What Causes Panic Attacks?

I am going to explain the root cause of panic attacks in most people.

How a panic attack works is through giving irrational thoughts power. In most cases and for most people when they have irrational thoughts they do not believe them. For example the idea that a pink elephant is sitting right beside you - you can think about it, but you do not believe that idea and so it has no power.

However, with some people - for one reason or another they have an irrational thought and either believe it or believe it could be. This leads to excessive worrying and if its allowed to play itself out, panic.

The first important thing you must understand about your panic attacks is why you are worrying about these irrational thoughts or why you give them power.

Now, you do not worry about a pink elephant being beside you, or other irrational ideas. However there is an irrational thought or a set of irrational thoughts that for one reason or another you have come to believe in.

The key is to tear this set of thoughts apart and understand first and foremost, why you are giving these thoughts power.

• What are you trying to accomplish by doing this?

• Why specifically are you giving these thoughts power as opposed to all the other irrational thoughts you could give power to?

• You dont worry about many things that other people might worry about, so why do you choose to worry about these specific irrational ideas?

When you start to understand yourself and the underlying causes, you can begin to initiate change and growth.