For those who want to know what you should say during a panic attack, we're going to use our personal and professional experience to guide you through it.

And so I didn't have a lot of success trying to talk myself through a panic attack, so I didn't do a lot of that.

When I told myself it's just anxiety, I didn't say it as a kind of magical spell to make the anxiety go away.

And my number one go to was, we've been here before.

Like, and it's never taken me down.

And then I would pretty much go silent.

It was often, you know, followed by the silent caveat of he's supposed to feel scared.

So to me, it's always the idea that I can acknowledge that you are genuinely terrified,

but to remind you that you've been there before and you're capable of moving through that.

One of your options is you don't have to say anything. It's completely fine.

Welcome to the Disordid Podcast. This is episode 7.

And the title of this episode is named after a question that both Drew and I received.

Ollie asks, how to talk to yourself during a panic attack or what should you say during a panic attack?

And what a great episode title that follows on from our last episode.

My name's Joshua Fletcher, also known as Anxiety Josh, and I'm a psychotherapist who specializes

in anxiety based in the UK.

And I am Drew Lin-Salada.

I am a graduate student in clinical mental health counseling, a therapist in training in the U.S. in the state of New York, and the co-host of

Disordered with anxiety, Josh. Yeah, disordered hosts, distorted podcast, distorted content.

It all fits together, man. Yeah, but it all fits together yeah i like that um first of all before we

get into this episode i think it's quite helpful to listen to the previous episode if you haven't

because this is kind of a part two but for those who want to know like what you should say during

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