Just type “anxiety cure” into Google – you will come up with 343,000 hits. Typing in “panic attack cure” gets you 782,000 hits. The top of Google’s search results and the sidebar will be filled with advertisements for “cures” for Anxiety Disorder and panic attacks.
These “cures” claim to make Anxiety Disorder and panic attacks go away for good in much in the same way they might offer to cure hookworm. A cure by definition is an elimination of a disease and its symptoms. These companys’ advertisements imply that the sufferer is never going to have symptoms again, that once they have gone through their regimen, Anxiety Disorder and panic attacks will be gone permanently.
Anxiety and panic attack sufferers are desperate people, and I fear that too many of them are taken in by such dangerous claims.
These highly-advertised “cures” reek of snake oil to me.
Please do not think I’m being negative, or trying to dash your hopes for some sort of relief from Anxiety Disorder and panic attacks.
I am just being realistic. I firmly believe that a permanent “cure” for Anxiety Disorder and panic attacks is impossible. I am not saying that their symptoms cannot be controlled and managed successfully. I am not saying that you cannot reclaim your life and function normally. I am saying that the physical conditions that cause Anxiety Disorder and panic attacks will always be with you.
And I am saying that a constant awareness of this fact will help you lead a happier, more successful life.
I read more and more each day of scientific research showing that, like depression or diabetes, there are definite physical anomalies in the body and brain associated with Anxiety Disorder and panic attacks. And physical anomalies do not go away. They cannot be “cured.”
For example, just a few days ago I posted a report of a study that found evidence showing that sufferers of Social Anxiety Disorder have an abnormality in the brain’s dopaminergic system that can cause the condition. And every one of the informational references for Anxiety Disorders listed in the left column of this this blog cites numerous physical causes of each Anxiety Disorder and for panic attacks.
If the brain of an Anxiety Disorder or panic sufferer has physical abnormalities that contribute to her mental illness, then her Anxiety or panic attacks can never be “cured,” plain and simple. She can learn coping strategies to manage the symptoms. She can control the symptoms to the extent that they have minimal impact on her life. But that physical abnormality will never simply go away.
I object strenuously to, and regard as cynical hype, claims that Anxiety Disorder and panic attacks can be cured. It not only is wrong, wrong, wrong, but it raises false hopes in the Anxiety or panic attack sufferer. It implies an inoculation, something like a smallpox vaccination.
It replaces the very real hope of Anxiety Disorder and panic attack control and management with an unrealistic expectation that it can be banished permanently.
Even if the “cure” works for a while, what happens when, later on, one suffers a serious setback? Does that mean that one is “un-cured?” Unfortunately, most would see such an un-curing as a personal failure, just another instance of weakness of character. In my opinion, this would make the situation worse than it was in the first place!
And are these “permanent cures” permanent enough to give the sufferer the tools to build their lives again? I rather doubt it.
How many of us have had our hopes crushed by a relapse after what we hoped and prayed was a just such a permanent cure? Did the help you received give you the emotional and practical tools to rebuild your life again? I’m afraid most of these loudly trumpeted quick fix-it’s being advertised will do nothing of the sort.
It may be true that these “cures” may seem to give you relief for a while, as likely from a placebo effect as any real, lasting help.
However, any reputable practitioner, whether a layperson or a licensed mental health care professional, will never say that they are “curing” you of Anxiety Disorder or panic attacks. They will tell you they are giving you the coping tools to manage and control your symptoms on a long-term basis.
I believe a far, far better and more realistic attitude is to regard Anxiety Disorder and panic attacks as a permanent, physical state that can be managed effectively with a combination of a healthy lifestyle, professional counselling and medication.
It can be controlled, and controlled to the point that the former sufferer has few if any of their formerly disabling symptoms. You can regain your functionality and live a successful, normal life.
Do not be duped by these snake-oil salesmen! You know that reputable mental health care professionals can give you reliable, long term relief from your symptoms. Do not waste your money, your hopes, your emotional well-being, or your mental health on anything less!
