HOW TO HAVE A PERFECT PANIC ATTACK. A STEP BY STEP GUIDE. INSPIRED BY THE WORDS OF PATRIK ROCHE.
Find the trigger / A job interview, the claustrophobia of mass transit, deciding what to have for dinner / This is ideal, but may not be possible for everyone / Your body will instinctively revert to its most primal state fearing for your life / Your sympathetic nervous system will activate its fight or flight response in the face of this perceived danger / this decision between Nandos and Chinese / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes / Follow these instructions closely to make the most of this time / Your breathing is the only part of this process you can control. Do not. / This would drastically shorten the attack / Focus on the constricting of your rib cage, on your drum major heart conducting this frantic march / Mistake this for a heart attack or a stroke / If successful, you may lose control of your extremities / The caveman in your limbs will tense every muscle to flee his predator / Your arms and legs will go numb, starting at your hands and feet / Every twitch and tingle and attempt to run for your life / Stay in place. Do not go for a walk. Do not call your friends, your mother, your psychiatrist, an ambulance / By now, you should be in a full panic / Hyperventilation cutting off oxygen to your brain / You will feel faint, become certain of your own death / Do not call your friends. Do not call your mother. Do not call your psychiatrist / A panic attack is a remarkably solitary experience / The presence of another person could have a calming effect and cut the attack short / Resist the temptation to fumble a hand through the desk drawer for the meditation you’ve been prescribed for this / Instead, locate the toolkit your grandfather gave you three years ago when he told you, “I’m giving you this, so you can fix anything.” / Place it on the desk. Open it. Steady your right hand long enough to grasp the pen knife. / Note how close the blood vessels lie beneath the sheets of your skin. / At this point, your panic attack may begin to ebb. / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes / As your breathing and heart rate steady, find a bottle of water to hydrate yourself / Drop the penknife into the bin / Return the toolkit to the desk drawer / Distract yourself with a walk or TV show / Your body will assume it has survived for another today / Until the next trigger, at which point, you will repeat the process / but do remember, you are not having a heart attack / You are not dying / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes, and in that time, / every piece of you, every basic primal piece of you, is screaming for you to survive. // Find the trigger / A job interview, the claustrophobia of mass transit, deciding what to have for dinner / This is ideal, but may not be possible for everyone / Your body will instinctively revert to its most primal state fearing for your life / Your sympathetic nervous system will activate its fight or flight response in the face of this perceived danger / this decision between Nandos and Chinese / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes / Follow these instructions closely to make the most of this time / Your breathing is the only part of this process you can control. Do not. / This would drastically shorten the attack / Focus on the constricting of your rib cage, on your drum major heart conducting this frantic march / Mistake this for a heart attack or a stroke / If successful, you may lose control of your extremities / The caveman in your limbs will tense every muscle to flee his predator / Your arms and legs will go numb, starting at your hands and feet / Every twitch and tingle and attempt to run for your life / Stay in place. Do not go for a walk. Do not call your friends, your mother, your psychiatrist, an ambulance / By now, you should be in a full panic / Hyperventilation cutting off oxygen to your brain / You will feel faint, become certain of your own death / Do not call your friends. Do not call your mother. Do not call your psychiatrist / A panic attack is a remarkably solitary experience / The presence of another person could have a calming effect and cut the attack short / Resist the temptation to fumble a hand through the desk drawer for the meditation you’ve been prescribed for this / Instead, locate the toolkit your grandfather gave you three years ago when he told you, “I’m giving you this, so you can fix anything.” / Place it on the desk. Open it. Steady your right hand long enough to grasp the pen knife. / Note how close the blood vessels lie beneath the sheets of your skin. / At this point, your panic attack may begin to ebb. / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes / As your breathing and heart rate steady, find a bottle of water to hydrate yourself / Drop the penknife into the bin / Return the toolkit to the desk drawer / Distract yourself with a walk or TV show / Your body will assume it has survived for another today / Until the next trigger, at which point, you will repeat the process / but do remember, you are not having a heart attack / You are not dying / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes, and in that time, / every piece of you, every basic primal piece of you, is screaming for you to survive. // Find the trigger / A job interview, the claustrophobia of mass transit, deciding what to have for dinner / This is ideal, but may not be possible for everyone / Your body will instinctively revert to its most primal state fearing for your life / Your sympathetic nervous system will activate its fight or flight response in the face of this perceived danger / this decision between Nandos and Chinese / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes / Follow these instructions closely to make the most of this time / Your breathing is the only part of this process you can control. Do not. / This would drastically shorten the attack / Focus on the constricting of your rib cage, on your drum major heart conducting this frantic march / Mistake this for a heart attack or a stroke / If successful, you may lose control of your extremities / The caveman in your limbs will tense every muscle to flee his predator / Your arms and legs will go numb, starting at your hands and feet / Every twitch and tingle and attempt to run for your life / Stay in place. Do not go for a walk. Do not call your friends, your mother, your psychiatrist, an ambulance / By now, you should be in a full panic / Hyperventilation