{"id":100093,"date":"2020-08-21T20:04:48","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T00:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/?p=100093"},"modified":"2020-08-21T20:04:48","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T00:04:48","slug":"how-to-help-in-a-panic-attack-mental-health-first-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/100093","title":{"rendered":"How to Help in a Panic Attack | Mental Health First Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to Help in a Panic Attack | Mental Health First Aid\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lhk0pQ_cQTM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>      <br \/><p> Panic attacks are incredibly common, and it can cause people to hyperventilate and to breathe out a lot, which breathes off the carbon dioxide, can make you feel very light-headed and means that you can just not be able to control your breathing at all. It is very, very frightening. It can give you palpitations, it can give you tremor. There&#39;s a lot of people get so frightened, that they think they&#39;re\nhaving a heart attack. If you suspect somebody\nis having a panic attack, please don&#39;t be tempted to use paper bags or anything that you may\nhave heard about in the past.<\/p><br \/><p><img src='https:\/\/images.pexels.com\/photos\/568021\/pexels-photo-568021.jpeg?auto=compress&#038;cs=tinysrgb&#038;h=650&#038;w=940'\/><\/p><p>The best way is to stay as calm as you can and breathe nice and calmly, too, and the calmer you are,\nthe calmer they will be. Try and encourage them to\nbreathe in and out very slowly. So, try and remove them from anything obvious that is causing them\nthe distress, if you can, and try and get them to focus on breathing slowly in and out. Sometimes it can help to\nuse your hands to do that. But breathing techniques have been shown to be the most effective to calm somebody when they&#39;re having a panic attack.. <\/p><br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lhk0pQ_cQTM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">As found on YouTube<\/a><p><a href='https:\/\/pdctrk.com\/a\/750d771a'>Discover the First-To-Market Revolutionary SPR \u201cStatic\u201d Conversion Tech Which Dramatically Speeds Up &#038; Secures Existing WordPress Sites &#038; Cloud Affiliate Pages With Just A Few Clicks<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panic attacks are incredibly common, and it can cause people to hyperventilate and to breathe out a lot, which breathes off the carbon dioxide, can make you feel very light-headed and means that you can just not be able to control your breathing at all. It is very, very frightening. It can give you palpitations, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/100093\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to Help in a Panic Attack | Mental Health First Aid<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":100091,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[409],"tags":[5974,52506,52529,471,52530,52516,52526,52524,52532,52520,957,34012,23,34564,41080,35568,33777,43499,38188],"class_list":["post-100093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-attack","tag-first-aid","tag-first-aid-training","tag-health","tag-how-to-end-a-panic-attack","tag-how-to-help-someone-having-a-panic-attack","tag-how-to-help-someone-through-a-panic-attack","tag-how-to-help-someone-who-is-having-a-panic-attack","tag-how-to-help-someone-with-anxiety-and-panic-attacks","tag-how-to-stop-a-panic-attack","tag-mental-health","tag-panic","tag-panic-attack","tag-panic-attack-symptom","tag-panic-attack-help","tag-panic-attack-symptoms","tag-panic-attacks","tag-panicking","tag-safety"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/htmlIMG_5f3f3593c5b00.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}