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Hi Mike,
With 40+ years of anxiety/panic disorder, and interaction with many different people who have it over the years, I’m inclined to include that there are two forms of the disorder. One is induced by nothing but a physical disorder; the other is induced by a physical disorder that is itself induced by some kind of event.
My observation is that the former is usually chronic, while the latter form can,indeed, be recovered from. People I’ve met who, IMHO, have the latter are most likely to experience it after a traumatic event: a husband leaving and a diagnosis of cancer are two examples that come to mind.
The latter are the people who insist that we can all be cured, because they were. God bless ‘em…but we’re not suffering from the same problem!
This is a great blog.
- Mary
PS – If you had a chance to check out Recovery, what did you think?
Hi, Mary!
I like to think of anxiety as a continuum, from the garden-variety anxiety (little a) through the diagnosable Anxiety (big A). People who are “cured” are those whose anxiety is the “little a” type. There is a tipping point where “little a” becomes “big A” and at that point, Anxiety can be managed, but it cannot be cured. I’m going to expand on this concept in a future post.
I think we’re saying the same things, just with different terms. There are definite physical brain factors that make a person prone to Anxiety, and life events are the things that trigger that predisposition.
Yes, I did check out Recovery. I was impressed. I have a commentary on it on my list of post topics for the future. Thank you for the tip!
Hi, I like to believe that there are many people out there who can be cured, assuming they are not exhibiting deal emotional problems. I for one was a sufferer of mild anxiety and panic and hated the thought of being placed on medication for the rest of my life. Using a combination of meditation and “binaural beats” I have been able to hang on to that “quiet place” in stressful situations and this has definately improved the quality of my life.
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I would like to share my view, which is quite different from what has been implied. I will follow simple logic to develop my point. Nobody here can claim for sure that all panic attacks are caused by the same cause. Everyone is different. Some get out-of-blue attacks and some get attacks as a result of their catastrophic thinking. So I realy believe, that in some people panic attacks are just fear of fear, wich started as a fearful reaction to one of the symptoms of stress. Everyone has experienced stress and the symptoms related to it. But for some people this symptoms were percieved as great threat to their health, so the result was a panic attack. After this initial attack some get into a cycle of panic, or in other words, they develop a fear of fear. I don’t think that if in such a case one gets panic disorder, that it is because of some abnormality in the brain – no! In fact, everyone has a fear of something, like phobias and when they are exposed to the fearful stimuli, they get a panic attack. But you might ask, why do some people get into the cycle of panic and others -don’t? In my opinion, of course it is not due to any kind of imbalance in your brain, but rather it is caused by your hypochondrial reaction. You see, some people fear spiders, some fear elevators and others fear that they might die. Fear of death is another phobia, known as thanatophobia. So, when hypochondriasis is a phobia, it is a fear of getting ill (getting a terrible disease) and die. So when a person with a phobia of spiders sees a spider, he gets a panic attack, but because he is not hypochondriac, he doesn’t fear his symptoms and thus doesn’t get into a cycle of panic. But when a hypochondriac gets these symptoms, he immediately percieves it as a threat to his health, thus he gets a panic attack, which adds more fear to his fears and the sufferer is dragged into a cycle of fear what we call panic disorder.
I don’t know why people get out-of-blue panic attacks. I’ve never had such an attack and mine has always been a result of my catastrophic thinking, obsessing about my health. There are sources where they distinguish a panic attack and an anxiety attack. According to these sources panic attacks strike out-of-blue, when there is no apparent trigger and anxiety attacks strike as a result of a trigger – our catastrophic thinking. So you may say that a panic attack, that comes without any trigger, could be caused by imbalance or a physical abnormality in the brain, while an anxiety attack, which strikes as a result of thinking and obsessing, is just 100% psychological. But I would say, that there is no way to measure any chemicals in the brain, there is no test yet known. I think when a person gets out-of-blue panic attacks, then there should be some kind of unresolved issues from the past, which needs addressing. So I don’t consider panic disorder as a disorder, but rather it is just our way of distorted thinking. We are dragged into a cycle of fear, which can be broken.