cutting off oxygen to your brain / You will feel faint, become certain of your own death / Do not call your friends. Do not call your mother. Do not call your psychiatrist / A panic attack is a remarkably solitary experience / The presence of another person could have a calming effect and cut the attack short / Resist the temptation to fumble a hand through the desk drawer for the meditation you’ve been prescribed for this / Instead, locate the toolkit your grandfather gave you three years ago when he told you, “I’m giving you this, so you can fix anything.” / Place it on the desk. Open it. Steady your right hand long enough to grasp the pen knife. / Note how close the blood vessels lie beneath the sheets of your skin. / At this point, your panic attack may begin to ebb. / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes / As your breathing and heart rate steady, find a bottle of water to hydrate yourself / Drop the penknife into the bin / Return the toolkit to the desk drawer / Distract yourself with a walk or TV show / Your body will assume it has survived for another today / Until the next trigger, at which point, you will repeat the process / but do remember, you are not having a heart attack / You are not dying / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes, and in that time, / every piece of you, every basic primal piece of you, is screaming for you to survive. // Find the trigger / A job interview, the claustrophobia of mass transit, deciding what to have for dinner / This is ideal, but may not be possible for everyone / Your body will instinctively revert to its most primal state fearing for your life / Your sympathetic nervous system will activate its fight or flight response in the face of this perceived danger / this decision between Nandos and Chinese / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes / Follow these instructions closely to make the most of this time / Your breathing is the only part of this process you can control. Do not. / This would drastically shorten the attack / Focus on the constricting of your rib cage, on your drum major heart conducting this frantic march / Mistake this for a heart attack or a stroke / If successful, you may lose control of your extremities / The caveman in your limbs will tense every muscle to flee his predator / Your arms and legs will go numb, starting at your hands and feet / Every twitch and tingle and attempt to run for your life / Stay in place. Do not go for a walk. Do not call your friends, your mother, your psychiatrist, an ambulance / By now, you should be in a full panic / Hyperventilation cutting off oxygen to your brain / You will feel faint, become certain of your own death / Do not call your friends. Do not call your mother. Do not call your psychiatrist / A panic attack is a remarkably solitary experience / The presence of another person could have a calming effect and cut the attack short / Resist the temptation to fumble a hand through the desk drawer for the meditation you’ve been prescribed for this / Instead, locate the toolkit your grandfather gave you three years ago when he told you, “I’m giving you this, so you can fix anything.” / Place it on the desk. Open it. Steady your right hand long enough to grasp the pen knife. / Note how close the blood vessels lie beneath the sheets of your skin. / At this point, your panic attack may begin to ebb. / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes / As your breathing and heart rate steady, find a bottle of water to hydrate yourself / Drop the penknife into the bin / Return the toolkit to the desk drawer / Distract yourself with a walk or TV show / Your body will assume it has survived for another today / Until the next trigger, at which point, you will repeat the process / but do remember, you are not having a heart attack / You are not dying / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes, and in that time, / every piece of you, every basic primal piece of you, is screaming for you to survive. // Find the trigger / A job interview, the claustrophobia of mass transit, deciding what to have for dinner / This is ideal, but may not be possible for everyone / Your body will instinctively revert to its most primal state fearing for your life / Your sympathetic nervous system will activate its fight or flight response in the face of this perceived danger / this decision between Nandos and Chinese / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes / Follow these instructions closely to make the most of this time / Your breathing is the only part of this process you can control. Do not. / This would drastically shorten the attack / Focus on the constricting of your rib cage, on your drum major heart conducting this frantic march / Mistake this for a heart attack or a stroke / If successful, you may lose control of your extremities / The caveman in your limbs will tense every muscle to flee his predator / Your arms and legs will go numb, starting at your hands and feet / Every twitch and tingle and attempt to run for your life / Stay in place. Do not go for a walk. Do not call your friends, your mother, your psychiatrist, an ambulance / By now, you should be in a full panic / Hyperventilation cutting off oxygen to your brain / You will feel faint, become certain of your own death / Do not call your friends. Do not call your mother. Do not call your psychiatrist / A panic attack is a remarkably solitary experience / The presence of another person could have a calming effect and cut the attack short / Resist the temptation to fumble a hand through the desk drawer for the meditation you’ve been prescribed for this / Instead, locate the toolkit your grandfather gave you three years ago when he told you, “I’m giving you this, so you can fix anything.” / Place it on the desk. Open it. Steady your right hand long enough to grasp the pen knife. / Note how close the blood vessels lie beneath the sheets of your skin. / At this point, your panic attack may begin to ebb. / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes / As your breathing and heart rate steady, find a bottle of water to hydrate yourself / Drop the penknife into the bin / Return the toolkit to the desk drawer / Distract yourself with a walk or TV show / Your body will assume it has survived for another today / Until the next trigger, at which point, you will repeat the process / but do remember, you are not having a heart attack / You are not dying / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes, and in that time, / every piece of you, every basic primal piece of you, is screaming for
you to survive. // Find the trigger / A job interview, the claustrophobia of mass transit, deciding what to have for dinner / This is ideal, but may not be possible for everyone / Your body will instinctively revert to its most primal state fearing for your life / Your sympathetic nervous system will activate its fight or flight response in the face of this perceived danger / this decision between Nandos and Chinese / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes / Follow these instructions closely to make the most of this time / Your breathing is the only part of this process you can control. Do not. / This would drastically shorten the attack / Focus on the constricting of your rib cage, on your drum major heart conducting this frantic march / Mistake this for a heart attack or a stroke / If successful, you may lose control of your extremities / The caveman in your limbs will tense every muscle to flee his predator / Your arms and legs will go numb, starting at your hands and feet / Every twitch and tingle and attempt to run for your life / Stay in place. Do not go for a walk. Do not call your friends, your mother, your psychiatrist, an ambulance / By now, you should be in a full panic / Hyperventilation cutting off oxygen to your brain / You will feel faint, become certain of your own death / Do not call your friends. Do not call your mother. Do not call your psychiatrist / A panic attack is a remarkably solitary experience / The presence of another person could have a calming effect and cut the attack short / Resist the temptation to fumble a hand through the desk drawer for the meditation you’ve been prescribed for this / Instead, locate the toolkit your grandfather gave you three years ago when he told you, “I’m giving you this, so you can fix anything.” / Place it on the desk. Open it. Steady your right hand long enough to grasp the pen knife. / Note how close the blood vessels lie beneath the sheets of your skin. / At this point, your panic attack may begin to ebb. / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes / As your breathing and heart rate steady, find a bottle of water to hydrate yourself / Drop the penknife into the bin / Return the toolkit to the desk drawer / Distract yourself with a walk or TV show / Your body will assume it has survived for another today / Until the next trigger, at which point, you will repeat the process / but do remember, you are not having a heart attack / You are not dying / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes, and in that time, / every piece of you, every basic primal piece of you, is screaming for you to survive. // Find the trigger / A job interview, the claustrophobia of mass transit, deciding what to have for dinner / This is ideal, but may not be possible for everyone / Your body will instinctively revert to its most primal state fearing for your life / Your sympathetic nervous system will activate its fight or flight response in the face of this perceived danger / this decision between Nandos and Chinese / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes / Follow these instructions closely to make the most of this time / Your breathing is the only part of this process you can control. Do not. / This would drastically shorten the attack / Focus on the constricting of your rib cage, on your drum major heart conducting this frantic march / Mistake this for a heart attack or a stroke / If successful, you may lose control of your extremities / The caveman in your limbs will tense every muscle to flee his predator / Your arms and legs will go numb, starting at your hands and feet / Every twitch and tingle and attempt to run for your life / Stay in place. Do not go for a walk. Do not call your friends, your mother, your psychiatrist, an ambulance / By now, you should be in a full panic / Hyperventilation cutting off oxygen to your brain / You will feel faint, become certain of your own death / Do not call your friends. Do not call your mother. Do not call your psychiatrist / A panic attack is a remarkably solitary experience / The presence of another person could have a calming effect and cut the attack short / Resist the temptation to fumble a hand through the desk drawer for the meditation you’ve been prescribed for this / Instead, locate the toolkit your grandfather gave you three years ago when he told you, “I’m giving you this, so you can fix anything.” / Place it on the desk. Open it. Steady your right hand long enough to grasp the pen knife. / Note how close the blood vessels lie beneath the sheets of your skin. / At this point, your panic attack may begin to ebb. / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes / As your breathing and heart rate steady, find a bottle of water to hydrate yourself / Drop the penknife into the bin / Return the toolkit to the desk drawer / Distract yourself with a walk or TV show / Your body will assume it has survived for another today / Until the next trigger, at which point, you will repeat the process / but do remember, you are not having a heart attack / You are not dying / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes, and in that time, / every piece of you, every basic primal piece of you, is screaming for you to survive. // Find the trigger / A job interview, the claustrophobia of mass transit, deciding what to have for dinner / This is ideal, but may not be possible for everyone / Your body will instinctively revert to its most primal state fearing for your life / Your sympathetic nervous system will activate its fight or flight response in the face of this perceived danger / this decision between Nandos and Chinese / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes / Follow these instructions closely to make the most of this time / Your breathing is the only part of this process you can control. Do not. / This would drastically shorten the attack / Focus on the constricting of your rib cage, on your drum major heart conducting this frantic march / Mistake this for a heart attack or a stroke / If successful, you may lose control of your extremities / The caveman in your limbs will tense every muscle to flee his predator / Your arms and legs will go numb, starting at your hands and feet / Every twitch and tingle and attempt to run for your life / Stay in place. Do not go for a walk. Do not call your friends, your mother, your psychiatrist, an ambulance / By now, you should be in a full panic / Hyperventilation cutting off oxygen to your brain / You will feel faint, become certain of your own death / Do not call your friends. Do not call your mother. Do not call your psychiatrist / A panic attack is a remarkably solitary experience / The presence of another person could have a calming effect and cut the attack short / Resist the temptation to fumble a hand through the desk drawer for the meditation you’ve been prescribed for this / Instead, locate the toolkit your grandfather gave you three years ago when he told you, “I’m giving you this, so you can fix anything.” / Place it on the desk. Open it. Steady your right hand long enough to grasp the pen knife. / Note how close the blood vessels lie beneath the sheets of your skin. / At this point, your panic attack may begin to ebb. / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes / As your breathing and heart rate steady, find a bottle of water to hydrate yourself / Drop the penknife into the bin / Return the toolkit to the desk drawer / Distract yourself with a walk or TV show / Your body will assume it has survived for another today / Until the next trigger, at which point, you will repeat the process / but do remember, you are not having a heart attack / You are not dying / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes, and in that time, / every piece of you, every basic primal piece of you, is screaming for you to survive. // Find the trigger / A job interview, the claustrophobia of mass transit, deciding what to have for dinner / This is ideal, but may not be possible for everyone / Your body will instinctively revert to its most primal state fearing for your life / Your sympathetic nervous system will activate its fight or flight response in the face of this perceived danger / this decision between Nandos and Chinese / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes / Follow these instructions closely to make the most of this time / Your breathing is the only part of this process you can control. Do not. / This would drastically shorten the attack / Focus on the constricting of your rib cage, on your drum major heart conducting this frantic march / Mistake this for a heart attack or a stroke / If successful, you may lose control of your extremities / The caveman in your limbs will tense every muscle to flee his predator / Your arms and legs will go numb, starting at your hands and feet / Every twitch and tingle and attempt to run for your life / Stay in place. Do not go for a walk. Do not call your friends, your mother, your psychiatrist, an ambulance / By now, you should be in a full panic / Hyperventilation cutting off oxygen to your brain / You will feel faint, become certain of your own death / Do not call your friends. Do not call your mother. Do not call your psychiatrist / A panic attack is a remarkably solitary experience / The presence of another person could have a calming effect and cut the attack short / Resist the temptation to fumble a hand through the desk drawer for the meditation you’ve been prescribed for this / Instead, locate the toolkit your grandfather gave you three years ago when he told you, “I’m giving you this, so you can fix anything.” / Place it on the desk. Open it. Steady your right hand long enough to grasp the pen knife. / Note how close the blood vessels lie beneath the sheets of your skin. / At this point, your panic attack may begin to ebb. / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes / As your breathing and heart rate steady, find a bottle of water to hydrate yourself / Drop the penknife into the bin / Return the toolkit to the desk drawer / Distract yourself with a walk or TV show / Your body will assume it has survived for another today / Until the next trigger, at which point, you will repeat the process / but do remember, you are not having a heart attack / You are not dying / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes, and in that time, / every piece of you, every basic primal piece of you, is screaming for you to survive. // Find the trigger / A job interview, the claustrophobia of mass transit, deciding what to have for dinner / This is ideal, but may not be possible for everyone / Your body will instinctively revert to its most primal state fearing for your life / Your sympathetic nervous system will activate its fight or flight response in the face of this perceived danger / this decision between Nandos and Chinese / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes / Follow these instructions closely to make the most of this time / Your breathing is the only part of this process you can control. Do not. / This would drastically shorten the attack / Focus on the constricting of your rib cage, on your drum major heart conducting this frantic march / Mistake this for a heart attack or a stroke / If successful, you may lose control of your extremities / The caveman in your limbs will tense every muscle to flee his predator / Your arms and legs will go numb, starting at your hands and feet / Every twitch and tingle and attempt to run for your life / Stay in place. Do not go for a walk. Do not call your friends, your mother, your psychiatrist, an ambulance / By now, you should be in a full panic / Hyperventilation cutting off oxygen to your brain / You will feel faint, become certain of your own death / Do not call your friends. Do not call your mother. Do not call your psychiatrist / A panic attack is a remarkably solitary experience / The presence of another person could have a calming effect and cut the attack short / Resist the temptation to fumble a hand through the desk drawer for the meditation you’ve been prescribed for this / Instead, locate the toolkit your grandfather gave you three years ago when he told you, “I’m giving you this, so you can fix anything.” / Place it on the desk. Open it. Steady your right hand long enough to grasp the pen knife. / Note how close the blood vessels lie beneath the sheets of your skin. / At this point, your panic attack may begin to ebb. / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes / As your breathing and heart rate steady, find a bottle of water to hydrate yourself / Drop the penknife into the bin / Return the toolkit to the desk drawer / Distract yourself with a walk or TV show / Your body will assume it has survived for another today / Until the next trigger, at which point, you will repeat the process / but do remember, you are not having a heart attack / You are not dying / The body can only panic for a
