What they teach you when you are treated for a panic disorder is something that I find particularly important. And I would like everyone to read this because this is something that I really think everybody can use.
   The whole basis of the treatment is merely a true understanding that although this is terrible and you feel as if this is the end – ITS NOT. The most effective treatment from any really caring, trained doctor isn’t drugs or any other means of escape from it (which is the easy way for both of you and probably more profitable for them) Instead, its EXPOSURE. What that means is that when you’re knees are giving out and it feels like you cant breathe and you feel like this is truly the end. STAY. Dance with it. Let it run through you. It will be ok.

  So, It’s like being shot with an arrow. This hurts right now, but you’re ok. You shouldn’t struggle to try to pull it back out, you have to push it through yourself. Let it run its course. Or else you can just keep taking perscription pills for the pain and just walk around with an arrow stuck in you forever.

THE SIMPLE TREATMENT IS JUST WHOLEHEARTEDLY KNOWING THAT ALTHOUGH THIS FEELS TERRIBLE RIGHT NOW, ITS NOT THE END. YOU’RE OK. TIME WILL HEAL IT. BE PATIENT.

And that right there, is one of the most important pieces of information I’ve ever learned in my life. Whether you suffer from panic disorder or not.