Let's talk about how to stop a panic attack, okay?

Now over the years, working with a lot of different people, there's been, of course,

quite a few people who came in my office with panic attacks, and they are always on the

same diet, which I'm going to discuss.

But a panic attack is a severe anxiety, it's fear with volume, okay?

It's the feeling that you can't breathe, suffocating, and so here's some things that you

should do.

Number one, slow down your breathing.

If you notice someone in a panic attack, they're either hyperventilating, or the inhalation

is different than the exhalation.

They could be doing like, the exhalation is usually shorter.

So you want to breathe in for maybe five seconds, and then breathe out for the five seconds.

Keep that the same, and slow it down.

That's going to actually pull you out of this panic attack.

It's going to pull you out of what's called the flight or flight mechanism.

Because you have the adrenals involved, the adrenals of the stress gland.

There's also something else going on in your brain.

You have something called the amygdala, and it's very similar to the adrenals because

it's involved in the flight or flight mechanism.

They found that when you remove this structure in the brain, you lose all your fear.

So one purpose of the amygdala is involved in fear, and that's a survival mechanism.

Because if you see a big snake that's going to eat you, you could run away.

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