Whenever I was a young child, I watched my mother have anxiety attacks that seemed to come, one right after the other. Of course, nobody ever really talked about anxiety attacks at that time and it was a lot of work putting into making sure that it was kept a family secret. This has changed in recent years and now, it is difficult to have a conversation with someone where they are not talking about the anxiety that they are feeling.
Even though I was aware that anxiety attacks typically ran in families, I didn’t feel as if I was going to have a problem with it because I lived my life without much worry. The unfortunate thing is, that didn’t stop the anxiety attacks from coming and whenever I was in my mid-20s, I had my first attack that really came as a surprise. Although I had always expected that I might have an anxiety attack, I wasn’t ready for the symptoms that happened and it ended up putting me in the hospital, thinking that I was having a heart attack.
Over the course of the next few years, the anxiety attacks that I was experiencing became more frequent and began to increase in intensity. It was beginning to take over my life and at times, I found myself being unwilling to even leave the house out of fear that I might have another anxiety attack whenever I was in a public place. That is when I decided to do something about it.
I had done a considerable amount of research on panic attacks and I’ve read that a number of people were able to treat their anxiety naturally and with some success. I had always avoided taking any kind of pharmaceutical treatment for the anxiety, simply because I watched family members go downhill as a result of taking too many pills for their panic. I felt that it was a good idea to try something natural instead.
I started to read everything that I can possibly get my hands on and one of the more interesting ways of coping with anxiety attacks and I found was to simply allow them to happen. I was always fighting my way through the anxiety, as if I was trying to get to the other side of the attack as quickly as possible. As it turns out, this was the worst thing that I could have possibly done.
I stopped fighting the anxiety, and I simply allowed it to go underneath me and I rose on top of it in order to ride it to its completion. This had a twofold effect, one of which was to allow the anxiety to pass by quickly and the other one was that I had far fewer attacks as a result of dealing with it in this way.
I have to admit, there are still times whenever I feel the anxiety welling up inside of me but it is not something that ever occurs as an anxiety attack any longer. I keep my way of coping close at hand and whenever I feel as if I’m going to have an anxiety attack, I simply allow it to wash away which is something that I’ve learned from my coping technique. In doing so, I have been able to be free of panic attacks for many years.
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