You are asking about cure. What is a “cure”? Nobody can be cured of anxiety and panic, because they evolved naturally and every humen has it built in. We don’t need to cure anxiety and panic, because if we did, one day we could die without them. Why? Because if you cure anxiety, then you don’t have any fear and if you don’t have any fear, than one day you could walk you dog throug a battlefield and die of an explosion. This is why we have built in anxiety to protect us from real dangers. Nobody wants to cure appropriate anxiety. If your plane fell into a jungle and with some great luck you survived, next moment you could get unlucky facing a lion and that is when you would regret that you had cured your panic before, because at this very moment only panic attack would help you to flee. So that is why I nobody would want to take out their adrenal glands forever to stop panic attacks. It is your natural defence mechanism.
Now, what is panic disorder? It is a fear of fear. Do you know what is the secret of our brains? That is that our subconscious cannot distinguish between real and percieved dangers. That is why it reacts equaly to the incident in the jungle and to your percieved danger that you are dying from stress symptoms. So when you fear the fear itself, it is called inapropriate anxiety. And that one, believe me, can be cured for sure.
See there is a way of looking at it. Inapropriate anxiety is not a disorder, but rather it is a habit. And it can be unlearned by changing your panic-like reactions by more acceptable ones. When you panic over anxiety symtoms several times, these symptoms become your conditioned stimuli. But it doesn’t have to be like this forever. You can change it by breaking this cycle of panic and by challenging your thoughts.
Panic disorder is your fantasy – nothing more. Cure? You don’t need to cure something that is not really a disorder. You just need to unlearn your habit of fear and relevant fearfull reaction.
Of course what I said is not always the case, because not all panic attacks are caused by apprehension. But you cannot say that no panic disorder can be cured, because such statement is wrong. I know people who had panic attacks and had been in a cycle of panic, but they recovered and never had an attack since. I myself have not had an attack in a long time now. Of course I get anxious sometimes, but I never get an attack. How did I managed this? I changed my thout patterns, I changed my habits. I realized that inapropriate anxiety is just worring about things that might happen in the future, but 99% of these never happen. So you should ask yourself, why should you worry about something that has not happened yet? You have to challenge all your “what if” type thoughts. They will never come true.
And to those, you get out-of-blue attacks and there is no obvious trigger, then you should seek in the past. There have to be some unresolved issues in the past, which you need to let go of.
Good luck to all.
As a panic attack sufferer for 20 years myself, I find your topic very interesting. In my experience you need to realize that you have this problem, and be open about it. It helped me.
Alan, you described me to a T. I really appreciate what you had to say about panic and anxiety. I would just like to know WHAT you think about to change your thinking habits. MY mind always drifts right back into the same fearful thinking. I am not on any medication for it because everything that I have tried made the symtoms alot worse. Sometimes the feelings just come on for no reason and that in itself scares me and starts the process all over again. Its getting closer to the holidays now and I’ve already started being anxious over christmas shopping and having a couple of family dinners. I know this sounds like something I should be looking forward too, but I just get really anxious and panicy just thinking about it. So—-what can I replace the negative thinking with so as not to really get out of sorts about something that should be a really happy family time!!! Thanks again for your input.
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Dear Pauline,
The only problem with a person with anxiety is that he questions each thought and reacts to any fearful one. That’s how anxiety tricks us. You start to obsess with these thoughts and you start to fight them, but the more you fight them the more they get to you. If I told you now not to think about bananas then of course you would. So the problem is that when you try hard not to think about something, that something persists more and more and you remember it more and more. So the best reaction to your thoughts (basically they are “what if” kinda thoughts) is no reaction at all. You should accept your thoughts as your normal thought process and let them come. They are just thoughts, they mean no harm. Just accept them and do not fight them.
