4 Ways to Cope with a Panic Attack

How you deal with an attack can impact its severity and even its chances of recurring.

Bonnie Zucker
Mind Cafe
Published in
4 min readSep 29, 2023

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About a week after September 11, 2001, I was in the bathroom of my cousin’s house, hyperventilating and thinking I was having a heart attack.

Just before that, I was sitting at the dinner table, and the conversation had become very…

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Bonnie Zucker
Mind Cafe

I am a clinical psychologist and writer, and I specialize in anxiety prevention, education, and treatment.