hoping this program will help me.