How do paper bags help with panic attacks?

When you breathe into them it forces you to control your breathing by limiting air intake thus preventing hyperventilating

When you have a panic attack, your fight or flight response is activated. The fight or flight response is a part of your Sympathetic Nervous System. This response causes your body to undergo physical changes, as it prepares you to face what it deems to be a threat. Hormones shoot throughout your body and you begin to take fast and shallow breaths. This is because your body is trying to get as much oxygen to your muscles as possible. This is also known as hyperventilation. When you hyperventilate during a panic attack, you-- to put it one way-- overdose on oxygen. This causes you to feel lightheaded, can make you feel as if you are in a dream, and can cause tingling in your limbs or face. Breathing into a paper bad helps combat this by balancing out your oxygen intake. When you breathe in from a paper bag, you are breathing in more carbon dioxide. This helps stop the fight or flight response symptoms.

Well, I don't think it helps directly with the panic attack, but rather prevents a person from hyperventilating or "overbreathing". I used to use them when I was little and getting nervous before dance recitals.

Paper bags do not help you with panic attacks they don't help you at all there is no benfit from them.

They reduce the amount of oxygen in your blood, when you breathe out, you bring carbon dioxide and oxygen into the bag, and when you breath in, you will take in same breath you just released. This air will have less oxygen in it and thus your blood will take up less oxygen. Panic attacks are often caused by an overflow of oxygen in the brain and thus breathing in a bag helps.

it helps you breath more witch helps the air entering your brain witch helps by calming you down and makes you think clearly

By reducing the amount of oxygen into your brain, the amount of spiraling thoughts can be reduced. I have not tried it personally, but I have heard it helps!

The paper bags help slow your breathing down, which helps you feel more relaxed when dealing with the situation.

They say it helps you with hyperventilating. That the air flow of it should calm you down. That the way you are breathing in and out of the paper bag should help your heart rate slow down.

One of the symptoms of panic attacks is rapid breathing, which can lead to hyperventilation if left unchecked. Breathing into a paper bag limits the amount of air you can take in, reducing the chance of hyperventilation.