Panic attack symptoms can be extremely different from one person to the next, but one thing that is always the same if you're experiencing these symptoms is that they are unpleasant, frightening, and very difficult to stop.
But they're not all bad.
Did you know that you can actually use panic attack symptoms to help reduce and even eliminate your anxiety and the problems it causes you? Well, you can, and it's all based on using the symptoms as an early indicator that a full blown panic attack is on its way.
Think of the symptoms as the same as dashboard lights in a car, which come on to warn you when something's gone wrong.
When the oil light comes on in your car, for example, you know that the oil needs topping up or changing, and you do it before any further damage is caused.
And you can use your panic attack symptoms in just the same way.
All you have to do is start taking note of which symptoms you experience right before your anxiety increases.
If you experience palpitations prior to attacks, for example, then palpitations will become your new warning sign.
And instead of trying to avoid the panic and fight off the attack, you're simply going to do whatever it takes to stop the symptom instead.
In the palpitations example, that might mean taking some deep breaths.
If your early warning symptom was sweating, then you might remove some clothes when you first notice sweating, and so on.
The key here is that you're addressing the early symptoms and not the panic attack itself, and when you stop those symptoms very early on, you'll find the attack often never happens.