A panic attack occurs suddenly, often without a clear external reason. Rapid breathing, chest tightness, a feeling of choking, dizziness, or the fear of losing your mind.
Everything feels like an emergency, even though objectively there is no external threat.
In Gestalt psychotherapy, a panic attack is understood as the climax of suppressed feelings and interrupted impulses that could not find their way out. The body then takes over the expression for us.
Panic attacks often occur when you:
suppress emotions for a long time "to be strong,"
ignore your boundaries,
stay silent for too long about what is hurting you.
Psychotherapeutic work helps you discover:
Which emotions did you have to keep inside?
Which part of you was trying to warn you but was not heard?
In psychotherapy, we do not try to "stop the attack," but to understand the message it carriesWhen you gradually restore contact with yourself, panic loses its power because you are finally there – present with yourself.
The return of the feeling of control does not come from avoidance, but from the courage to stay with yourself when things get difficult.Psychotherapy gives you the space to learn exactly that.
If your body is sending a cry for help, you don't have to ignore it anymore.
Psychotherapy can be the place where your fear is truly heard for the first time.
Love your day. Return to yourself.