What’s the best therapy/treatment for panic attacks?
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Panic attacks can be treated although far too many people suffer in silence. There is nothing wrong with having a panic attack; it doesn’t mean you’re weak or defective.
In fact most people experience some kind of panic in their lives. The most important thing is to seek help! The best therapies for panic attacks seem to be based on the Cognitive Behavioural Therapy model. Also the techniques for overcoming anxiety and panic attacks pioneered by Clare Weekes are useful. Some people believe that it is important to get to the route of the panic attacks by using regression under hypnosis or psychoanalysis.
Certainly many people have had success through doing this. Even in these cases it is believed that a degree of understanding of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy techniques is extremely useful in order to undo the learned responses that play such a huge role in panic attacks. Your doctor may also prescribe various medicines.
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