2.When sufferer is having a panic attack get a wet washer and place it on their forehead and around their face.

3. Stay reassuring and let them know they will be ok

4.If sufferer constantly asks for trips to hospital and visits to doctor, get them to write out everything they think they are suffering from. Every ache every pain. Be persistent in fact they must not miss writing down one thing. Hold onto that piece of paper and schedule a doctor’s appointment for them. Accompany them at visit and be firm with doctor that you would like this investigated further. Sometimes there can be an underlying illness that has triggered anxiety and panic disorder.

5.Guide them to information that can help them with Anxiety and Panic Attacks (The more they are educated on Anxiety and Panic Attacks less frightening attacks often become, especially information that is written by former sufferers, it assures sufferer they are not alone and they really can overcome it)

6.If they ask something of you that is unrealistic or interferes with something you already had planned, be firm and say no. You need your time too.

7.Don’t become “their crutch”. If you run to every beck and call they will not learn to help themselves. And as scary and frightening as it might be, only way they will become well again will be through helping themselves.

Ensure that while caring for an anxiety and panic sufferer that you also take time for yourself. Your health and well-being is important too!

© Joanne King - http://www.anxiety-panic-free.com

As you go through day, do you have high levels of energy to do whatever you want to do? Do you have energy levels to carry you right through day? Or do you get sluggish and tired during parts of day, especially after lunch? This is a symptom.

Do you experience stress? This is a symptom as well. Why is it that one air traffic controller goes home stressed out of his mind, and another air traffic controller sitting right next to him goes home perfectly fine? What is difference? It is not job. They both have same job. The difference is how individual people respond to different situations. The healthier you are, less stress you experience, no matter what is happening in environment.

There are many more things, just like this, that many people accept as something they “have to” have, something they just must deal with because of circumstances. And this is simply not true. The full potential of health, to me, is that of a four- year-old child.

When is last time someone had to fight you to get you to go to bed at night? When is last time someone had to bargain with you to get you to take a nap? When is last time you ran to car, just because you could? Or even better, had a contest to see who could run “over there” quickest, and then when you got there, had a contest to run back to exactly where you started? Or just ran anywhere, simply because you could and because you were in love with life, and wanted to do as much as possible? You don’t see kids getting up in morning, rubbing their eyes, scratching their butts, staggering around with their cup of juice, reading their Fisher-Price books before they finally wake up. When kids get up, they are up, ready to take on day. This is starting, and I mean only starting, to point to what having health really and fully means. You can begin to start forming what your target of health actually looks like. In one of later lessons I am going to help you form your target of health. But first, we need to help you discover false beliefs you have happily accepted about health that are just not true. Because it is what you know that just ain't so that prevents you from achieving true health