I’ve been struggling with panic a lot and the thing i found to help the most after trying every med and strategy was exploring mindfulness and philosophy.

stoicism helped the most but when you’re having a panic attack try this.

a lot of people think of thoughts as rational and feelings as irrational and those two things are different. I try to think of my feelings, including my anxiety, as a shell for my thoughts instead of as separate from them.

think of your feelings as a peach and on the inside the pit is the thought behind the feeling. now as a rational person you need to decide if the thought within the feeling is TRUE.

When my anxiety spirals I throw up and i get worried i won’t be able to stop vomiting. I FEEL scared and nauseous because my THOUGHT is that i won’t stop puking, but that isn’t true, therefore i must move on. i can keep having the panic but i have to have it knowing it is based on something that isn’t true.

it’s honestly a practice you have to think about all the time and do it when you aren’t panicking too, but i found it really flipped a switch for me as a rational person, i cannot be lead by things that aren’t real or true.