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Why Do My Panic Attacks Come Out Of The Blue? (Podcast EP 294)
HELP! My panic attacks come totally out of the blue! I don't know how to handle that!
For an anxious person struggling with the process of anxiety disorder recovery, it can sometimes seem like panic attacks strike completely randomly and "out of the blue", where no clear source of anxiety can be identified as triggering the attack. This can be frustrating, especially if you've been working overtime to manage your anxiety and prevent panic from happening.
But there is no such thing as an "out of the blue" panic attack. In the context of disordered forms of anxiety, it is the resistance to panic and the urgent attempts to manage and prevent it that become the precipitating factors leading to future panic attacks. Trying hard to guarantee that you won't panic any more? Paradoxically, this is going to have the opposite effect, almost guaranteeing that you will likely experience more panic down the road.
When one is anxious about being anxious, or afraid of being afraid, the trigger for the most recent "out of the blue" panic attack can be found in all the panic attacks that came previously. The hidden trigger is in the checking, scanning, evaluating, and guarding against panic that allows a single sensation, thought, or feeling to trigger a rapid sequence of events that creates what appears to be a random, unexplainable instant panic attack.
It's actually good news that there are no true "random" panic attacks. We can use that information to make adjustments and change direction toward where we want be in recovery and in life.
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  • @lozb1631
    @lozb1631 10 годин тому

    Love the intro music!

  • @yezzi6
    @yezzi6 12 годин тому

    Very glad i found your content dude

  • @Deba7777
    @Deba7777 22 години тому

    Love this!🎉

  • @Deba7777
    @Deba7777 22 години тому

    THANK you soooo much for this! I was tracking with you all the way & honestly, this is the FIRST time I've ever heard this concept in such a clear way! I deeply appreciate your encouragement & have subscribed & shared! Will watch it to digest it more deeply again soon!👏👊🤺

  • @Deba7777
    @Deba7777 23 години тому

    I LOVE your intro, I get what you're saying & I think this kind of analysis is a great idea for me to try! Thank you, I'm SO glad you shared your process!"

  • @avk1391
    @avk1391 День тому

    So good. Thank you for the encouragement as always. Been following you for a few months.

  • @merichamarais9539
    @merichamarais9539 День тому

    With respect we can see who is on. Can we just get on with the question please. Thank you

  • @stevea6330
    @stevea6330 День тому

    First time living alone was 5 years ago at the age of 50. It's been brutal and still gives me anxiety. Not sure what to do.

  • @laza6141
    @laza6141 День тому

    5:35 , 17:24 , 25:23 , 54:05

  • @janetbrittain8020
    @janetbrittain8020 День тому

    When I open my eyes, I immediately play a morning Bible meditation and I use this phrase : "Don't think, just move." Then I do just that, i don't think. I just put my feet on the ground and keep moving.

  • @Newhouse846
    @Newhouse846 День тому

    I usually find that the things I can come up with in anxiety...never happens.so I can maneuver through anxiety with that in mind .

  • @polandpoland
    @polandpoland 2 дні тому

    I wake up with nocturnal panic attacks 9 nights out of 10. They usually occur during a dream causing me to wake up. How do I figure out what is causing the Adrenaline? Is it the contents of my dreams that are triggering the fear? or just a random "adrenaline dump" that is caused by unresolved daytime anxiety? I keep getting them despite telling myself that they are just dreams and can usually fall asleep after a couple of hours. Still it's been 5 months and they keep happening. Any advice on this?

  • @melissacopeland5147
    @melissacopeland5147 2 дні тому

    I just joined your live stream with Emma from therapy in a nutshell on 6-27-24😊❤......and I just subscribed 💯🙏😊

  • @depueg67
    @depueg67 2 дні тому

    So true… well said.

  • @erose3089
    @erose3089 2 дні тому

    This doesn't sound like your synopsis about chapter 6 in the claire week's book with holly. I like this version better of acceptance. It seems more realistic and doable. The Claire weeks, the summary that you gave in chapter 6 seemed a little tougher and more strict. I'm gonna try to accept, but I'm not gonna like it because it feels like s*** And that's that I'm not gonna lie to myself and tell myself that I like it or I'm going to embrace it. Because who wants to embrace these horrible feelings? But I guess I can accept it. Does this make sense?

