There are quite a number of excellent home treatment programs available to you in various formats. To evaluate and order, please click on the links below. First, however, please bookmark this page so that you can return here after evaluating each self-help resource.

1) This is a coaching series in downloadable video: Click Here!

2) The PanicAway program is another good choice: As with many of the products we recommend, it has a guarantee, is developed by a graduate level professional, and has excellent descriptions of both the problem and solution on the following page. Click Here!

3) The Linden method, another highly specialized approach to the treatment of panic attacks: Click Here!

4) An e-book with some fascinating approaches to the problem: Click Here!

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The results of a number of studies have suggested that certain nutritional remedies or supplements, especially those which are “precursors” to relevant neurotransmitters such as serotonin or norepinephrine, may be as helpful in the treatment of anxiety disorders as are serotonergic antidepressants. This is potentially a critical finding since supplements of this kind typically result in fewer side effects relative to those caused by antidepressants.

Sometimes I feel as though I’m going to suffocate when I’m panicky and anxious, like I can’t get enough air. What do I do? 

People who suffer from panic and anxiety attacks sometimes feel as though they “can’t get enough air” during these attacks. It is always a good idea to be checked medically for questions of this nature. If medical tests fail to show any physical basis for the problem, often the problem is due to a subtle level of hyperventilation which occurs outside of awareness. By subtle, I mean that the number of breaths per minute might increase from an average of 15 to as little as 18 or 19.

Over a period of several hours, this may cause a bit too much carbon dioxide, the gas that helps keep our blood vessels inflated, to lose a bit of this inflation, hence the feeling of a lack of oxygen. This is a false alarm. There is plenty of air even if it feels otherwise. You aren’t going to suffocate or pass out as a result of mild levels of hyperventilation. The problem isn’t a lack of oxygen but a lack of carbon dioxide.

The fix? Close your mouth. Breathe through your nose. Not fast, not slow, not deep, not shallow, just normal and relaxed. Breathe through your nose in a normal way and at a relaxed, normal rate – even if you have to force yourself to do so – and wait for the feeling of oxygen deprivation to leave. This may take a few minutes or longer; and while you are waiting, tell yourself there is plenty of air and that nothing bad is happening to you whatsoever. Run this experiment several times and see for yourself that you are safe.

I am recommending several books and workbooks just below, almost all of which originate from the cognitive-behavior therapy literature because behavioral and cognitive therapists have done prolific research, spanning 5 decades, on this disorder and have pioneered a number of effective therapies described in the books just below.

Dr. Barlow is considered by many to be the top researcher on this topic in the world, and Dr. Burns is similarly admired and respected. I went to the same internship as did Dr. Pollard and can therefore recommend his book very, very highly…and I’m also including on the “A” list a book by Dr. Claire Weekes, who was an original pioneer in the area.

Also, please take a look at some of the selections below, which offer similar perspectives but in unique, helpful ways:

Also, here is a complete Video Program for this problem. Please bookmark this page - so that you may easily return to our site - then Click Here! In the same way, please look at and evaluate another fine, self-help program developed by a psychologists specifically for the self-help therapy of panic and anxiety attacks: Click Here!

What are some of the signs and symptoms of Panic Disorder? Panic disorder sufferers usually have a series of intense episodes of extreme anxiety, known as panic attacks. A panic attack can wax and wane over a period of hours or disappear within minutes. Panic attacks can occur daily or much more infrequently. They may vary by intensity and by the subset of specific symptoms of panic that are experienced. Some individuals begin avoiding situations as a result of their panic disorder, in which case their problem is diagnosed as Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia. 

Symptoms include a feeling of impending doom; a need to escape the immediate situation or avoid any circumstance from which escape is difficult or impossible; a feeling of suffocation or lack of air; sweating, numbness, tingling, heart racing, dizziness, nausea, shaking, general and severe anxiety, fear of fainting, and/or many other variants of catastrophic thinking.

I am recommending several books and workbooks just below, almost all of which originate from the cognitive-behavior therapy literature because behavioral and cognitive therapists have done prolific research, spanning 5 decades, on this disorder and have pioneered a number of effective therapies described in the books just below.

Dr. Barlow is considered by many to be the top researcher on this topic in the world, and Dr. Burns is similarly admired and respected. I went to the same internship as did Dr. Pollard and can therefore recommend his book very, very highly…and I’m also including on the “A” list a book by Dr. Claire Weekes, who was an original pioneer in the area.

Also, please take a look at some of the selections below, which offer similar perspectives but in unique, helpful ways: