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Elena Touroni, a private psychologist based in Chelsea, talks about the kinds of strategies patients can use to tackle panic attacks, from relaxation techniques to mindfulness. https://www.thechelseapsychologyclinic.com Chelsea Psychology Clinic are a group of London psychologists and psychiatrists offering private psychological therapy and psychiatry treatment from their premises across central London and Chelsea. The private therapy sessions cover the following areas: – Acceptance & Commitment Therapy – Cognitive Analytic Therapy – Cognitive-behavioural Therapy – Couples Therapy – Dialectical-behaviour Therapy – Mentalisation Based Treatment – Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy – Schema Therapy
Video Transcription
You can learn a whole range of relaxation techniques in order to better manage panic attacks. Usually, when we have a panic attack, our breathing is fairly out of control, our heart might be beating very fast. And we might be making all sorts of interpretations of what’s happening in the situation where we might be interpreting the symptoms of the panic attack as having a more physiological course which makes us much more frightened. So you can learn ways of using both relaxation strategies to slow down your breathing, to slow down your thinking, as well as mindfulness-based strategies to be able to stay in the present moment. Notice your emotions, the anxious feelings that you have during a panic attack as a wave that comes and goes and wait until your anxiety dissipates. We also can learn to manage panic attacks by challenging the thoughts that we have, by reminding ourselves that actually what we’re experiencing in the moment is just a panic attack. It isn’t a heart attack. It isn’t something much more sinister and dangerous. And it’s just an emotional response that our body has now that has become very out of control and very generalised to situations that aren’t really threatening. And that it’s something that will dissipate because all emotions peak and then dissipate in time.
