Even though I understand my anxiety and coping skills from a logical perspective, such as what triggers my anxiety and how I can calm myself down, why doesn't understanding make the problem better?

Possibly you could write down the coping skills that help you and keep them in your purse or car and at home as well. After you use these skills for a while, you brain can eventually learn to turn off the fight or flight and you can hopefully improve your anxiety.

I see it as wounds... we may know what caused the wounds, and what makes it worse, but healing needs to take place. If there is no healing, the pain will still be the same or get worse... understanding the cause of your anxiety is only one of the first steps in the healing process

Understanding does make the problem better in a small sense. It definitely helps, but taking action each day will work in the long run. Having and creating expectations that you will get better in a specific amount of time, is not viable. You just have to trust the process and when you're better, you're better.

Because the understanding it does not help you get rid of your anxiety..It might just happen that the person starts avoiding those situations all together.

I don't think anxiety comes from a very rational place in your mind. I know when I'm having a panic attack or anxiety attack, there's a little part of my mind screaming at me about how irrational it is for me to be feeling this way given the circumstances, but sometimes it still just happens. I don't know why exactly, but I know it doesn't and I think that's what can make dealing with anxiety difficult is that it's not always rational.

Even though you know this logically, when you have anxiety or panic attacks, you brain goes into fight or flight mode and all of the rational thinking stops. One way to do calm yourself is to be proactive and have a plan. Possibly you could write down the coping skills that help you and keep them in your purse or car and at home as well. After you use these skills for a while, you brain can eventually learn to turn off the fight or flight and you can hopefully improve your anxiety. Try to prepare yourself in advance if you think you will have anxiety or panic. Tell yourself that you can be logical and follow the steps in your plan if possible. Having a plan to focus on is helpful to our brains as it gives it something to follow instead.

Although you understand what triggers it and how to calm yourself, have you questioned your anxious thoughts? Questioning your thoughts involves replacing the anxious thoughts with more positive, realistic ones. This can be done with CBT techniques. Then you practice this new way of thinking by challenging yourself, putting yourself in anxiety triggering situations gradually or accepting the triggers and being neutral about them. Overall, it takes practice and time. The most important thing is to question your anxious thoughts and gradually expand your comfort zone.

Because when you have anxiety or panicking you know its a panic attack but a part of you thinks that its something totally different but for others it could be different.

because it doesnt make it go away. you know what it is and maybe you know how to handle it somehow but it wont go away just because you know what it is

Unfortunately anxiety can really be a prison for the mind. Although you understand where it comes from and how to bring yourself down from that, the anxiety will always be working against you to tell you that you aren't good enough.