@sthr795 thanks for replying and giving us other tools, fantastic! You’ve suggested some great things to do when a panic attack first rears its ugly head. The only thing I can think of this morning is to say the day, date and time. I think it helps put one in the present. Many years decades ago, I agreed to help a friend pick something up in the little truck for her husband’s birthday gift. Friend had a panic attack while driving on the freeway. As a passenger, it scared the bejesus out of me. I’m trying to get her attention using her name and telling her to breathe as she was holding it. But she was able to identify five things -trees, car types, who I was, what we were doing and day, date and time. She went to therapy, learned to breathe, learned the triggers that could lead to a panic attack and I started agreeing to being a passenger again whilst she drove.
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