I agree, kind of. I have also suffered from panic attacks and the problem with this is that I'm thinking that I'm about to have a heart attack. The mere thought of running makes it worse. Breathing exercises (this has to be practised in advance) helps for me.
That's a real panic attack. Drinking cold water can help reset the loop causing it (worked for me maybe once). The only thing that really works for me is GABA (700mg daily for a year, then 250mg daily for life) - but it did come up short in my blood work.
Yes! Recognicing that it is a feedback loop is probably what has helped me the most. This is weird, I love controll systems and I see feedback loops everywhere in all kinds of contexts. Yet spotting this one was very hard.
They're great for acute panic, but are not a solution to a chronic problem. Research shows that some antidepressants and 5-HT1A agonists work in the long term for anxiety, though.
IMO, there's nothing better for a panic attack than benzos. It's nice to have them around for an emergency. However, they will be the death of your mind if you take them on a schedule.
Yeah that makes it hard to motivate yourself to do it.
For me it's the stubbornness/trying to diagnose my hardware approach of:
well I'm either having a heart attack or this is just anxiety - so I can force the condition by doing this bike sprint and that will give me valuable information.
