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Panic Attack While Shopping Part 1 - Introduction
In this first part of a two-part series, Jenny introduces the causes of panic and anxiety attacks, sharing insights from her personal journey to becoming panic-free. She emphasizes the importance of u...
Panic Attack While Shopping Part 1 - Introduction
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Hi, this is Jenny, and this first of a two-part series serves as an introduction to help you
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better understand the causes of the many symptoms and sensations that you experience during panic
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and anxiety attacks.
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The second part will specifically support and instruct you if you're out shopping and
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you start to feel panicky or very anxious and what immediate help.
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I'll be right there with you to help you cope, calm down, and get back control.
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It's important to listen to this introduction before the second part in order to more
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fully understand those instructions.
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If you've been to a doctor and you're only diagnosis as anxiety or panic attacks, then
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I want to assure you that you are perfectly safe and in no danger, even though it may
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feel that way.
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The information contained in this audio is not intended to serve as a replacement for professional,
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medical, or psychological advice.
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First, I'd like you to know that I speak from personal experience as a former sufferer.
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I struggled with generalized anxiety and panic attacks for 20 long years before I taught
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myself how to be panic-free, not just cope with it.
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I did extensive research and through trial and error found out what works and what doesn't.
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Since teaching myself, I've taught countless others how to be panic-free through one-on-one
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counseling, group counseling, and through my radio interviews.
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You need to know that all of the intense and frightening symptoms and sensations that
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you feel are caused by adrenaline, cortisol, and other stress hormones being released into
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your blood strain, and also at the nerve endings of the different organs of your body.
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It's really important for you to understand that because that's the cause of the many
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strange and intense sensations that you feel in your heart and your stomach, your lungs,
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and other places during times of panic and high anxiety.
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The problem is that once that adrenaline is released into your system, it must run its
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course.
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Antelita, minute and fades away.
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You can't wish it away or fight it.
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So it's important to allow it to fade without getting unduly alarmed and adding still more
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stress hormones into your system, which only repeats the cycle and symptoms.
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This release of adrenaline can happen in a flash and the blink of an eye, leaving
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it to feel very bewildered and frightened, unable to understand what is happening to you.
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This reaction is a fight or flight mechanism that the body undergoes in order to prepare
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you to fight or to flee if you are in any danger.
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And I think you agree that this is a very necessary function.
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But when there is no apparent reason or real danger, no train coming at you, no tiger chasing
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you, and your body releases that adrenaline into your system as if you were in real danger,
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you may then begin to feel very anxious, bewildered and panicky.
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You might feel your heart pounding or skipping beats, you might start sweating,
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or your breathing can grow shallow, feeling like you can't get enough air,
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or you might get a sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach, or your legs might feel weak
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and kind of jelly-like, you might feel giddy or dizzy, maybe even lightheaded, and even get hot
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flashes. You might feel some pressure spots in your head, numbness or tingling in your hands and
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feet, as well as other intense symptoms and sensations. But you are not sick and you are not
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going insane. What you are experiencing is exaggerated stress symptoms.
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It's vital for you to understand that as bad as all of that feels, you are in no danger.
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You are going to be just fine. These exaggerated stress symptoms are not life threatening.
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They just feel that way. You may have discovered that it doesn't work to try and fight or outrun
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the symptoms. It just makes matters worse. To find out what does work, please come along with
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me to part two. As I said earlier, you can listen to it, should panic strike while you're out shopping.
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I'll be right there with you to support you and instruct you on how to cope and calm down
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and gain back control and stop the panic. You won't be powerless. But if you would like to learn
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how to actually prevent panic from happening at all, not just cope with it, please visit my website.
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Learn a better way.com. I have a very unique, practical, all natural and easy to follow
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program that is tried and true. It will teach you how to completely eliminate panic and
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high anxiety from your life. You don't need to suffer from panic anymore.
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Thank you for listening to this introduction. I wish you a happy, healthy, panic-free life.
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May you be blessed in every way.