Summary of Step 2 – Rapid Recovery Skills

  • These skills are designed to help you FACE panic not AVOID it!
  • Change the way you THINK – correcting catastrophic thinking significantly reduces the fear of panic
  • When you are no longer AFRAID of panic it will STOP happening
  • CATCH IT – CHALLENGE IT – CHANGE IT – TEST IT
  • Identify distorted thoughts using a Panic Sequence Profile
  • Keep a Panic Attack Diary
  • Change your BEHAVIOURAL REACTIONS – Reduce Safety Behaviour / Test thoughts / SAIL through panic
  • FACE and ACCEPT the feelings – LET PANIC HAPPEN
  • ‘Mindfulness Techniques’ – Learn to OBSERVE rather than REACT to the panic
  • Use ‘Normalising Statements’ and FLASHCARDS
  • How practice DEVELOPS
  • REMEMBER – NO MATTER WHAT – YOU ARE OK..

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