09/03/2026
Biggest problem of Panic Disorder is lack of info.
If the ones who prescribe all different kinds of pills for something they don’t understand & that may help short term?, or may hurt short, or long term, would fill the more important part of the need, more people WOULD be healed. So what is the primary need?
How about some info. on what possibly causes these feelings, for many? Like a misinterpretation, where the brain feels a normal bodily feeling, feels it is a threat & floods the body with stress hormones & prepares for fight or flight & causes most of the scary symptoms of fear, that are actually normal, non harmful feelings, for physically healthy persons.
What’s the probable primary cause? Like the flood of Adrenaline & Cortisol that causes racy heart & breathing, dizziness, sweating, shaking etc. for the fight/ flight mode, for a threat that doesn’t exist, which causes “what if” thoughts to start flooding the brain?
So what could be done to get out of the scary fight/flight mode quicker, other than pills? There is no magic pill! But the body releases calming hormones, that the sensitive nervous system needs help with, through relaxation, for them to work best, which is done via proper slow deep belly breathing, through the nose, slowly breathed out & grounding techniques, to take you out of your head & all the crazy thoughts & ground you back to the here & now, as you cannot concentrate on safe things here & unsafe scary thoughts in your head at the same time. Grounding is thinking about things that you can see, hear, touch, smell, taste etc. e.g. Quietly name 5 things you see, name & touch 4 things, name 3 things you are hearing, 2 things you smell & 1 that you taste, which sour candy helps the brain with this too. If you can shake out your arms, tense & release muscles & or do some quick exercise movements, it will help to burn of residual adrenaline.
What about explaining that all the scary symptoms, that stop us dead in our tracks, are actually all very normal nonharmful feelings, with logical explanations of why they are doing what they’re doing & how to help relieve them. These feelings include shaking, can’t breathe feeling, hot flashes & cold skin, chest pain, tunnel vision, bathroom issue, nausea etc. & as an e.g. on 1 that always scared me the worst “Tunnel vision” which Tunnel vision happens, as the body’s survival response (stress hormone release) dilates pupils to let in more light, to spot threats quickly, so the brain can focus on the (perceived) threat. The brain narrows visual processing, to the center, cutting off peripheral vision (side), so you can lock onto danger. So you can see this is not as bad as we may think & we can use relaxing techniques, breathing & grounding, while informing the brain that this is a normal, helpful, response that will not harm us & will end quickly.
So the point here is that Agoraphobia can be overtaken with education, understanding, a lot of baby steps through exposure, while grounding oneself. The worst fear for me was lack of knowing & understanding what this was, what was it going to do to me? Was there any way to battle it? & believing that it was a mental illness, from a “chemical imbalance”, to which there is not one Psych. In the world who can show any proof that there’s any such thing as a brain chemical imbalance causing anxiety, or depression & that is fact, as it doesn’t exist & probably never will, as they know very little about inside the brain, which may make you wonder how they prescribe so many med’s to change the brain, when they cannot honestly tell you why, can only tell you what they were told & may even believe? Good luck & Blessings, I truly hope this helps someone & will have new post in a day or so. Mike; youarenotaloneyouareamazingcom which will be updating with lots of helpful info. soon, please freely print, copy, share any of my knowledge, posts, website, with all who are suffering so that we can get all the info. possible out there helping the 100 million people suffering daily with these issues.
