STEP 1: DOWNLOAD
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“The Panic Mistake” PDF goes into even more detail about “The Panic Mistake” and everything we've covered in this first episode.
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STEP 2: HELP FRIENDS & FAMILY
As you’ve discovered in this episode, panic attacks (and what's typically labeled as ‘panic disorder’) are very common.
Unfortunately, good help for panic is very hard to find.
Since I can't reach everyone on my own, and since we both share the same belief that we don’t want anyone to suffer in silence… if you benefit from what I’m doing here in this series, please tell others about it.
Thank you so much for helping me make a difference!
STEP 3: REINFORCE YOUR INSIGHTS
If you met someone else who experienced panic attacks and you only had 30 seconds to share ONE ESSENTIAL insight from this episode with them... what would you tell them?
Share your answer below to reinforce your long-term memory for this key insight AND to share your perspective with others (who will also share their perspectives with you).
Also, if you have any other comments for me, I'd love to hear them too.
Love,
Michael
P.S. Your email address will NOT be visible to others when you share your insight in the comments section below. Also, if you're more comfortable using just your first name, that's totally fine as well.
IMPORTANT: ABOUT UPCOMING EPISODES...
Please keep an eye out for emails from me. I space each episode out to once every 2-3 days to give people time to watch. Links to episode 2 and future episodes will be emailed to you, when ready.
panic attack is just a mistake, a faulty smoke alarm
I am grateful for what you are sharing. Thank you very much.
Anxiety is ruining my life, it started with med school huge responsibility and major priority as you’ve already mentioned. A friend of mine shared your YouTube video with me. I watched the first episode. My hope is fine but not high. The irony is I’m keeping my expectations below what you’d want me to have, just because I am afraid of getting no benefit!! I truly deeply need to get myself up and seek my dream of becoming a very good doctor. I chose this field passionately and I have always thought it’s the only way I could have a better life. I don’t know why I’m getting into details. But I hope your series will help me. Thank you.
I have suffered from panic and anxiety for years it all started back in highschool and its re-assuring to know I’m not alone. I really can’t thank you enough for all your doing.
I had always been the go-to fixer in our highly traumatized family, and had quick reflexes for the sort of problem solving that could adjust the sails, tack to still have forward progress, and never run from the difficulties. So my first panic attack and “flight” was dibiltating and shaming…something I needed to hide from everyone. It was hard to begin to get help because of the isolating effect of such stark surprise and the dread that it could happen anywhere and any time! So glad that you are hammering home the not alone and not weak or crazy. Because, as you know, it feels very much that way in the moment. I have had some success with a safe phrase and breathing awareness to stop the full blown anxiety and panic, but am still dealing with the inability to engage in risk-taking in intimate decisions. It is like I can’t put the car in gear. So thank you for the passion and dedication that is clear in your work…I am hoping to have a breakthrough here!
The most significant part of episode 1 is it is just a mistake, a false alarm.
I also want to say thank you so much, it is clear to see you are passionate about helping others and it fills me with hope. When you were talking about people being brave it actually made me cry (with pride) I have never felt pride from having panic in my life before!!! I have had “anxiety episodes” that last around 6 to eight weeks and have done over the last 19 years, although I hadn’t had one for 7 years and thought I was free from them. Then over Christmas due to various factors I ended up crashing in the new year. This time though it has been nearly 12weeks which has made it worse as it feels like it will never finish. I have read so many articles, have counselling and do meditation and hypnosis and just get through day by day waking with that overwhelming fear and dread knowing I have to go through all this again until I go to sleep at night. You have really made me feel better at the moment and am looking forward to the next episode. Thank you
First of all I’d like to say thank you I found this going through YouTube and what a blessing to know that it’s not a chemical imbalance cuz that’s what I was told and it does make a difference knowing that it’s my body making its own alarm system and that I’m not crazy in the head cuz I always felt crazy and alone because no one could understand how it’s feeling I suffer from driving anxiety and the unknown and I don’t like to be somewhere I can’t leave fast that’s one of the things I go through I like to be in control of every situation for some reason it makes me feel better but that also takes me out of a lot of things you do in life even my Dr knows that I don’t like to wait long in the office I will leave so I’m hoping this will give me some patients to to know that it’s not I’m not crazy and that one day I can overcome this and be able to be as they say normal but it’s good to know that I’m not alone because my husband doesn’t understand my family tries to but it’s hard on everyone when they want to go somewhere and I have to think about it and see how I feel and if I feel good I’ll go if I don’t I won’t anyway thank you so much
I only have panick attacks when my back pain gets high or I have gone a couple nights with very little sleep then I panic. Then I have the fear of the next one.
Thank you for the information and the testimony. I am looking forward to see the other videos and learn how I can help my patients more.
Thinking of it through the model of a false alarm, a smoke detector, made so much more sense to me than anything anyone else had been able to say to me. I have hope again that it can get better. Thank you.
Hi, my name is Max and I went to sociology Psychiatrist and many Doctors. They all told me they cant help me that my anxiety its really bad. So instead of giving me a positive solution, They were all Negatively.So you can see i had no help and they all wanted me to take drugs. I don’t Believe in Drugs i think its worse.
When i have a panic attack i feel like im going to die and a feel like physically running away to stop it.
I really, REALLY want to thank you for this videos, and to think that it is actually free is unbelieveable, I`ve suffered from anxiety and fear for years, and I never asked for help from people who would understand what`s it like, because even people that tryed to help didn`t really know what it was like, I cried a lot watching these videos, and I now realize that I am one of the bravest pearsons I know for not giving up, I want to spread this information for more people that can be going through the same thing we all went here, and I searched for years for something wrong with my body, like you said a chemical imbalance, I went to so many doctors, but I could never enjoy the optimal health I have always had because of fear, I really hope more people can get to know this information that trully changed my life, Thank you so much Michael
Just found you. I watched your first video and feeling safe and relieved. I can’t wait to watch your next video. Please keep helping people. Thank you.
After watching episode #1, I’m already feeling some relief just hearing someone else speaking out loud all the feelings that I encounter when an anxiety attack arises. It is very helpful just realizing that I’m not alone and this problem might actually have a real solution, not just having to live with it for the rest of my life!
Thank you Michael, looking forward to the upcoming episodes!
Thank you,Michael. I loved the talk. I feel no longer alone and ashamed by my weakness. I feel brave and confident that I can have a panic free future. It is as if I was carrying a huge weight on my shoulders for so long,but now it is gone and I feel unburdened and free.
Hi Michael,
I have been struggling with, Panic attacks, panic disorder and depression more than 20 years. I got interested in pyschology after I had my first “Attack” (Mistake) 😄, which is accompanied by a major depression. I got a medical treatment which helped no more than %20. Got CBT which helped no more than %40. Today met with you and got highly impressed of your approach to what all we live. Although you are a specialist on this subject, it is very valuable and convincing for me is, you are the one who lived the same experiences as we already have. So I am grateful to you for sharing your experiences and teaching us how to approach what we live. Be sure that your quidance is and will be very helpfull to all of us which are in the same situation. Starting as of today, accept my great wish of being a follower of you and panicfree.tv Best regards, Haluk.
Just to know someone cares relaxes me a little. I have panic attacks daily and I finally felt I was going crazy and can’t live like this. I am looking forward to episode 2
Is there something like this about depression as well? Since most of the anxiety sometimes brings up some depression as well or sometimes all the way around…?
Very helpful and explained conversation.