Dear Mr. Ritz:

You are very welcome.

“I will try to place myself in the OP as you call it. I think it sounds difficult to do, but I will try“- try it when you experience smaller distress than anxiety attacks so that you get experience and have a bigger chance of success when an anxiety attack happens. There are online worksheets on mindfulness skills, emotion regulation skills/ distress tolerance that include information and guidance on how to pause between a difficult emotion and the overreacting to it (getting consumed/ overwhelmed by it). One way to pause is to remove your attention from the center of the emotion.. to a distance away, and observe the difficult emotion from that distance.

Post again anytime, Mr. Ritz. I would like to read from you about how things progress.

anita