panic attack

The only thing that has helped me is personal cognitive behavioral therapy. When a panic attack begins to occur, there's nothing that will suppress it. That being the case, you have to ride it out without fighting it. The more you fight, the more you panic. If you allow the physical symptoms to go ahead and manifest, and bear in mind that they can't actually hurt you, it climaxes and ends much more abruptly.

Putting that into practice is difficult at first, but you can gradually learn how to ride things out. The most important thing to to understand what a panic attack physically is. You have to accept that the physical symptoms you feel can't actually harm you. It's an elevated state of anxiety that your body isn't normally used to feeling. Although sitting through the experience is tedious, it is a lot easier to go through when you don't allow the symptoms to scare you into thinking you're dying, having a heart-attack, having a stroke, etc.

When I feel an attack creeping up on me, I first clear my mind and think, "There's no need to be nervous. This is just a false-alarm." If it still insists on happening, then I close my eyes so that I can't feel any occurrence of dizziness or "weirdness" that I normally get if I'm looking at something or my surroundings. I clear my head, breathe in through my nose and out through my mouth, and just mentally "clench down" until it's over. My heart stops racing within just a few seconds.

If there's any anticipation about having future attacks, maybe it's best to outright confront them. Think about the symptoms that frighten you most, and intentionally evoke them and ride them out. After doing this so many times, you have to realize that these symptoms are just smoke and mirrors that can't hurt you; but if you don't control them, then they'll only control you. Fear is a powerful thing.