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How to Stop Panic Attacks Part 3/3

In the previous video we talked about the panic attack cycle, First comes a sensation or feeling. Second, you judge that feeling to be unacceptable, bad, or dangerous. Then this triggers an escalating fight, flight freeze response and your brain learns that panic and anxiety are dangerous. So let’s take a deeper look at each step. Two, the thoughts that transform a physical sensation into something we interpret as dangerous Here are common ways of thinking that trigger panic attacks. It would be disastrous if I had […]

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How Anxiety Affects the Brain 9/30 How to Recognize and Turn off the Fight/Flight/Freeze Response

  This may surprise some of you to hear, but when I teach in front of a large group I get nervous, My hands start sweating and they go ice cold. I sometimes get shaky in my voice, or I often get that like crazy, stinky, armpit, sweat And even though I enjoy presenting and teaching what’s happening in my brain is that it sees all these people in the audience as a threat, and it essentially turns off the thinking part of my brain, It pumps […]

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