12:14 a.m. - 2010-07-12
Panic Attacks Driving - End Your Panic Attacks While Driving

Have you ever experienced panic attacks driving? Sweaty palms clutching the steering wheel, heart racing, chest pain, things coming in and out of focus as you frantically attempt to get to the side of the street, and your mind racing are all symptoms of having panic attacks driving.

Panic attacks on the road are not a lot different from an off the road panic attack. No breed of panic attack is a relief to hear about, but understanding what brings them on could be of great help in overcoming them.

In general a panic attack will be spurred on by a single scary or anxious thought. You'll go over this thought again and again, making it worse each time. As this distressing thought or scenario becomes more and more real for you, your body will respond as if it has already occurred.

One way to approach stopping it is by breaking the thought loop. If you go over the same thought again and again it will become stronger and harder to stop the cycle, so know the pattern and catch it early. In Neuro-Linguistic Programming(NLP) this technique is known as a pattern interrupt.

If you've ever been in a conversation and someone says something so completely random and off the wall from the subject matter that you just stop what you were thinking to all at once go, "WHAT?" This is a pattern interrupt. This mental stun grenade can be added to your arsenal should you learn how to do it correctly. This same power can be used to short-circuit your panic attacks.

If you need an example of good pattern interrupts, a weird motion, using strange voices, yelling lyrics to children's songs, or any combination thereof can work quite well. If it seems crazy and you wouldn't think of it or do it in a million years, that's perfect.Do this enough and you will eventually break the pattern altogether.

But why do panic attacks driving occur? Like most anxiety attacks this usually stems from one time where you were extremely anxious and it eventually escalated. That memory becomes so engrained in your psyche a part of you focuses on it, you become afraid of the attack itself, which heightens your anxiety. Typically it isn't the driving that's scaring you, but the fears you've associated with driving due largely to that original attack.

In extreme instances, it can be all but impossible to stop anxiety attacks utilizing traditional methods, but there is hope. This hope is in a extremely powerful technique, called the "One Move Technique." It is designed to end your fears of the attack itself instantly. When this happens your anxiety is lowered, and with it, the chance of a recurrence of a panic attack.

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