Topic Overview
- Stay with the person and keep calm.
- Offer medicine if the person usually takes it during an attack.
- Don't make assumptions about what the person needs. ...
- Speak to the person in short, simple sentences.
- Be predictable. ...
- Help slow the person's breathing by breathing with him or her or by counting slowly to 10.
What are the five ways to help someone having a panic attack?
Here are some helpful ideas that you came up with.
- Know your triggers. ...
- Leave the situation. ...
- Grounding techniques. ...
- Meditation and mindful breathing. ...
- Visualize a safe place. ...
- Counting. ...
- Let it happen/ride it out. ...
- Talk to a friend or family member.
How do you comfort someone with anxiety?
Ask what they need and then do it, even if their request seems silly to you. (Like that time I asked a friend if we could just not talk at all until I calmed down. Sorry, friend, but thanks for agreeing.) Showing you're willing to offer assistance helps us anxious folk feel like we're being taken seriously.
