# Playing Uno Reverse Card on Panic Attacks

## Метаданные

- **Канал:** Therapy in a Nutshell
- **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gfc978c_2g
- **Дата:** 16.05.2026
- **Длительность:** 1:02
- **Просмотры:** 15,433
- **Источник:** https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/51575

## Описание

Panic attacks have a weird rule:
the more you try to avoid them… the louder they get.
It becomes the very thing that fuels it.
So what actually helps? Acknowledging it and choosing to feel it.  

Thanks to @youranxietytoolkit  for this interview! 

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## Транскрипт

### Segment 1 (00:00 - 01:00) []

Like he allows the panic to come. Like the goal isn't to fly without having a panic attack? — No, quite the opposite. If your goal is to not have one, you might be more likely to have one. Yeah. It's actually the biggest thing we want to say here and we say it a lot on my podcast, which is it's a beautiful day to do hard things. Yeah. We want to we want to bring it on, right? So this is where I was talking about be getting aggressive. If you're getting with aggressive with panic, but you're doing it in a white knuckling way, you're probably going to have more anxiety. But if you're aggressive in the form of like bring it on and panic, I bring it on. Give me your best panic attack. That is where it's as if your brain is like, "Oh, she's not scared anymore. Okay. All right. Maybe I don't need to send all this anxiety. She's showing me that she's not going to back down. She's showing me that we're not treating this like it's an imminent threat anymore. " And that's where the brain changes. Hm, it's so cool. And I've seen it, too. I've seen it happen and it works. Like it's awesome. — Yeah.