10/08/2026
For people with panic, one of the most common things I see is a habit that slowly became part of what keeps everything going.
Checking your pulse before getting out of bed, monitoring your breathing while sitting still, paying attention to your chest in a way you never used to. Every check sends your nervous system a signal that the sensation was worth checking on, which keeps the alert running, which makes the next sensation more noticeable, which makes the next check feel more necessary.
The scanning is actually one of the main things keeping the alarm switched on. If you want to understand how to change that, the program is in my bio.