How can you stop anxiety attacks?

Diaphragmatic breathing is a great strategy to help calm you down during a panic or anxiety attack. Please visit one of 7 Cups of Tea's Self Help Guides dealing with Panic Attacks or Anxiety in general. There will be a video listed underneath the breathing category. Attempt to learn how to breathe and visit www.calm.com (make sure your volume is turned up!). Slowly breathe as you watch and listen to the serene imagery and meditation music. Try to clear your thoughts and think of a place where you feel the most comfortable or relaxed (the ocean, your home, etc). Let me know how it goes! I hope this helps.

Realizing that what your experiencing in the moment is an anxiety attack and that it will pass. The sense of impending doom might be there but telling yourself that nothing bad is happening and it will be over soon. Close your eyes and take a deep breath, try to relax and not think about anything stressful. Get up and walk around if needed to get the blood circulating. Putting your hands in warm running water seems to be a great trick to use if you are still feeling anxious. It's calming and at the same time get's the blood flowing a little better.

The number-one thing I do is try to shift my awareness from some feared future event to the present moment. Am I safe and relatively comfortable now? If so, I can pause, breathe, and re-assess the situation. In my experience, anxiety is often the result of distorted thinking. I have to ask myself whether my fears are rational, and explore what has caused it. What is the worst possible outcome? How likely is it? These considerations can help "right size" the problem.

Deep breaths, distraction, grounding techniques, therapy, medicine, facing fears slowly, avoidance only makes it worse.

im not sure if there is a stop. usually i just have to ride them out and use my coping mechanisms that i learned at therapy

Find trustworthy friends and talk it out, mostly your true friends will listen and help you get through it :)

It can feel childish after the fact, but covering my face is my #1 reaction. Taking away all outside stimulation like that can allow me to focus on breathing and grounding myself. I recite my name, my age, where I am, what year it is, and continue onto affirmations from there.

I'm sure you have heard it before. Deep breaths! You are probably tired of hearing about it but I promise you! It works! A lot! When you are doing this, don't focus on anything else but your breathing! Give it a try

I find that stopping anxiety attacks is something that can be really hard, what helps me the most is thinking about the situation, almost constantly, without letting my fear take control, thinking things over, is an ''easy'' way of remaining calmer, even if just a little, and that in turn will help keep anxiety attacks at bay.

It's very hard to stop anxiety attacks. A good way that I relieve my anxiety attacks is to find something that keeps me busy, such as reading, or something to keep me distracted.