Patience with Panic - a podcast by Ash

Having the patience to sit while in panic seems impossible. We want the feelings gone, we want it done and over with right now, we don't like suffering and the symptoms and after effects that come with it.

I had two panic attacks last night and only used ONE of my tools ONCE, and it DID help! We go to all the therapy and get all the tools we need, but don't practice them when we're not panicked and don't actively use them when we ARE panicked. We generally believe tools can be cliche, embarrassing to use, useless, take too long, and whatever else.

My thing is, especially when we're actively panicking, what's the worst that can happen if we actually attempt to take a breath, just to humor ourselves to see if it works...we know it won't make it worse, right? We hate it and want it to just go away, but aren't making the conscious decision to do anything helpful to combat it.

If we can challenge, question, fight the other situations and things in life we don't like, why not challenge this (ourselves/panic) too? Why not challenge the false feelings of fear, why not push back, why instead let the beast that is mental health take over without so much as a push back?

We have to give ourselves patience. We have to make a conscious choice of what we're going to allow and not allow. We have to be willing to sit in it in order to fight back. No easy feat right, but what is the alternative? The ultimate goal is to gain back that control little by little, at least when it's needed most. To get there, we have to have the patience to sit with the panic, so that we can do the work. More episodes on this to come. Subscribe, like, share.

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