    • @erose3089
      @erose3089 2 дні тому

      Here in this podcast, you say that acceptance looks ugly. But in claire week's version, she says it looks like you're floating or you're like dancing into a room going slow and water that doesn't sound ugly.

  • @eddiesharrone8106
    @eddiesharrone8106 3 дні тому

    This gave me anxiety

  • @Newhouse846
    @Newhouse846 3 дні тому

    I'll feel horrible before the task, (new job, meeting people, tests ) once I am in the process I feel so much better. I would project the worst and then all would be ok Not perfect but ok.

  • @Spoorot
    @Spoorot 3 дні тому

    Hey, would appreciate if you could give me your opinion on my issue. For the past five years, I've been experiencing persistent, 24/7 atypical nausea, which began 7 months after losing my job and getting a dental implant. The nausea started unexpectedly when I panicked over a false belief that the implant had come loose. Despite the implant being intact, the nausea continued. For four years, it was my only symptom, but it has since been accompanied by repeated sore throats and upper right pain near the liver. Medical tests have all failed to provide an explanation. Dentists have assured me that the implant is unlikely to cause nausea. However, I've found online reports linking dental materials to issues like autoimmune diseases due to metal toxicity, albeit rarely. Given my history of social anxiety and depression, I'm torn between considering the implant as a potential contributor to my health issues or attributing them primarily to anxiety. While I've mostly accepted the latter, the uncertainty surrounding the implant being the cause occasionally resurfaces because of the implant being an outlier. if I never had the implant I'd be fully accepting of it being anxiety, but my case seems so strange. Most dentists are reluctant to remove a healthy implant, and I'm hesitant as well, fearing the impact of a missing tooth on my anxiety and depression.

  • @terrymoody4819
    @terrymoody4819 3 дні тому

    Love both of you guys! Drew is a little rough around the edges but really tries to be kind! lol Lily is inspiring and I have learned a lot from her! Drew has great insights as well. I am thankful for peace in my life and inspiration! I really do love both of you guys because I know you have experienced the same thing that I have!

  • @kennethvaughan6719
    @kennethvaughan6719 4 дні тому

    This is motivating. I’m feeling like doing hard things just to spite the trickster.

  • @brianautumn5238
    @brianautumn5238 4 дні тому

    Hey drew i have a question. If the thoughts related to my anxiety don't pop up but the feeling is still there, how would i go about "accepting" the feeling. Do i just sit with it and go about my day like i normally would despite the nagging feeling?

  • @aaronmercado9874
    @aaronmercado9874 4 дні тому

    I’ve never seen anxiety memes but I’m here for it

  • @valerie963
    @valerie963 5 днів тому

    I really do appreciate you sharing your own recovery encouragement and I think it would be a great topic for a podcast!! I’m there now and this speaks to me! It allows me to take the pressure off of myself.

  • @persvrij
    @persvrij 5 днів тому

    So, we better stop with looking at al these video's and podcasts? Better to (try to) agnore anxietu sympoms and go on with our lifes?

  • @leannejones6791
    @leannejones6791 5 днів тому

    Sorry to hear about your loss 💕 I really needed to hear this, meta cognition is such a big one for me for so long and it feels so good to feel understood and “normal” until I found you and Josh I didn’t know anyone who thought about their thoughts and feelings. I am actively working on my attention external and as soon as my attention goes inwards I feel so bad (so sensitised) Patience 😁 Thank you so so much Drew 🙏

  • @smile4menow123
    @smile4menow123 5 днів тому

    Great Advice Brother 👊

  • @cathreasejohnson2767
    @cathreasejohnson2767 5 днів тому

    Curious if you have any episodes on medication for anxiety and if you would recommend, or if you think therapy is the best route to recovery

  • @wendydiaz8988
    @wendydiaz8988 6 днів тому

    Anxiety requires RESISTANCE to exist. 💯 The more you resist the more it exists. The opposite of resist is to accept. Accept…. Then anxiety can’t exist.

