Nelson Mandelas Favorite Poem May Help Defeat Your Panic Attacks

Nelson Mandela used to read the poem Invictus everyday while he was in prison for 20 years. He said it helped to give him strength and courage to continue on in spite of difficult circumstances. If you recite this poem whenever you find yourself having a panic attack, you too may find the strength to defeat it and control it.

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Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.