Panic Attacks: A Natural Approach

by Shirley Trickett

Book Overview

Millions of people regularly experience the breathlessness, chest pains, sweating, and irrational fears that characterize panic attacks. Shirley Trickett has updated her authoritative book to include... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1569751870
• ISBN13: 9781569751879
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Ulysses Press
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Very Helpful Reading

Shirley Trickett writes understandable language and helpful guidelines for this illness. I recommend this natural approach to everyone who would prefer to achieve results without chemicals.

Really is helping me!

I've suffered from panic attacks for nearly all of my adult life (let's just say I've held @ 29 for a while!). While I don't suffer from an attack daily (although I did in the beginning), I do suffer from the FEAR of having an attack. Panic is slowly eroding my life away, and I find myself giving into it as I get older. I've read articles and information online about panic disorder and how to cope with it. I found this book and read it over the weekend. I felt as though Ms. Trickett cracked open my chest and looked into my heart and soul! At times, I cried because I felt as though she were reading my life's story back to me. The best thing I took away from this book is the information on hyperventilating - I had NO IDEA this was going on during a panic attack! In my opinion, Chapter 9, "Improve Your Breathing," is the MOST helpful how-to literature I've read about diaphragmic breathing. I've practiced yoga in both a studio and at home with DVDs, as well as found online information about deep breathing, and I was really able to put this type of breathing into practice thanks to this book. I've been practicing it as often as I can and I feel very calm and collected - I'm hoping that the positive practice becomes habit so I can remain calm. I also hope to be able to call on this breathing in the event of a panic attack AND before trying something that would put me in the way of a situational panic attack (flying and driving on the freeway are 2 things that toss me into panic). I would recommend putting this book into your library as a resource and couple it with any and all other resources you are using (therapy, medicine, etc.). For those of us that suffer from panic/anxiety disorder, we need all the tools we can get in our arsenal!

Simple Solutions You Can Apply Today for Immediate Results

After suffering personally from panic attacks, Trickett compiles numerous studies and self-help answers from medical journals and files, scientific publications, and empirical wisdom on how to recognize symptoms of panic attacks and how to treat them yourself.Covering topics from exhausted nerves to low blood sugar she gives some wonderful suggestions on how a healthy diet, muscle maintenance and proper breathing can reduce the cause and effect of Agoraphobia.Great book with lots of practical information.