To control your anxiety you have to have a plan, sort of. What I mean by plan is a way to sort out an actual set of actions or thought processes to help you cope with your anxiety symptoms when they hit you like a pillow sack of bricks. The plan can vary from person to person since there is no one approaches that will work for everyone. However, I would like to highlight a technique that I use all the time. It is not a secret, involves no drugs and best of all it's free. In order to control your anxiety symptoms effectively you have to do two things. You have to practice these two things over and over for many days and maybe months - but it will help you cope. I offer no cures because I am reluctant to guarantee the unguaranteeable, but will say that if you give this a try it will help you to reduce your anxiety at worst and may even put your anxiety on hiatus at best.
First of all, you have to accept and let go. That is right, it is simple but upon closer inspection this is actually very hard. You have to accept your anxiety symptoms 100% and not add any more stress and anxiety when your symptoms are triggered. You see when we have a panic attack or other powerful anxiety related symptom it hits us hard, and as soon as it does this creates a great deal of fear and stress about us having the symptom (fear of fear).

Understanding Anxiety Disorders
One of the most common symptoms of anxiety disorders is panic attacks, which are intense periods of fear or feeling down. Panic attacks can develop over a very short time frame and they can last up to 15 minutes. Panic attacks are associated with experiencing at least four of the
following symptoms:
• Heart palpitations
* Chest pain
* Sense of choking
* Dizziness
* Sweating
* Trembling
* Shortness of breath
* Fear of death
* Nausea
* Feeling detached from the world
* Numbness
* Paralyzing fear
* Chills
* Hot flashes

Treating Anxiety Disorder
The road to freedom from anxiety for us took nearly ten years. My husband's anxiety disorder developed before the internet became so very commonplace in all of our lives. So there was not the easy access to information like we have today. Neither of us had a name for what ailed him because anxiety disorder wasn't as prominently discussed as it is today. All we knew is that out of the blue Rob's heart would start thumping, he'd feel dizzy and clammy - he was sure he was having a heartattack.
I'd rush him to the Emergency Room, the doctor would take some readings and tell us there was no heartattack. Not only that, Rob's heart was strong and healthy. I'd take him home, and before too long the symptoms struck again. And they kept on happening. Exhausted from worry we made an appointment with a heart specialist. He couldn't find anything wrong either.