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When you start to have a panic attack, you may experience the over whelming feeling that you are dying. This will not happen though, no matter how bad your attack is, you won't die. There is a multitude of reasons why people get panic attacks and sometimes they are unable to work out why they get them as they can see no apparent cause. In this article we show you how to deal with panic attacks.Whilst in the throes of an attack, you may experience some of the following most common symptoms such as, getting the chills or alternatively feeling a hot flush, being sick, the sensation of not being able to take a full breath, feeling as though you are being choked, a tight chest or a fast heart beat, a thumping heart.Even though you may have an overwhelming feeling that you are going to die or you will have a heart attack, there is actually nothing physically wrong with your heart to cause the reaction. The brain goes into overdrive during an attack and this causes stimulation of the nervous system.During an attack you start to over breathe which in turn means you produce and breathe out more carbon dioxide than normal. This then make the blood too acidic and it is the rising levels of acidity that gives you the symptoms that arise during the attack.Unless you can get your breathing under control you will keep having the attack, as the longer you hyperventilate the more symptoms you will produce. Which in turn will cause you to become more frightened and it will all just keep going round in circles. Whilst a very bad attack can come in peaks over a couple of hours, most will be over in about 10 minutes.More women than men have panic attacks and younger people are more likely to be effected than any other age group.Getting your breath under control is the single most important thing you can do to control your attack. Taking deep, slow breaths that fill your lungs will stop the carbon monoxide levels becoming high and should stop the symptoms that it produces from rising acidity levels. Many medics say that keeping a paper bag handy and using that to breathe into during an attack will help regain some control as if you concentrate on slowing and steadying your breathing in the bag, you will inhale the carbon monoxide back into your body and acidity levels will remain normal, ensuring symptoms do not escalate.Figuring out the reason why you have suddenly started to have panic attacks is an essential step in starting to cure them. For some the reasons may be obvious, such as a death in the family. Redundancy, stress in relationships and a generally stressful lifestyle can all contribute. Understanding the reasons and addressing it is important. Sometimes you will be unable to identify a reason.The more informed and knowledgeable you are about the way your body works and reacts during an attack will go some way in helping you to over come the problem.

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