How do paper bags help with panic attacks?

they help you focus on your breathing more

It helps you to think about your breathing rather than think about the stressor which is putting you in this state of mind. But don't get used to it. It's not always healthy. In terms of the carbon dioxide it lets you inhale in.

rebreathing Your exhaled 02 will help you from hyperventilating. It also give you focus on your breaths.

Paper bags help with panic attacks because it is a way of managing your breathing patterns. Often during panic attacks, you will hyperventilate of have difficulty breathing normally. The bag helps to control your breaths. It works, trust me!

They give you something to focus on. Ensuring your getting air to breathe. yet they don't always work for everyone.

It helps control your breathing so that you don't take quick little breaths or deep long breaths. Breathing right plays a huge roll in panic attacks.

Paper bags can be great help under panic attacks when you breath rapidly and feel like you loose control. By breathing into a paper bag you can gain back that control as well as your breathing.

I found whenever I had a panic attack they helped control the depth of my breath. Instead of panicking and taking lots of shallow breaths I would focus on filling the bag and then deflating it as slowly as possible and this brings your breathing back under your control

Pursued lip breathing and breathing into paper bags help with reducing anxiety. People who are having anxiety attacks are expelling too many carbons at a time therefore breathing into a paper bag or doing pursed lip breathing are expelling minimum amount or or the regular amount of carbons at a time. Breathing into a paper bag forces the person to expel the carbons they are exchanged with a person, and they release the correct amount.

Some people believe that it helps you control your breathing better by breathing into a paper bag? Personally I've never done this so I wouldn't know, But it supposively helps.