I want to explain how our brain works. When you do something over and over again it becomes your habit. Subconscious takes over these frequent actions and you start to react automatically on the same stimuli. I am sure you have at least one thing at home that has a permanent location and you use it every day. So if you put that thing somewhere else, maybe in the other room, then I guarantee you that later on when you need to use this thing again you will approach its original place. Why? Because your subconscious manages your actions, which have developed as habits as a result of performing them over and over for a long time.
So it’s the same with your thoughts and panic. Within your whole life you’ve been reacting to things with anxiety, so anxiety became your habit, your automatic reaction to the same stimuli. This is conditioned stimuli just like with Pavlov’s dogs. So you are asking if this could be unlearned. YES! And the key is within you. It is how you will react on these things in the future that will change it all. You have to overwrite a new habit to the old one. Your new behavior should be non-anxious, that is to say, you have to give up, you have to surrender to your thoughts and sensations. FACE them, ACCEPT them, FLOAT though them AND LET MORE TIME TO PASS. And don’t be bewildered by your sensations, they are just sensations of anxiety and they mean no harm.
Analyzing a “what if” type of thought = anxiety. So stop it and just accept any thought and move on.
I also suffered panic attacks a while ago .. but all you need is the support of your friends and family. Good info here. Thanks!
I believe that the helplessness and quite often the element of fear that accompanies many of the types of anxieties motivates the sufferer to try anything that may help with getting rid of the debilitating condition.
Hi Alan,wat u written here is absolutely true,i suffered my panic attack too,i believe theres no such thing as out of blue attack,its just all caused by earlier worrying before the attack starts,i also believe anxiety disorder can be cured with out any sort of medications,because anxiety attack is not an illness,its a learned behaviour and full of fears of fears,negative thinking which make a person stuck on its own mind,the thing why its so hard to recovered from panic attack i do believe is the symptoms,i experienced rapidhearbeat and breathless is the worst symptoms u cant get,even u challenge ur mind to tell urself that breahtless during an anxiety attack is just due to fear,our brain resists it because everytime we feel ourself short of air,the brain automatically trigger the fight and flight mode..our survival mode.
And by the way Alan do u have any email contact ? cause i would like to discuss with u about this anxiety things,hope u dun mind.thanks
I have had problems with panic attacks and anxiety for most of my twenties. I haven’t been hit hard by it.. but it has effected me. Thankfully there is help there.. you just need to find it. But there is plenty of help..
Thank you for your informative post. I agree totally that though you can get to a point of control with panic/anxiety issues, they are always with you and you have to be aware of that. I help control mine with special techniques, diet, exercise, tai chi, and qi gong to maintain daily balance, but I know that what caused them is still lurking in the background. Kind of like an alcoholic that recovers, he is not truly recovered because he/she could fall right back into the disease if something makes them drink again.
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I would like to add some more info…
The biggest trick of anxiety disorder is that it makes you believe that something is wrong with you. Yes, there are “chemical imbalances” theories out there, but they are just theories: a) there is no test to measure a chemical in the brain; and b) even if we measured and discovered that there really IS some kind of an imbalance in the brain, still we would not know if such an imbalance is the CAUSE or the RESULT of an anxiety disorder.
The most powerful tools are logic and rational thinking. You should follow simple logic and explain things, such as why do we get panic attacks? FACT: every single human being, even some animals are capable of having a panic attack. What is a panic attack? A panic attack is the highest degree of expression of fear, it is the last resort of your in-built security mechanism called “flight or fight response”. Everyone has this mechanism and under certain circumstances everyone can experience a panic attack. For example, most people run when a pissed-off dog chases them, but their running speed and flexibility are not usual, but rather supernatural. Why? Because their fight or flight response kicks in and prepares their bodies for better running or fighting performance, thus giving a better chance for survival. EXACTLY! I know this may sound wild to some of you, but this IS the purpose of a panic attack – yep, it is survival. So why are we talking about brain abnormalities here when anyone has this security mechanism? And that’s the trick of anxiety. It makes you wonder, it makes you believe that something is wrong with you, that something is causing this. You start to search for answers, you Google each symptom you have and you worry about each sensation. I have good news for you. NOTHING IS CAUSING THIS TO YOU, THIS IS JUST ANXIETY! There is nothing physically wrong with you (provided that you had a medical check-up and ruled out hormonal imbalance or other physical disease).
