Each and every day I get people asking me for the best panic disorder treatment option.
Most of the time, those who ask me that question are looking for a quick fix.
For those people, the best answers to give are always the things they can start using immediately, such as breathing techniques, relaxation methods, ways to sleep better etc.
And those tips and tricks can work well in the short-term.
But for the people who ask who are willing to take a more long-term approach, and who are also willing to try something that's less direct, I always make the suggestion that they look for ways to help other people, rather than themselves.
You might be wondering how the best panic disorder treatment option could possibly be helping someone else.
Here's why.
One of the very best ways to improve your own life is to improve someone else's life.
And one of the very best ways to feel better yourself is to make someone else feel better first.
It's a strange phenomenon that's evolved in us humans.
It goes back thousands of years to a time when our own survival depended on the survival of all those around us too - our community.
This survival instinct is still strong in us, and it still reacts positively when we help someone else besides ourselves.
If you improve someone else's mood, or you make their life better in any way, it will have a knock-on effect on you.
So knowing this, how can you make someone feel better right now? Maybe you can do something for a family member.
Maybe you can do something for a friend.
Maybe you can even do something for someone else who has severe anxiety and panic-related problems.
But try to do something for someone.
It might seem a strange approach, but this really is one of the best panic disorder techniques I know of.