Coaching practices for Panic Attack Physical Causes
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- The second my heart starts pounding, my brain locks onto one explanation
- What I’m actually terrified of isn’t out there in the world
- Now I’m scared of the feelings themselves
- When a panic attack peaks, all the breathing and reasoning techniques I’ve learned just slip right through my fingers
- Part of why the racing heart and the dizziness terrify me is that I genuinely don’t know they can’t hurt me
Practices that may help
- Generate alternative, benign explanations for the sensation
List all other things that could plausibly cause the sensation you're experiencing.
The Clark Panic Model, Made Practical - Add interoceptive rungs for bodily fear
If you fear the physical sensations of anxiety itself, include exposures that deliberately induce them.
The Fear Ladder: Graded Exposure Made Practical - Interoceptive exposure: deliberately induce the feared sensations
Reproduce the physical sensations of panic in a safe, controlled way to break the sensation-fear link.
The Clark Panic Model, Made Practical - Use the dive reflex as a first-response to panic
When panic peaks and cognitive tools fail, cold water on the face gives the body a hardwired override.
The Dive Reflex, Made Practical - Learn the physiology of anxiety: why sensations are harmless
Understand why racing hearts, dizziness, and shortness of breath cannot cause the catastrophe you fear.
The Clark Panic Model, Made Practical - Interoceptive exposure for physical anxiety sensations
Deliberately produce feared bodily sensations (racing heart, dizziness) to learn they are tolerable.
Exposure Therapy: Facing Fears to Shrink Them - Identify the catastrophic misinterpretation
Name exactly which bodily sensation you are having and exactly what you fear it means.
The Clark Panic Model, Made Practical - Hyperventilation induction exercise
Breathe rapidly through the mouth for 60 seconds to produce dizziness and breathlessness — then stay with it.
Interoceptive Exposure for Panic - Know the panic arc before the next attack
A panic attack peaks within 10 minutes and always subsides — not because you controlled it, but because the physiology is time-limited.
Panic Surfing - External focus: redirect attention away from bodily sensations
Shift attention outward during anxiety to disrupt the monitoring loop that amplifies sensations.
The Clark Panic Model, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Bodily Sensation Panic
Name exactly which bodily sensation you are having and exactly what you fear it means.
Identify the catastrophic misinterpretation
- Exercise Induced Panic
Breathe rapidly through the mouth for 60 seconds to produce dizziness and breathlessness — then stay with it.
Hyperventilation induction exercise
- Face Panic Feelings
Reproduce the physical sensations of panic in a safe, controlled way to break the sensation-fear link.
Interoceptive exposure: deliberately induce the feared sensations
- Alternative Explanations Panic
List all other things that could plausibly cause the sensation you're experiencing.
Generate alternative, benign explanations for the sensation
- Body Awareness Panic Attack
After inducing sensations, scan the body with curiosity rather than alarm.
Post-induction body scan to observe without catastrophizing
- Cognitive Model Of Panic
David Clark's cognitive model proposes that panic attacks are driven by catastrophic misinterpretation of benign bodily sensations — a racing heart is read as a heart attack, dizziness as fainting. This interpretation triggers more anxiety, which amplifies the sensation, completing a rapid escalating loop. CBT based on this model — identifying and correcting the misinterpretation — is among the most effective treatments for panic disorder, with a very large and consistent RCT evidence base.
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