How to Deal with Social Anxiety

By Amanda Barnes

Anxiety, or panic attacks can affect your job and your life. While it may be difficult to admit, but its important to get help. If you don't, these anxiety attacks will lead you to suffer both emotionally and physically.

One strategy for dealing with anxiety is called the 30 Second Method. This method works by giving your panic or anxiety attack 30 seconds to run its course. That's because many times, a person suffering from anxiety attack worries they in serious physical danger.

At the onset of a panic attack, you go with it for 30 seconds. No matter what damage you think you will experience, allow it to happen within that period of time. Passing out - give it 30 seconds to do its best to you. By waiting 30 seconds, you are relaxing your body and giving the anxiety attack time to run its course.

Slowly count backwards from 30. This will give the anxiety attack enough time to pass on its own. Most of the time this method will work just fine, but you may wonder why this way of dealing with attacks works. Very simple, it gives you control over the situation, which helps you counter the panic attack You are controlling the attack and you are setting the boundaries within which the attack can be contained.

This method puts you in the drivers seat, rather than being a victim of the attack. You may want to rush your counting, but take your time, and count slowly. Stay focused on your counting, even if it take longer than 30 seconds, that does not matter. Continue your countdown, slowly, moving backwards from 30 to 1. Of course, with anything, the more you exercise this method, the better you will become at it, and you will soon learn that you will not die, nor will your heart blow up, and you will realize that the attack is only a physical sensation that does not physically cause your body injury.

As time goes by, you will find that you achieve better control over the panic attack, as well as your own actions. There are people that use breathing exercises that are similar to those pregnant women use while in labor, to help them ease through their attack, but this doesn't control them, it only helps to manage the attack. By using this counting method you allow the attack to pass while under your control, helping you to eventually reach the point where you can become free from these attacks.

By getting the help you need and dealing with anxiety head on, you can get much needed relief from these attacks. - 30415

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