Cara
No that is wrong. Stress and anxiety are a normal part of life and do not cause panic attacks directly. They do weaken your resistance and allow your negative attitude to open you up to your triggers. But it is still you that causes the panic to become an attack. CBT works directly on you not on the surrounding stress or anxiety. You can remove both of those and still have attacks. You can have panic attacks in a perfectly peaceful situation because it is not the situation that causes them it is your thought patterns. Everything else is just a trigger. And no, removing the trigger will not stop them, you will just find another trigger.
Beware of sites selling books on how to reduce stress and anxiety, They will not cure panic attacks. Like the pills they will leave you a zombie or worse a rabbit scared of your shadow. Beware of half baked ideas that sort of work only and only for a while. Like the pills all of these only work for a while. There is only one cure for Panic attacks and that is changing thought patterns. Everything else is only an adjunct to make it easier. Believe me I went down all these wrong roads. There is only one book that is any good and it mirrors this site so why pay for something you can get free.
I do not have panic attacks any more. I have anxiety and buckets of stress, physical and mental and some times for a few minutes I even panic but I do not have panic attacks. Ever. I have control and that is the best it gets no matter what some phoney Doctors selling books tell you.
Feel free to disagree with me and feel free to waste years, and I mean years looking for a magic cure.
There are none and there are no tips there is only one solution and unfortunately a lot of people can not or will not do it.
Which makes me wonder why I am here. I'm as cured as cured gets for the majority of people that stick it out. I know what works and what in the long run is a waste of time.
I have wrote a short book on this but won't publish so it can sit on a shelf. CBT is not easy for some but it does work for all. All that stick to it that is.
For all the people reading this that disagree, what has cured you other than CBT. I'll gladly prove you wrong. I'll gladly prove your cure is nothing but a bandaid covering up a problem. And it won't cost you anything, I'm not trying to sell my book.
Cara, I am sorry there is no easy answer for you, but this is not Cancer it is curable. But it takes time and you can not bend it to your way of thinking. You must follow it, let it lead. And that was hard for me because I am not a follower.
Davit
