My wife works in the medical field, and one day while she was at work in the middle of one of my panic attacks I had texted her so she could calm me down. She had been on her lunch break and was sitting with her coworker that is a nurse, and she had explained my fear to him so that she could get a second opinion. By second opinion, I mean that I always ask her for solid proof/reasoning as to why I'm okay and that I don't need to be scared. Anyway, she had asked him about it and what he thought about why I would be okay. He said that because of having the fear for longer than I can remember, my body had come to a point where it sees v*ing as a threat, a life or death kind of issue, and that it will digest anything before allowing that to happen because my fear has trained me to believe that I may possibly die if it were to happen. I'm just wondering if anyone else sees some logic in this. I assume it's because of the IBS, but I have d* all the time. So I'm wondering if maybe that's my body's reaction to things that it doesn't want in me, as opposed to the other way out. I can understand what he meant, and it does make sense to me, but of course I still live in fear regardless. Especially with how much it's said that the brain is so powerful that it can be trained to do nearly anything, I wonder if we have the ability to harness that and train ourselves not to ever allow it to happen again. Any thoughts?