The Science Behind Panic Attacks (And How to Beat Them)

Bye Bye Panic · Feb 13, 2025 · 16m

For a long time, I thought anxiety and panic attacks were two completely different things.

Anxiety is like a storm you can see forming in the distance. On the other hand, a panic attack hits like a lightning strike – sudden, overwhelming, and impossible to ignore. One second, you're fine. The next, your heart is pounding, and it feels like the world is caving in.

So, I believed that if I could just stop the panic attacks, I’d be fine.

But then I noticed that as the panic attacks faded, the anxiety stuck around, sometimes even getting worse. It was like I had traded one problem for another –…