A unqiue look at how NOT to help someone who is having a panic attack.

By JOHN PATTERSON

Firstly, I am a sufferer of 13 years, albeit on the mend now. I have endured everything from panic attacks to real head on the floor depression, all of which can be frightening, really frightening.

This story I hope will make a very good, and important, point. It takes a slightly humourous approach to something which is far from humourous, but I am sure the reader will forgive the latitude I take here. It is an honest attempt to get over something very important.

A panic disorder sufferer falls into a hole and cries for help. The hole is very big, and he apparently cannot get out the hole on his own, hence the increasingly desperate cries for help.

A rich man walking past hears him and drops in some money, saying “there you go, I am sure that will help”, to which the sufferer replies that is no good to him, and asks how can that money get him out of the hole. But the rich man takes no heed, or maybe did not hear him, and walks away.

The second person to walk past is a man of the cloth, a priest from the local parish church. He hears the cries for help coming from the hole and drops in his bible, telling the man that will help him. But the person in the hole replies that there is no way that will get him out of the huge hole either. Again, the priest walks off, just as the rich man had done.

A passer-by, hearing the shouting from the hole and realsing the man’s predicament, calls for a therapist. The therapist drops in one of his leaflets and tells the man to make an appointment to come and visit him when he manages to extricate himself, explaining that his fees are on the leaflet, along with his phone number and address.

The man replies, with most of his response not able to be printed here, that this will not get him out of the hole, so the counsellor sends for a doctor.

The good doctor drops in some medication to which the man shouts that there is no way this is going to get him out of the huge hole.

The doctor’s departure is immediately followed by someone who actually jumps into the hole alongside the panic attack sufferer who, not surprisingly, asks why did they do that as they are now both trapped.

However, the person who jumped into the hole tells him not to worry, help is at hand as he has been a fellow sufferer himself and knows how to get out of the hole.

The moral of the story is of course painfully obvious.

However well intentioned people may be, they do not most times understand the predicament that anxiety sufferers are in. But fellow sufferers, or more to the point, ex-sufferers, most definitely do. And they can hold the key to the one thing the sufferer is seeking i.e. the way out of his own particular hole.

It took me a long time to realise the moral of this story for myself, but eventually it was through such a source that I found my way out. But for too long I had been seeking a solution in the wrong place.

I listened to the people who had gone to the same source, read their own heartfelt testimonials and decided this was for me.

There is always a solution, always a way out. You will find yours much quicker if you seek it from the right source. That source will not only have a complete understanding of the challenges you face, but will have the answer to meet and permanently beat those challenges.

The author has had over 13 years experience of his own very personal battle with anxiety disorders and has read and studied extensively on the subject. He gives a lot of free advice and provides information on what form of non-medication Anxiety Therapy helped him. You can discover for yourself exactly how ANYONE can stop scary panic attacks

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