Did you ever get light-headed, with sweaty palms, dizzy and with your heart pumping adrenaline like an overdosed drug addict, all of a sudden while you are in your car driving?
Panic Attack While Driving is a relatively widespread kind of anxiety panic attack. It's spreading more in the recent years, and sadly it touches younger and younger folks as well .
There are 2 sorts of things you can do regarding panic attacks while driving
Avoid Panic Attacks while driving Deal with Panic Attacks while driving
As you could guess, the 1st type is the one you should be targeting for.
Here are a couple of things you may want to do, to avoid anxiety attacks while driving. Not having it in the first place is thousand times better than having to deal with it once it's there, don't you agree?
If you have got a CD you enjoy listening to, put it on while you are driving, and simply relax and enjoy it
Have some fruit or light break with you whenever you are driving, so you can give your body something else to do besides pumping you full with adrenaline.
Avoid considering driving. Take your intellect off it. Consider the scenery ahead and around you. Think of pleasant thoughts, things to anticipate later on in the day.
Now let's imagine the panic attack is about to grip you, based on the symptoms that you already know that come with the attack. So what can you do NOW?
If you can, pull your automobile over. And if you can, get out of your car and take some deep and slow breath to clear your lungs and fill them with fresh air. If you cannot get out of the auto thanks to the road specifics, just open the window, lean out a bit and take that full breath of clean air.
Ensure you have a bottle of water with you. You can always sip a bit, or if you have some anxiety tablets, though I actually rarely endorse them, well, now it could be an excellent time to pop one in your mouth. These tablets are often a fast, easy solution. Just make sure they will not interfere with your driving afterwards!
Use positive affirmations time after time again. Something like : - "I am calm, alert and in full control while driving." should work fine.
controlling panic attacks is possible, and you can even do it by yourself. Check out causes of anxiety attacks to learn how to do it.
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