Panic Attacks

Though panic attacks are quite real in their effectual manifestations, it is the perceived object of those experiencing panic attacks that is most often quite unreal, or at least unreasonable. While there may be legitimacy to the mental and physical paroxysm itself, the focus of the panic is rather illegitimate. This not best perceived by the general solidarity of those observing the person having the episode of panic who are experiencing soundness of mind while the singular individual effusively erupts their complex mental state. It may be the case that said individual has access to particularly dreadful information and is actually the one behaving rationally. Nor is it in the individual’s capacity, or lack thereof, to articulate the foundation for their manic state. Rather, it is in the fact the object of their panic has become the singularity of their perceived version of reality and eclipsed the gestalt of actual reality. Perception is not everything. If it were, what if I perceived that perception isn’t everything? Would I be wrong? There is no paradox to be resolved here. The fact is that reality is incomprehensibly complex and is not constrained by a singular particularity of one person’s emotive state. In fact, the fullness of reality can only be perceived in totality by God, and the way in which finitude aligns itself with reality is to know the mind of God. It would be pretentious to say we can, in part, know the mind - much less the heart - of God unless he has spoken. The reality is, however, that he has and the more we align ourselves with that, the less panic I think there should be.