Anxiety And Panic Attacks. The Importance Of Creativity In Overcoming Them

2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43

A panic attack is extremely difficult, if not impossible, simply to crush by willpower. You can't just say to yourself “don't be nervous” and thus extinguish everything. This can work if the frontal cortex has a calming touch, and you automatically believe that everything is not so scary and everything is surmountable. If this is not the case, usually anxiety suppression works in a completely different way. Anxiety builds up like a snowball and becomes poorly managed.

First, you have to admit to allow yourself to be afraid and anxious. But within some certain framework and limits. What is this beyond, everyone must determine independently. That is, accept panic and anxiety, expand mentally and analyze as much as possible. It will not work to disassemble it in detail due to self-bias. In fact, it doesn't matter. It is important to see the main thing. There is something that we can control, and there are things that are uncontrollable and uncontrollable. It is clear that those causes of our anxiety, which we can eliminate on a pragmatic level, must be eliminated in order to unload the nervous system. However, what to do with what we do not manage.

People are often anxious and agitated for reasons that we cannot control. The need to control makes them difficult to do this because they begin to contemplate the worst outcome of situations or events beyond their control. On the one hand, this is a good adaptive technique, because the anxiety put on an object or situation turns into the category of more easily tolerated fears. Fear, in turn, lends itself to logical analysis and gives a sense of security. Such activity is rewarded with dopamine, which leads to fixation of this way of thinking about problems. Especially in people with developed intelligence and the ability to "wind up". In addition, violent mental activity completely absorbs a person. As a result, due to the constant translation of anxiety and panic into fear with the help of inventing reasons, a person ceases to solve current life problems, which further traumatizes.

Therefore, one of the ways to deal with panic and anxiety is to systematically wean oneself from winding up and intellectualizing. That is, noticing anxiety on the way, try to reflect and separate significant causes of anxiety from insignificant or pragmatically resolved ones. And, as a rule, most of the anxiety melts away due to the failure of the causes that cause it.

In the beginning, it will be very difficult to change behavioral and cognitive stereotypes. Will be pulling to try to deal with the anxiety in the usual way. But such a creative approach frees up a lot of time and effort. Instead of wasting intellectual resources dressing anxiety in the clothes of fear, the person simply experiences the anxiety. But only that portion of it that is really impossible to control. This acceptance allows you to go about your daily activities, live your life brightly. And anxiety and residual panic attacks are deactivated and melt away like spring snow.

In my video, I talk about the importance of creative adjustment in panic attacks. You can come across many different ways of "self-healing" that have worked for someone and do not work for you. To find your way, it is very important to be creative about your problem.