"Essentially there's two different aspects at work, when it comes to -- ah, this sort of thing. There's the mental side of it, stressing you out by remembering the awful things that have happened. And then there's the physical side of it, you know, the elevated pulse, the heavy breathing, that stuff." He holds out one hand to illustrate the 'mental side' and one to be the 'physical side'. "They like to work together against you, in these situations," he says as he brings both his hands together, lacing his fingers together. "Sometimes if you stop one side, the other will soon follow. So if you can think about where you currently are, the concrete sensations of being in the current moment, instead of either imagining terrible things that haven't happened yet, or remembering awful things that did, that might slow down your breathing and the other physical manifestations of the panic attack. Conversely, sometimes if you're able to just force your body to slow down by regulating your breathing enough or whatever, it can often make your mind slow too, and you'll come out of it that way. Doing both at the same time generally has the best results, of course. You know, sometimes people, in the time period I'm from, they'll get big dogs who are trained to know when they're going through a panic, and the dog will just sort of... sit on their chest until their breathing returns to normal."