Is it possible to control panic attacks? Yes! I believe so because I used to have a type of panic attack and I don't anymore.
I did some very specific things that helped me.
The word controlling can help and hurt your chances of success though, because I believe you can't actually control anything.
You can, however, behave in a manner that will let your body and mind know that the panic attacks no longer scare you.
And once your response to the panic attacks is different, the attacks themselves will change, decrease, lessen, and fall away all together over time.
So how exactly do you do this? Dr.
Victor Frankl called a method by which this can be done Paradoxical Intention.
The thought behind it is that what you fear - what you anticipate negatively - you are actually helping it to happen.
The panic feeds off of the fear that it will happen.
Then it comes on for sure.
So, if you can find a way to look forward to the panic attack - to anticipate it positively - (so you are no longer afraid of it) then your response to it is much different.
Your thoughts are different.
Your biochemical reactions are different, and eventually you are in control.
The process of looking forward to a panic attack and telling it in your mind that you want more sensations and more scariness is the essence of paradoxical intention.
It sounds scary, but it can be very powerful.