Bye Bye Panic

The Science Behind Panic Attacks (And How to Beat Them)


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For a long time, I thought anxiety and panic attacks were two completely different things.

Anxiety is like a storm you can see forming in the distance. On the other hand, a panic attack hits like a lightning strike – sudden, overwhelming, and impossible to ignore. One second, you're fine. The next, your heart is pounding, and it feels like the world is caving in.

So, I believed that if I could just stop the panic attacks, I’d be fine.

But then I noticed that as the panic attacks faded, the anxiety stuck around, sometimes even getting worse. It was like I had traded one problem for another – no matter what I did, my body was always on high alert.

I was actually dealing with two different masks of the same problem. And both of them were coming from the same place: a hypersensitive nervous system that had learned to see everyday life as a threat.

And that realization poses the key question: If it had learned to overreact why couldn’t it also learn to calm down?

That question is actually what this episode is all about – what’s really happening in your body when you’re constantly managing symptoms without ever finding real relief. And of course, how to retrain it to feel safe again.

Don't miss this one! Tune in now!

(This is an AI-generated episode inspired by my YouTube videos. I personally moderate these to share insights more efficiently, keeping the content informative yet completely free.)

Key Takeaways:

  • Introduction (00:00) 
  • Anxiety vs. panic attacks – key difference (00:55)
  • Reframing panic as an “adrenaline surge” (03:10)
  • The root cause of anxiety and panic (04:41)
  • How to calm your nervous system (07:31)
  • Trusting your body instead of fearing it (09:34)

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