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What Really Happens in Your Brain During a Panic Attack

What Really Happens in Your Brain During a Pani...

A panic attack isn’t just in your head—it’s in your brain. When the amygdala fires like an alarm, stress hormones flood your body, the prefrontal cortex loses control, and neurotransmitters...

What Really Happens in Your Brain During a Pani...

A panic attack isn’t just in your head—it’s in your brain. When the amygdala fires like an alarm, stress hormones flood your body, the prefrontal cortex loses control, and neurotransmitters...

The Fight-or-Flight Response: Why Your Body Overreacts

The Fight-or-Flight Response: Why Your Body Ove...

The fight-or-flight response is meant to protect us, but for many people it fires too often and too strongly. A racing heart, shortness of breath, and shaking hands can strike...

The Fight-or-Flight Response: Why Your Body Ove...

The fight-or-flight response is meant to protect us, but for many people it fires too often and too strongly. A racing heart, shortness of breath, and shaking hands can strike...

The Role of Neurotransmitters in Panic and Calm

The Role of Neurotransmitters in Panic and Calm

Panic attacks aren’t just psychological—they’re chemical. Neurotransmitters like GABA, serotonin, dopamine, norepinephrine, and glutamate orchestrate the balance between panic and calm. Too much excitatory signaling and too little inhibition can...

The Role of Neurotransmitters in Panic and Calm

Panic attacks aren’t just psychological—they’re chemical. Neurotransmitters like GABA, serotonin, dopamine, norepinephrine, and glutamate orchestrate the balance between panic and calm. Too much excitatory signaling and too little inhibition can...

Why Some People Are More Prone to Panic Attacks

Why Some People Are More Prone to Panic Attacks

Why do panic attacks strike some people more often than others? Genetics, brain chemistry, trauma, personality traits, and lifestyle all shape vulnerability to panic. People with sensitive nervous systems may...

Why Some People Are More Prone to Panic Attacks

Why do panic attacks strike some people more often than others? Genetics, brain chemistry, trauma, personality traits, and lifestyle all shape vulnerability to panic. People with sensitive nervous systems may...

Adaptogens for Panic: Nature’s Stress Buffers

Adaptogens for Panic: Nature’s Stress Buffers

Panic attacks hijack both body and mind, leaving you shaky, tense, and overwhelmed. Adaptogens—herbs like ashwagandha, rhodiola, holy basil, and schisandra—act as nature’s stress buffers. They help regulate cortisol, balance...

Adaptogens for Panic: Nature’s Stress Buffers

Panic attacks hijack both body and mind, leaving you shaky, tense, and overwhelmed. Adaptogens—herbs like ashwagandha, rhodiola, holy basil, and schisandra—act as nature’s stress buffers. They help regulate cortisol, balance...

How Cortisol Control Improves Your Charisma

How Cortisol Control Improves Your Charisma

Charisma isn’t just about charm—it’s about chemistry. When cortisol, the body’s stress hormone, runs too high, you appear tense, reactive, and distracted. But when cortisol is balanced, your body relaxes,...

How Cortisol Control Improves Your Charisma

Charisma isn’t just about charm—it’s about chemistry. When cortisol, the body’s stress hormone, runs too high, you appear tense, reactive, and distracted. But when cortisol is balanced, your body relaxes,...