@gingerw- I agree! I remember my Psychiatrist telling me a story that I've heard many times over since then. If you were to run up a few flights of stairs you would clearly feel your heart pounding. Well, you know that's what you just did and so therefore your pounding heart is accepted and you move on.
Yet when so many other synthoms befall us I know for me I immediately react and before i knew it, it became one of those items on my "no-go" list.
It all makes sense, but in the midst of a panic attack for me, non of that mattered! The more I learned about how powerful emotions were for me the better equipped I became in recognizing what was the trigger and found ways around them. Jim @thankful