How to explain A Panic Attack To Someone
How to help your friend during a panic attack - BBC
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everyone in their lives will experience
probably moments of severe anxiety and
that's the first step on the road to
having an attack so it might look
something like this
clasping his hands is looking around but
there's not a lot of visible external
signs that he's really losing controls
aren't though how are you feeling inside
your own head I can feel my heart
pounding my chest is getting tighter my
hands are sweating and all of those
things are making me feel worse at this
stage you may be able to get the panic
under controlled either by moving to a
different place or speak to someone and
feel a bit better but you may not and
that's when the panic can get out of
control and become a full-blown panic
attack the result becomes more panicky
his body releases the Drennen and those
hormones start to make his heart pound
his breathing rate increased that makes
his body feel physically very bad that
in turn increases the level of panic and
so Zahn gets into a vicious cycle that
he is unable to control anxiety or panic
attacks happen because you've lost
control of your breathing you try to
breathe in deeper and more quickly than
normal over breathing or
hyperventilating causes a decrease in
the amount of carbon dioxide in your
blood leaving you with too much oxygen
and making you feel dizzy
hyperventilation can also give you chest
pain because it causes blood vessels in
your body to constrict add to this the
fact that the release of adrenaline has
made your heart pump out blood faster
and you've got sharp stabbing pains that
feel like a heart attack and that makes
you panic even more and that's when
someone needs a bit of help I know
you're feeling terrible everything's
gonna be alright I want you to listen to
my voice
close your mouth get your breathing
under control okay you're gonna be all
right concentrate on something else
focus on your feet
close your mouth just put your finger on
your mouth and slow your breathing down
okay just breathe in and out through
your nose that's good now have a seat
okay that's good how do you feel now why
she feel mainly I feel very tired and
although I was only pretending to have a
panic attack I can feel my heart rate
racing and I do feel quite exhausted so
one of the things you may have to do for
someone who's had a panic attack in his
recovery is getting them a glass of
order allowing them a bit of space given
to rest sometimes a cup of tea all those
things can really help keep someone calm
