Like any battle, you need to ensure that you have a well thought out strategy if you want to successfully get rid of your panic attacks. The old adage; fail to prepare, prepare to fail. is as true in this area as it is in military circles and all the top generals had one thing in common; they thought through every detail and covered all the angles.

As with any strategy or approach there are short, medium and long term plans contained within it and one thing you have to do at the start is to set yourself goals and targets. Now that doesn’t mean being unrealistic or saying that it will be completely OK within a few hours but SMART objectives; which is an acronym for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic (or relevant) and Timed. So simply saying I’ll beat this is not enough. Decide what is it that you want to be able to do and set about addressing that.

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