AIIMS-trained neurologist explains how using a ‘simple paper bag’ can calm anxiety and help manage panic attacks

By breathing into a paper bag, a person suffering from panic attack can keep their carbon dioxide concentration and pH of the ...
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Psychotic Break or Panic Attack? Here’s How to Tell the Difference

Mental health isn’t always easy to decode. Sometimes a moment of terror can feel like reality itself is coming apart. Other times, the world really does start to ...
Rolling Out

What a panic attack does to you physically

Panic attacks extend far beyond psychological distress, manifesting as powerful physical experiences that can be mistaken for serious medical emergencies. The physical symptoms often prove so ...
Rethink Mental Illness

How do I manage a panic attack?

Having a panic attack? You're not alone. Learn how to ride it out with kind, practical steps—like grounding, breathing, and support. Help is here, right now.
Psychology Today

The Difference Between an Anxiety Attack and a Panic Attack

As both an anxiety therapist and someone who has personally experienced Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), panic disorder, OCD, and agoraphobia, I’ve heard countless descriptions of anxiety and panic ...
Psychology Today

How We Respond to Panic Attacks, and How We Can Do Better

I think there is a misapprehension that those of us in the mental-health field who write self-help books do so from a clinical distance and without personal experience with the content that we present ...
Rolling Stone

Gen Z Is Being Crushed by Anxiety. One Teen Is on a Mission to Help Them Cope

That was the day the floodgates opened: the October morning in 2022 that I couldn’t hold it down anymore. I’d been up all night sweating my academic future, sweating the New York Yankees’ future; ...