  • @shonamcinally696
    @shonamcinally696 6 днів тому

    Thanks for this Drew, I struggle every single morning with the horrible sensation of pain and nausea in my stomach and then i catastrophise. I’m going to strat to do this and just sit with those feelings. My brain is very persistent and will scan every couple of seconds, but hopefully in time that will ease. It’s been the habit of a lifetime, but I hope with time I can have a different waking up scenario x

  • @Justlove1114
    @Justlove1114 6 днів тому

    Why you don't have a million subscribers, is beyond me !

  • @Jeremiah4527-ff8hz
    @Jeremiah4527-ff8hz 7 днів тому

    I thought i died

  • @pinkrainbow4316
    @pinkrainbow4316 7 днів тому

    ThankYou Joel

  • @Luki82
    @Luki82 7 днів тому

    offtopic...any chance on Anxiety and Panic thru out of history episode?, especially ancient...how people were dealing with it using people's wisdom, how effective were they?... who have it right, and who not.

  • @sumitrajput2777
    @sumitrajput2777 8 днів тому

    ❤❤

  • @findingyourself8310
    @findingyourself8310 8 днів тому

    Wow so true. I’m usually stressed because I’m super busy which makes sense to be stressed. Then the fixation becomes internal of there’s something wrong with me. This shift of back and forth is exhausting, I’ll get it and understand then fall back in.

  • @shonamcinally696
    @shonamcinally696 8 днів тому

    Hi Drew, first of all want to say how amazing and helpful your podcasts are and you tube channel. I have been listening to your episode on Anxiety all day long. I am very aware I don’t want to tigger anyone here so want to say if you have emetophobia don’t read on! I was brought up in care and force fed, which caused huge issues around being sick for me. On this podcast about being anxious all day it talks about CPTSD. Should my exposures be different? I get up with an absolute sense of dread and anxiety and my first ocd thought is ‘what if I’m sick when I eat’ I know where this thought has come from and my urge is to flee from myself ( very hard thing to do) I make myself sit and eat regardless of the fear as I know that’s what I’ve got to show my brain that eating is safe and even if I was sick, I won’t die, but I also recognise that my whole ice thing is about feeling out of control and others witnessing my panic ( again from my childhood) . I’m wondering if there’s anything else I should be doing? I see a therapist every fortnight too. Thanks for any input.

  • @carolannerobinson8351
    @carolannerobinson8351 8 днів тому

    I had them. Man they were brutal! Thankfully, I had great therapy and learned how to experience the panic and cope with it during its cycle. But before I really signed onto the treatment, I was afraid to go to sleep. Luckily sleep is an involuntary response so at some point, I couldn’t help but fall asleep. Some of the safety behaviors I engaged in were listening to… This is funny… Songs from the 50s. At that particular time in my life, that was the only music I could tolerate lol. My poor husband’s sleep was disrupted for many months. Great podcast. You’re helping a lot of people.

  • @user-ry8dt9js6u
    @user-ry8dt9js6u 8 днів тому

    Thanks ! Drew

  • @sativacracraft2956
    @sativacracraft2956 9 днів тому

    I needed this too! Thanks!

  • @sativacracraft2956
    @sativacracraft2956 9 днів тому

    I needed to hear this. Its what im going through right now. Thanks!

  • @ruthmarland835
    @ruthmarland835 9 днів тому

    Absolutely it’s been around forever along with all these various mental disorders.

  • @chrisk9613
    @chrisk9613 10 днів тому

    I will say though that two times I had what felt like a panic attack out of the blue. It happened during a dental procedure. I'd never had any anxiety about dental work, just discomfort. Got the shot, dentist started work, then . . . bam! Panic attack. I also ended up barfing a little. Blood pressure went down a bit, felt light headed. Turns out . . . it's possible that the shot of lidocaine went straight into a vein, which makes sense as the panic attack came on soon after I received the injection in my gum. Second time, shorter story. Pretty sensitive to caffeine in general, but was super tired before work. Chugged a full cup of Vietnamese coffee (very strong) since I was running late. About halfway through my commute I had to pull over. Felt like a panic attack. After about five minutes it was over. So . . . there could sometimes be a non-anxiety related reason. Of course, for the majority of people it would be a cause they're not even consciously aware of.