This week on the anxious truth we're going to talk about panic attacks that come out of

nowhere out of the blue. It's incredibly frustrating so let's get into it. Hello, Hello everybody welcome back to the anxious truth this is episode

294 of the podcast we are recording in June of 2024 I'm losing track of time

quickly I am Drew Linselada, greater and host of the

anxious truth. This is the podcast that covers all things anxiety, really anxiety

disorders and anxiety recovery. So if you've accidentally stumbled upon the

podcast or the YouTube channel for the first time today based on some random Google search or something like that.

Welcome. I hope you find what we're doing here helpful or useful in some way.

And of course if you are a returning

listener or viewer welcome back thank you for your continued support of the work that I

do here on this podcast today we are going to talk about panic attacks that come out of the blue or from nowhere or it's often expressed in the community as I wasn't anxious about anything. I wasn't thinking any particular anxious thoughts and yet I had a panic attack.

But here's the rub and write this down, you know have to write it down, just remember it because

we're going to talk about that as we go into this episode.

There really is no such thing as an out of the blue panic attack.

There isn't. So we're going to talk about that because sometimes this is counterintuitive,

especially if you're spending a lot of time trying to figure out what triggers your panic attacks and then try to manage or avoid those triggers, which is a common sense approach that most people at least try and then wind up maybe stuck on a little bit of a

merry-go-round and we're going to talk about why that is. Before we get into the

episode just two things. If you listen to Disordered which is the podcast I do with

Josh Fletcher you can find that one at disorder dot fm the one I did last week with

Dr Stephen Hayes on act was great but I was sick when I recorded that one I'm

still sick now this is kind of kicking my butt. So I'm going to do the best I can to muddle through this episode.

I may wind up coughing at you once or twice. I'm really sorry about that. I'm just going to try and get through it as best I can because I really do want to do an episode this week and the second thing is before we get into the topic at hand just a quick reminder that there's a ton of other anxiety and recovery resources on my website at the

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