Breathing - breathing is extremely important in this case because it will help decrease your heart rate, which will be elevated when you experience these panic attacks. Treat panic attacks by learning how to breathe in and out deeply in slow, controlled breathes. This will help keep you from hyperventilating, which can often happen when you experience panic attacks or anxiety attacks. Breathing in and out deeply will also help you relax and slowly calm yourself down until your panic attack episode is over.
• Revive yourself - whenever you feel a panic attack coming on, find a washroom that is nearest to you if possible and go and splash some cold water on your face until you have calmed down and let yourself return to normal. Splashing cold water from your face will revive you and sometimes it is a good way to clear your head and help collect your thoughts. The cold water tends to jolt you awake and re-alert all your senses, which is a good thing because it allows you to think more clearly and therefore, help reduce your panic attack episodes.
• Talk to someone you can trust - when you feel that you are about to experience a panic attack or an anxiety attack, quickly ring up a person you trust - if they are not already with you - and talk to them for a while until you feel better. You can call someone in your family, your best friend, anybody that you know you can trust and someone who is aware of your panic attacks. Talking to them will help distract you, calm you down and make you feel a whole lot better and this is one effective method of anxiety attack treatment that hardly fails.
Basically, the best thing to do is to distract yourself and calm yourself down whenever you feel an anxiety attack coming on, or you are already experiencing one, of you know of someone who does. Distraction is one of the best exercises you can practice on your own. Any exercise that calms you down, use that. It works.
