My gf tells me I just know way too much about this stuff and that adds to the problem. When I am in the midst of a panic attack, out on the front porch with my washcloth, she'll tell me that I am fine and I always come back with "but I am salivating profusely-burning in my throat-cold and hot at the same time, etc. and I read on IES that people get these things before it happens". Bless her, she sticks it out. I am trying to fight this way of thinking. I always remind myself that the last million times I felt that way, I didn't v*. It helps.