The Panic Puzzle – Start Overcoming Anxiety and Panic Attacks Today

The Panic Puzzle â€" Start Overcoming Anxiety and Panic Attacks Today

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. If you have anxiety, panic attacks, or a phobia of any kind, the below is probably all too familiar to you… As you’re about to find out, your suffering is needless, serves no purpose, and most importantly, can be overcome. What is anxiety really? How do panic attacks and anxiety get started in the first place and why is it so tough to overcome? Of course! As someone who overcame anxiety I know what a silly question that is. How could you forget, right? Maybe you have a genetic predisposition to have anxiety. Do other people in your family have similar issues? But now, no matter what was making you anxious at the time of your first attack, you’re afraid of havingANOTHER terrible experience like that one! It really doesn’t matter what caused your first attack, even if we knew it wouldn’t be of much help, because as you’ll see, the solution is the same. So you had your first attack, for whatever reason, and from that single experience you developed an anxiety response that you carry with you to this day. From that first attack, you’ve learned to interpret your feelings of anxiety (sometimes even very minor anxiety or stress that everyone feels) as a threat. When you feel you’re threatened, it activates your body’s “fight or flight” response, which is nature’s way of protecting you. Within fractions of a second, hormones pump through your body and prepare you to fight off a dangerous predator, or run away as fast as you can…to fight or flee. If you...