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Negative emotions (like sadness, stress, anger, etc.) causes your Serotonin production is low, when your serotonin level is low, you are more prone to anxiety, panic attacks, depression, etc.

Medications such as antidepressants (SSRIs - selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) contributes to enhancing the level of serotonin.
But there are natural ways to do it without medication. There's this strange herb called "St John's Wort" - it is said to be more effective than Prozac. No, this is not for mild depression only and ignore those words. In fact, it helps the anxiety and panic attacks as St John's Wort works like Prozac. Other natural ways will be exercise, diet, more exposure to light, etc.

The problem is that even if your Serotonin is balanced ... behavior that you "learned" in your mind. You need to break the initial cycle to destroy that learned behavior - Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) does this. A technique you can use without CBT will be Distraction ... There are several other techniques to help cope!
Ok, the use of Distraction: Firstly, try ....

Extract from the Source.