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STEP TWO.
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Find the trigger / A job interview, the claustrophobia of mass transit, deciding what to have for dinner / This is ideal, but may not be possible for everyone / Your body will instinctively revert to its most primal state fearing for your life / Your sympathetic nervous system will activate its fight or flight response in the face of this perceived danger / this decision between Nandos and Chinese / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes / Follow these instructions closely to make the most of this time / Your breathing is the only part of this process you can control. Do not. / This would drastically shorten the attack / Focus on the constricting of your rib cage, on your drum major heart conducting this frantic march / Mistake this for a heart attack or a stroke / If successful, you may lose control of your extremities / The caveman in your limbs will tense every muscle to flee his predator / Your arms and legs will go numb, starting at your hands and feet / Every twitch and tingle and attempt to run for your life / Stay in place. Do not go for a walk. Do not call your friends, your mother, your psychiatrist, an ambulance / By now, you should be in a full panic / Hyperventilation cutting off oxygen to your brain / You will feel faint, become certain of your own death / Do not call your friends. Do not call your mother. Do not call your psychiatrist / A panic attack is a remarkably solitary experience / The presence of another person could have a calming effect and cut the attack short / Resist the temptation to fumble a hand through the desk drawer for the meditation you’ve been prescribed for this / Instead, locate the toolkit your grandfather gave you three years ago when he told you, “I’m giving you this, so you can fix anything.” / Place it on the desk. Open it. Steady your right hand long enough to grasp the pen knife. / Note how close the blood vessels lie beneath the sheets of your skin. / At this point, your panic attack may begin to ebb. / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes / As your breathing and heart rate steady, find a bottle of water to hydrate yourself / Drop the penknife into the bin / Return the toolkit to the desk drawer / Distract yourself with a walk or TV show / Your body will assume it has survived for another today / Until the next trigger, at which point, you will repeat the process / but do remember, you are not having a heart attack / You are not dying / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes, and in that time, / every piece of you, every basic primal piece of you, is screaming for you to survive. // Find the trigger / A job interview, the claustrophobia of mass transit, deciding what to have for dinner / This is ideal, but may not be possible for everyone / Your body will instinctively revert to its most primal state fearing for your life / Your sympathetic nervous system will activate its fight or flight response in the face of this perceived danger / this decision between Nandos and Chinese / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes / Follow these instructions closely to make the most of this time / Your breathing is the only part of this process you can control. Do not. / This would drastically shorten the attack / Focus on the constricting of your rib cage, on your drum major heart conducting this frantic march / Mistake this for a heart attack or a stroke / If successful, you may lose control of your extremities / The caveman in your limbs will tense every muscle to flee his predator / Your arms and legs will go numb, starting at your hands and feet / Every twitch and tingle and attempt to run for your life / Stay in place. Do not go for a walk. Do not call your friends, your mother, your psychiatrist, an ambulance / By now, you should be in a full panic / Hyperventilation cutting off oxygen to your brain / You will feel faint, become certain of your own death / Do not call your friends. Do not call your mother. Do not call your psychiatrist / A panic attack is a remarkably solitary experience / The presence of another person could have a calming effect and cut the attack short / Resist the temptation to fumble a hand through the desk drawer for the meditation you’ve been prescribed for this / Instead, locate the toolkit your grandfather gave you three years ago when he told you, “I’m giving you this, so you can fix anything.” / Place it on the desk. Open it. Steady your right hand long enough to grasp the pen knife. / Note how close the blood vessels lie beneath the sheets of your skin. / At this point, your panic attack may begin to ebb. / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes / As your breathing and heart rate steady, find a bottle of water to hydrate yourself / Drop the penknife into the bin / Return the toolkit to the desk drawer / Distract yourself with a walk or TV show / Your body will assume it has survived for another today / Until the next trigger, at which point, you will repeat the process / but do remember, you are not having a heart attack / You are not dying / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes, and in that time, / every piece of you, every basic primal piece of you, is screaming for you to survive. // Find the trigger / A job interview, the claustrophobia of mass transit, deciding what to have for dinner / This is ideal, but may not be possible for everyone / Your body will instinctively revert to its most primal state fearing for your life / Your sympathetic nervous system will activate its fight or flight response in the face of this perceived danger / this decision between Nandos and Chinese / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes / Follow these instructions closely to make the most of this time / Your breathing is the only part of this process you can control. Do not. / This would drastically shorten the attack / Focus on the constricting of your rib cage, on your drum major heart conducting this frantic march / Mistake this for a heart attack or a stroke / If successful, you may lose control of your extremities / The caveman in your limbs will tense every muscle to flee his predator / Your arms and legs will go numb, starting at your hands and feet / Every twitch and tingle and attempt to run for your life / Stay in place. Do not go for a walk. Do not call your friends, your mother, your psychiatrist, an ambulance / By now, you should be in a full panic / Hyperventilation cutting off oxygen to your brain / You will feel faint, become certain of your own death / Do not call your friends. Do not call your mother. Do not call your psychiatrist / A panic attack is a remarkably solitary experience / The presence of another person could have a calming effect and cut the attack short / Resist the temptation to fumble a hand through the desk drawer for the meditation you’ve been prescribed for this / Instead, locate the toolkit your grandfather gave you three years ago when he told you, “I’m giving you this, so you can fix anything.” / Place it on the desk. Open it. Steady your right hand long enough to grasp the pen knife. / Note how close the blood vessels lie beneath the sheets of your skin. / At this point, your panic attack may begin to ebb. / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes / As your breathing and heart rate steady, find a bottle of water to hydrate yourself / Drop the penknife into the bin / Return the toolkit to the desk drawer / Distract yourself with a walk or TV show / Your body will assume it has survived for another today / Until the next trigger, at which point, you will repeat the process / but do remember, you are not having a heart attack / You are not dying / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes, and in that time, / every piece of you, every basic primal piece of you, is screaming for you to survive. // Find the trigger / A job interview, the claustrophobia of mass transit, deciding what to have for dinner / This is ideal, but may not be possible for everyone / Your body will instinctively revert to its most primal state fearing for your life / Your sympathetic nervous system will activate its fight or flight response in the face of this perceived danger / this decision between Nandos and Chinese / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes / Follow these instructions closely to make the most of this time / Your breathing is the only part of this process you can control. Do not. / This would drastically shorten the attack / Focus on the constricting of your rib cage, on your drum major heart conducting this frantic march / Mistake this for a heart attack or a stroke / If successful, you may lose control of your extremities / The caveman in your limbs will tense every muscle to flee his predator / Your arms and legs will go numb, starting at your hands and feet / Every twitch and tingle and attempt to run for your life / Stay in place. Do not go for a walk. Do not call your friends, your mother, your psychiatrist, an ambulance / By now, you should be in a full panic / Hyperventilation cutting off oxygen to your brain / You will feel faint, become certain of your own death / Do not call your friends. Do not call your mother. Do not call your psychiatrist / A panic attack is a remarkably solitary experience / The presence of another person could have a calming effect and cut the attack short / Resist the temptation to fumble a hand through the desk drawer for the meditation you’ve been prescribed for this / Instead, locate the toolkit your grandfather gave you three years ago when he told you, “I’m giving you this, so you can fix anything.” / Place it on the desk. Open it. Steady your right hand long enough to grasp the pen knife. / Note how close the blood vessels lie beneath the sheets of your skin. / At this point, your panic attack may begin to ebb. / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes / As your breathing and heart rate steady, find a bottle of water to hydrate yourself / Drop the penknife into the bin / Return the toolkit to the desk drawer / Distract yourself with a walk or TV show / Your body will assume it has survived for another today / Until the next trigger, at which point, you will repeat the process / but do remember, you are not having a heart attack / You are not dying / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes, and in that time, / every piece of you, every basic primal piece of you, is screaming for you to survive. // Find the trigger / A job interview, the claustrophobia of mass transit, deciding what to have for dinner / This is ideal, but may not be possible for everyone / Your body will instinctively revert to its most primal state fearing for your life / Your sympathetic nervous system will activate its fight or flight response in the face of this perceived danger / this decision between Nandos and Chinese / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes / Follow these instructions closely to make the most of this time / Your breathing is the only part of this process you can control. Do not. / This would drastically shorten the attack / Focus on the constricting of your rib cage, on your drum major heart conducting this frantic march / Mistake this for a heart attack or a stroke / If successful, you may lose control of your extremities / The caveman in your limbs will tense every muscle to flee his predator / Your arms and legs will go numb, starting at your hands and feet / Every twitch and tingle and attempt to run for your life / Stay in place. Do not go for a walk. Do not call your friends, your mother, your psychiatrist, an ambulance / By now, you should be in a full panic / Hyperventilation cutting off oxygen to your brain / You will feel faint, become certain of your own death / Do not call your friends. Do not call your mother. Do not call your psychiatrist / A panic attack is a remarkably solitary experience / The presence of another person could have a calming effect and cut the attack short / Resist the temptation to fumble a hand through the desk drawer for the meditation you’ve been prescribed for this / Instead, locate the toolkit your grandfather gave you three years ago when he told you, “I’m giving you this, so you can fix anything.” / Place it on the desk. Open it. Steady your right hand long enough to grasp the pen knife. / Note how close the blood vessels lie beneath the sheets of your skin. / At this point, your panic attack may begin to ebb. / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes / As your breathing and heart rate steady, find a bottle of water to hydrate yourself / Drop the penknife into the bin / Return the toolkit to the desk drawer / Distract yourself with a walk or TV show / Your body will assume it has survived for another today / Until the next trigger, at which point, you will repeat the process / but do remember, you are not having a heart attack / You are not dying / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes, and in that time, / every piece of you, every basic primal piece of you, is screaming for
