What to do when you are having panic attacks?

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• First of all, try to calm down and breathe deeply and slowly. It is important that you exhale a bit longer than inhale. If you inhale through the nose and exhale with an open mouth it can also help.
• Breathing into a paper bag is helpful as well. The trick is that you re-inhale your own carbon dioxide, in the result you make a balance between oxygen and carbon dioxide in your blood.
• In case you do not have any paper bags with you, cup your hands over the nose and mouth and breathe.