Everyone experiences anxiety every day. Probably the lowest level of anxiety is shyness, while the highest is a panic attack. When there is a real danger and you get a panic attack, you start to fight or run rather than focus on your sensations, which is why after you’ve escaped the danger you never analyze the sensations that you experienced during the running, you didn’t even perceive it as a panic attack, because you focused on escaping from the danger, but there is no difference between this panic attack and the one that bothers you every day “out-of-blue”.
Well, now you ask, why is it that I was ok when I had a panic attack while facing a real danger and on the other hand I can’t get over the ones that come seemingly out of blue? Well, that’s a good question, though the reason you are asking it is because your anxiety makes you search for answers. If you just accepted the panic attack and would not fear it, you would cure your panic disorder. Well since you are asking, the answer is this: as I posted earlier, the secret of our brains is that it cannot distinguish the real danger from a perceived danger and responds to both by the same response – fight or flight. If this were not true then you would ask who the hell Alfred Hitchkok or Steven Spielberg were. Movie industry is successful only because our brains cannot distinguish real threat from a perceived threat, which is why when you are watching a movie you know that it’s just a movie, but you still get emotions, be it a fear or love.
Now, why do we get panic attacks without any apparent reason, without any real danger? Well, lets rewind to the first panic attack that occurred “out of blue”. You started questioning, because you think there was no danger and therefore something is wrong with you, something other is causing this. In fact – NO. Still, when you think that your panic attack occurred without any real danger (or “out of blue”), you are partially right – there was not a real danger, but there was a perceived danger, which is the same for your brain to activate fight or flight response. Now you ask, what was the perceived danger? I believe that stress symptoms or other uncomfortable bodily sensations where perceived as a danger to your health or even life. Think about it, try to remember. Without fear there is no panic attack. What did you fear when your first panic attack occurred? Was it a skipped heartbeat, heart racing, feeling dizzy? You might not even recognize that your first panic attack was preceded by “Oh no” or “what if” type of thought, which caused it. Apprehension is the cause.
I believe that the first panic attack occurs as a result of perceiving the stress symptoms or other bodily sensations as a danger. This fear activates the fight or flight response and the result is a panic attack. The first panic attack leaves you in terrible doubts, you start you own logic, you did not see any danger therefore you are not sure what could have caused it. You board a train of worries and develop a fear of the next episode. You start with “what if”s, “what if it happens again”, “what if I die”, “what if I lose control” and so on. It is this fear and nothing more that drags you into cycle of panic disorder. This is a fear of panic attack, or otherwise FEAR OF FEAR. And by breaking this cycle of fear you can cure your panic disorder.
Well Said Alan… Very interesting indeed.. Its true.. break the cycle of FEAR OF THE FEAR! No always easy… but achievable with the right techniques…
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Very interesting posts; although I suffer daily from mild to strong attacks; I have not revisited this topic on the internet for quite some time. Thanks for all the different angles.
In my particular case I feel that my attacks are caused from nothing more than a genetic defect, a lack of proper chemical balance. My father developed it after Vietnam, which was then labeled as PTSD, but he didn’t get the attacks until his early 30’s, over a decade past Nam.
I started having attacks in my early 30’s for no reason at all, and can’t think of a single reason why this has happened to me. My first attacks were like heart attacks, but after three visits to the emergency room, I realized it was a waste of time. So far medical doctors have been no help and could only recommend a psychiatrist which I finally sought out only 3 years ago. I am now 40 and in no better condition.