you to survive. // Find the trigger / A job interview, the claustrophobia of mass transit, deciding what to have for dinner / This is ideal, but may not be possible for everyone / Your body will instinctively revert to its most primal state fearing for your life / Your sympathetic nervous system will activate its fight or flight response in the face of this perceived danger / this decision between Nandos and Chinese / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes / Follow these instructions closely to make the most of this time / Your breathing is the only part of this process you can control. Do not. / This would drastically shorten the attack / Focus on the constricting of your rib cage, on your drum major heart conducting this frantic march / Mistake this for a heart attack or a stroke / If successful, you may lose control of your extremities / The caveman in your limbs will tense every muscle to flee his predator / Your arms and legs will go numb, starting at your hands and feet / Every twitch and tingle and attempt to run for your life / Stay in place. Do not go for a walk. Do not call your friends, your mother, your psychiatrist, an ambulance / By now, you should be in a full panic / Hyperventilation cutting off oxygen to your brain / You will feel faint, become certain of your own death / Do not call your friends. Do not call your mother. Do not call your psychiatrist / A panic attack is a remarkably solitary experience / The presence of another person could have a calming effect and cut the attack short / Resist the temptation to fumble a hand through the desk drawer for the meditation you’ve been prescribed for this / Instead, locate the toolkit your grandfather gave you three years ago when he told you, “I’m giving you this, so you can fix anything.” / Place it on the desk. Open it. Steady your right hand long enough to grasp the pen knife. / Note how close the blood vessels lie beneath the sheets of your skin. / At this point, your panic attack may begin to ebb. / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes / As your breathing and heart rate steady, find a bottle of water to hydrate yourself / Drop the penknife into the bin / Return the toolkit to the desk drawer / Distract yourself with a walk or TV show / Your body will assume it has survived for another today / Until the next trigger, at which point, you will repeat the process / but do remember, you are not having a heart attack / You are not dying / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes, and in that time, / every piece of you, every basic primal piece of you, is screaming for you to survive. // Find the trigger / A job interview, the claustrophobia of mass transit, deciding what to have for dinner / This is ideal, but may not be possible for everyone / Your body will instinctively revert to its most primal state fearing for your life / Your sympathetic nervous system will activate its fight or flight response in the face of this perceived danger / this decision between Nandos and Chinese / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes / Follow these instructions closely to make the most of this time / Your breathing is the only part of this process you can control. Do not. / This would drastically shorten the attack / Focus on the constricting of your rib cage, on your drum major heart conducting this frantic march / Mistake this for a heart attack or a stroke / If successful, you may lose control of your extremities / The caveman in your limbs will tense every muscle to flee his predator / Your arms and legs will go numb, starting at your hands and feet / Every twitch and tingle and attempt to run for your life / Stay in place. Do not go for a walk. Do not call your friends, your mother, your psychiatrist, an ambulance / By now, you should be in a full panic / Hyperventilation cutting off oxygen to your brain / You will feel faint, become certain of your own death / Do not call your friends. Do not call your mother. Do not call your psychiatrist / A panic attack is a remarkably solitary experience / The presence of another person could have a calming effect and cut the attack short / Resist the temptation to fumble a hand through the desk drawer for the meditation you’ve been prescribed for this / Instead, locate the toolkit your grandfather gave you three years ago when he told you, “I’m giving you this, so you can fix anything.” / Place it on the desk. Open it. Steady your right hand long enough to grasp the pen knife. / Note how close the blood vessels lie beneath the sheets of your skin. / At this point, your panic attack may begin to ebb. / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes / As your breathing and heart rate steady, find a bottle of water to hydrate yourself / Drop the penknife into the bin / Return the toolkit to the desk drawer / Distract yourself with a walk or TV show / Your body will assume it has survived for another today / Until the next trigger, at which point, you will repeat the process / but do remember, you are not having a heart attack / You are not dying / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes, and in that time, / every piece of you, every basic primal piece of you, is screaming for you to survive. // Find the trigger / A job interview, the claustrophobia of mass transit, deciding what to have for dinner / This is ideal, but may not be possible for everyone / Your body will instinctively revert to its most primal state fearing for your life / Your sympathetic nervous system will activate its fight or flight response in the face of this perceived danger / this decision between Nandos and Chinese / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes / Follow these instructions closely to make the most of this time / Your breathing is the only part of this process you can control. Do not. / This would drastically shorten the attack / Focus on the constricting of your rib cage, on your drum major heart conducting this frantic march / Mistake this for a heart attack or a stroke / If successful, you may lose control of your extremities / The caveman in your limbs will tense every muscle to flee his predator / Your arms and legs will go numb, starting at your hands and feet / Every twitch and tingle and attempt to run for your life / Stay in place. Do not go for a walk. Do not call your friends, your mother, your psychiatrist, an ambulance / By now, you should be in a full