1. Anti anxiety drugs, such as benzodiazepines are prescribed for short time gain. They act fast and bring about a general improvement within a very short span. Moreover, if taken at the onset of the attack, the drug can stop it from becoming full-blown.
2. To fight anxiety attack on long-term basis, antidepressants like selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or Monoamine oxidase inhibitors are prescribed for long-term intake. If taken regularly, these medicines alter the neurotransmitter configuration of the brain. This in turn helps to keep depression away and block the anxiety attack.
However, all these drugs have some side effects at least. Benzodiazepines have a very short span of action and therefore are open to abuse. Moreover, they are habit forming and one can suffer from withdrawal symptoms when they are finally taken off. The antidepressants also have equally adverse side effects, though some has more than the others do. That is why not many people like to start on these drugs and prefer to suffer in silence.
Another problem with the conventional form of treatment is that you are required to undergo regular psychotherapy, which again seems too cumbersome for so many. That is why those who are suffering from anxiety attack are looking for alternative medicines and treatment procedures. However, if you are one of them, you have not far to look. You can beat not only panic and anxiety attack, but also hoards of other mental problem like depression and obsessive thoughts with homeopathic medicines like MindSoothe.
However, it is important to have yourself diagnosed first and do that in the conventional way. If you are suffering from symptoms like heart palpitation, sweating, shortness of breath, hot or cold flashes etc without any reason go and see a psychiatrist who is either an MD or DO. If he at all diagnoses your condition as anxiety attack and prescribes medicines, you can then decide what to do. If you have been prescribed SSRIs, you have now option to switch to MindSoothe instead. MindSoothe produced from herbs like St. John’s Wart and Passiflora Incarnata will produce the result, not the side effect.
PureCalm, which is another herbal medicine, is more effective as an alternative to the benzodiazepine group of medicines. It is produced from natural herbs like lavender, passionflower and lemon balm. If taken on time it acts quickly to curb the swelling anxiety within and bring about a clam disposition. You can take it on regular basis in prescribed dose or on as is needed basis. What is more PureCalm can be taken together with MindSoothe for results that are more effective.
If you are really looking towards alternate method of treatment, you should read books on anxiety written by ex-sufferers. Many people who suffered regularly from anxiety attack, but did not get any relief from conventional treatment, started researching on different methods. Most of them have come up with a unique method that has worked for them. Once they cured their own anxiety attacks, they decided to help others in similar situation and write down their experiences in the form of a book. May be one or two such books will turn out to be a scam, but definitely not all.
Panic Away is not a scam. Read the reviews and testimonials to be sure. Barry Joe McDonagh suffered from frequent panic attacks as well as from GAD, the generalized anxiety disorder. He not only developed a program that freed him from his trouble, but refined it suit others too. In his books, he tells us that you must stop fearing another impending attack, if you want to cure it all together because the anticipation of another attack actually sets in the wave of anxiety that consumes you in the form of an actual attack.
At least, read Panic Away to understand the core issue, why and how the anxiety attack takes place. Whether you take up the technique is for you decide. You can also take help from medicines like MindSoothe and PureCalm as you are going through the program. However, it is important to believe that you may need, but your situation is curable and that you are going to cure it. You must have faith in yourself to win any battle. It is all the more important if you are fighting anxiety attack.