Summary: For the people who have panic attacks and generalized anxiety disorder, many remedies do not provide a permanent solution, and if using drugs to deal with the attacks, the side effects can be quite bad. Here are four important tips so people can prevent panic attacks on a permanent and complete basis.

If you have experienced either mild or severe panic attacks, you know that until you have found a real permanent solution, any remedy like medication will only stave off the symptoms while you are taking them. Drugs can have very bad and even intolerable side effects as well, so it is necessary to find a real solution, not just a fake one.

So if you really want to prevent panic attacks from happening in the first place, here are four tips to get you headed in the right direction to find a real and permanent solution.

One, Get the Right Diagnosis

Though panic attacks, once you know what they are, are pretty distinctive, until you are really sure what they are, you can be misled into thinking they are the wrong thing. As the heart rate may increase significantly, you may experience chest pains and hot flashes, you may easily confuse a panic attack with having a heart attack. Because you may experience a strong fear, whether it be fear of flying, fear driving, or generalized anxiety, you may have trouble understanding why or even what is happening.

It is therefore very important to get a proper diagnosis by a doctor. Doctors may need to take a number of tests to rule out actual physical symptoms, and to make sure there is nothing actually wrong with your organs. For your own safety it is very important that you do this.

Two, Accept that the Panic Attacks are Real

Attacks are not caused by real events. They are caused by fear only. They have their own reality, but this reality is simply a fear of something else that does not exist. They are caused by some past event or events that made some impression on your mind, and whenever some kind of trigger comes along that re-stimulates the memory of that past event, even if you don't consciously remember it, you re-experience that fear.

And as you don't consciously know where the fear is coming from, great amounts of confusion can result. This can be very disorienting, resulting in a sense of loss of control, or even of going crazy. Or fear or terror of going out of the house. So by understanding and accepting that you are experiencing panic attacks and nothing else is an important step in freeing yourself from these phantom fears.

Three, Distinguish the Possible from the Impossible

There are always going to be certain events in your life over which you have no control, such as world events, death of relatives or friends, severe weather. It does no good to stress yourself over these things. They are a part of life. Everyone in the world experiences these things, and so it is just best to accept them.

Four, Attack the Panic Attack Head-On

Here's one exercise you can do. If you begin having an attack, and now you understand that it is not about anything real, and there is nothing you can do about past events, just attack it head-on. It's kind of like saying, "hey, I see you" to the attack, and saying "Do your worst! I dare you! Do it right now!" And demand the episode do its worst right away, because you simply have no patience for such foolishness. You can actually play with your panic attack. It's just a mentally stimulated process like any other, and if it's going to abuse you, you can abuse it just as much back. It's a game.

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