panic / Hyperventilation cutting off oxygen to your brain / You will feel faint, become certain of your own death / Do not call your friends. Do not call your mother. Do not call your psychiatrist / A panic attack is a remarkably solitary experience / The presence of another person could have a calming effect and cut the attack short / Resist the temptation to fumble a hand through the desk drawer for the meditation you’ve been prescribed for this / Instead, locate the toolkit your grandfather gave you three years ago when he told you, “I’m giving you this, so you can fix anything.” / Place it on the desk. Open it. Steady your right hand long enough to grasp the pen knife. / Note how close the blood vessels lie beneath the sheets of your skin. / At this point, your panic attack may begin to ebb. / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes / As your breathing and heart rate steady, find a bottle of water to hydrate yourself / Drop the penknife into the bin / Return the toolkit to the desk drawer / Distract yourself with a walk or TV show / Your body will assume it has survived for another today / Until the next trigger, at which point, you will repeat the process / but do remember, you are not having a heart attack / You are not dying / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes, and in that time, / every piece of you, every basic primal piece of you, is screaming for you to survive. // Find the trigger / A job interview, the claustrophobia of mass transit, deciding what to have for dinner / This is ideal, but may not be possible for everyone / Your body will instinctively revert to its most primal state fearing for your life / Your sympathetic nervous system will activate its fight or flight response in the face of this perceived danger / this decision between Nandos and Chinese / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes / Follow these instructions closely to make the most of this time / Your breathing is the only part of this process you can control. Do not. / This would drastically shorten the attack / Focus on the constricting of your rib cage, on your drum major heart conducting this frantic march / Mistake this for a heart attack or a stroke / If successful, you may lose control of your extremities / The caveman in your limbs will tense every muscle to flee his predator / Your arms and legs will go numb, starting at your hands and feet / Every twitch and tingle and attempt to run for your life / Stay in place. Do not go for a walk. Do not call your friends, your mother, your psychiatrist, an ambulance / By now, you should be in a full panic / Hyperventilation cutting off oxygen to your brain / You will feel faint, become certain of your own death / Do not call your friends. Do not call your mother. Do not call your psychiatrist / A panic attack is a remarkably solitary experience / The presence of another person could have a calming effect and cut the attack short / Resist the temptation to fumble a hand through the desk drawer for the meditation you’ve been prescribed for this / Instead, locate the toolkit your grandfather gave you three years ago when he told you, “I’m giving you this, so you can fix anything.” / Place it on the desk. Open it. Steady your right hand long enough to grasp the pen knife. / Note how close the blood vessels lie beneath the sheets of your skin. / At this point, your panic attack may begin to ebb. / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes / As your breathing and heart rate steady, find a bottle of water to hydrate yourself / Drop the penknife into the bin / Return the toolkit to the desk drawer / Distract yourself with a walk or TV show / Your body will assume it has survived for another today / Until the next trigger, at which point, you will repeat the process / but do remember, you are not having a heart attack / You are not dying / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes, and in that time, / every piece of you, every basic primal piece of you, is screaming for you to survive. // Find the trigger / A job interview, the claustrophobia of mass transit, deciding what to have for dinner / This is ideal, but may not be possible for everyone / Your body will instinctively revert to its most primal state fearing for your life / Your sympathetic nervous system will activate its fight or flight response in the face of this perceived danger / this decision between Nandos and Chinese / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes / Follow these instructions closely to make the most of this time / Your breathing is the only part of this process you can control. Do not. / This would drastically shorten the attack / Focus on the constricting of your rib cage, on your drum major heart conducting this frantic march / Mistake this for a heart attack or a stroke / If successful, you may lose control of your extremities / The caveman in your limbs will tense every muscle to flee his predator / Your arms and legs will go numb, starting at your hands and feet / Every twitch and tingle and attempt to run for your life / Stay in place. Do not go for a walk. Do not call your friends, your mother, your psychiatrist, an ambulance / By now, you should be in a full panic / Hyperventilation cutting off oxygen to your brain / You will feel faint, become certain of your own death / Do not call your friends. Do not call your mother. Do not call your psychiatrist / A panic attack is a remarkably solitary experience / The presence of another person could have a calming effect and cut the attack short / Resist the temptation to fumble a hand through the desk drawer for the meditation you’ve been prescribed for this / Instead, locate the toolkit your grandfather gave you three years ago when he told you, “I’m giving you this, so you can fix anything.” / Place it on the desk. Open it. Steady your right hand long enough to grasp the pen knife. / Note how close the blood vessels lie beneath the sheets of your skin. / At this point, your panic attack may begin to ebb. / The body can only panic for a maximum of about twenty minutes / As your breathing and heart rate steady, find a bottle of water to hydrate yourself / Drop the penknife into the bin / Return the toolkit to the desk drawer / Distract yourself with a walk or TV show / Your body will assume it has survived for another today / Until the next trigger, at which point, you will repeat the process / but do remember, you are not having a heart attack / You are not dying / The body can only panic for a