Before the event I had actively participated in numerous extreme sports. Motorcycle racing, rock climbing, skydiving and anything else I could get a thrill from. I have quit all those activities not because I’m afraid of them or even afraid of death, I have stopped them because I get dizzy when I have mild attacks and would be a danger to others around me, not to mention, now I’m on Klonopin daily to help mask the effects of anxiety so I can actually go to work.
Luckily I’m a software developer and have little interaction that causes anxiety. I can’t imagine how others can continue on working in certain job fields.
It’s not that I’m afraid to do things; it really comes down to just being more comfortable not putting myself in situations that cause heightened anxiety or brain activity. There is no point in trying to be brave other than for the reason to be brave. Movie theaters freak me out, as do crowded restaurants, for me its instant anxiety. I avoid them. Therapist say to embrace them, but so far that hasn’t helped a single issue in three years.
I don’t see a cure for this and have accepted the inevitable. It just amazes me that there are so many people who have had normal lives that all of a sudden get changed without reason. My heart goes out to all of you. There is no one who knows what it feels like except another person who has experienced it, especially someone who lives it every day. Others don’t understand it. I feel like I’m in constant fear, but it’s not fear. There is nothing I fear. So what is this feeling then?
My ending comment, brain chemistry, I would guess that many cases are nothing more than that.
It’s just plain bad luck, bad roll of the genetic dice.
Many of the recommendations on numerous posts sound like good advice but without any actual experience to go with it. Some of you sound like my therapist. Good luck with your fight or flight theories.
Scott H – 8 years suffering
Treatment, psychologist and psychiatrist, Yoga, Tai chi, thought reprogramming, exercise, vitamins,
Books, CD’s and anything else that was probably mentioned here. But thanks for the support.
God help us all.
Hi Scott,
I’m sorry you’ve suffered so long. I know how hard it is to believe that nothing is causing this to you except you yourself. Of course you can believe in whatever looks credible for you, but I offer you to evaluate everything only by logic. Ok, you believe that your anxiety is caused by “a chemical imbalance”, which in turn is caused by your genetic makeup. Now just think for a moment, nobody until the 20th century had such thing as panic disorder. You cannot find any single record of it in the history. So how could it become genetic in just 1 century? It’s not possible. Of course genetics are involved, but only to the point where you inherit a very sensitive nervous system. It is only up to your environmental factors whether you develop panic or not. Oh and theres one more thing. You remember the time when you did not panic right? So how exactly can you explain this thing being completely genetic and not being around until your 30s? I think that you learned anxiety. This is the problem here, not some brain abnormality. You just fall for the big anxiety trick every time when you believe that your brain is somehow different from others’. This is what keeps your panic going. Until you solve your doubts you cannot break free from panic. Unless you have clinically proven fact that there is something wrong with your brain, believe me, it’s just a trick. Nothing is causing this to you. A panic attack is just you being afraid the way you feel. It’s you being apprehensive, thinking about the worst that could happen to you. You had panic attacks, you think that you’ve tried everything and because nothing helped you deducted that therefore you should have some kind of abnormality in your brain. WRONG! You’ve fallen for the big anxiety trick, that makes you believe that there is something wrong with you.
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I was very interested to read your article as I did look in Google for ‘panic attack cure.’ The reason was simple. I wanted to see what people who want to cure their panic attack find.
I was relieved to read an honest view instead as you say, one that smells of snake oil.
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All the talk about cures is nice. What about a cause?
Wow this article is quite pessimistic. There no such thing as a cure for panic and anxiety, because guess what? We need it to survive. It’s been the most basic feature of human beings for the past couple thousand years. In fact if you were cured of anxiety and panic you probably wouldn’t do anything at all, but sit around staring at a wall.
Now what we’re talking about here is getting over the irrational fears that cause panic attacks where they’re not welcome. Can they be overcome? Yep. Once you face your fears and move through them they aren’t going to have the same grip on you as before.
Everybody is afraid of something, just not everyone expresses it the same way or in the same degrees.
But I do agree with the post about snake oil salemans preying on the desperate.