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How to Help Someone Having a Panic Attack | POPSUGAR Fitness
If you have a friend or family member who experiences panic attacks, it’s natural to feel overwhelmed and helpless if it happens in your presence. Like any other mental health condition, it’s impossible to truly understand what a panic attack feels like unless you’ve experienced one yourself — but that doesn’t mean you can’t help your loved one through it.
By definition, a panic attack is a “sudden episode” in which a person experiences intense fear despite not being in any sort of danger. The fear manifests itself physically, and people who experience panic attacks often feel as though they’re having a heart attack or even dying. Here are some strategies to help a loved one through it.
1. Do a Grounding Exercise Together
Doreen Marshall, PhD, licensed psychologist and vice president of mission engagement at the American Foundation For Suicide Prevention, told POPSUGAR that the first step is to help the person “ground” themself and connect to the present moment. “Since panic attacks have a beginning, middle, and end, when someone is in the moment of an attack, encourage them to use mindfulness techniques or deep breathing exercises to help reset their nervous system,” Dr. Marshall said.
You can help ground someone by getting them to focus their attention on their immediate physical surroundings. For example, Dr. Marshall recommends having the person focus on a nearby object for 10 seconds or name five objects they notice around them. “It can also help to have the person make physical contact with a nearby object, such as putting their hands on a table or a chair or running their hands under cold water to help ground them,” she said.
2. Help Them Regulate Their Breathing
A panic attack makes it difficult to breathe, which is why the person may feel like they’re having a heart attack or dying. David Rakofsky, PsyD, licensed clinical psychologist and president of Wellington Counseling Group in Chicago, told POPSUGAR the best way to help a person regulate their breathing is to breathe with them. “By the time a person is in full panic mode, their blood gasses have likely shifted from an over-abundance of oxygen, which can fuel the accelerating state of the panic,” Dr. Rakofsky explained. “By regulating breath, you start to reverse this cycle.”
Dr. Rakofsky recommends the “times two” rule, which means that for every second you breathe air in, you double it on the way out. “Always keep in mind [that] a person in panic or in a heightened state of anxiety will not be able to take in a lot of air since there is a feeling of constriction in the chest,” he said. For this reason, Dr. Rakofsky says to start small and then work your way up to taking longer, deeper breaths together.
3. Know What Not to Say
“Avoid phrases that could provoke more panic and come off as dismissive, shaming, or blaming,” Dr. Marshall said. For example, you shouldn’t tell someone who’s experiencing a panic attack to calm down. Instead, use phrasing that shows you’re focused on listening to the person and helping them get through the panic attack, like “I’m here with you,” “Concentrate on your breathing,” or “Stay in the present.”
Dr. Rakofsky also emphasized the importance of never telling a person that the panic attack is all in their head. “The feeling of invalidation and psychological invisibility that comes with being told this is absolutely crushing and likely to bring about a greater state of panic and distress,” Dr. Rakofsky told POPSUGAR, noting that it also increases distrust and a lack of hope that they’ll find real, helpful treatment for their panic attacks.
“Once the panic attack is over, then you can help them address what may have contributed to the panic attack and seek professional help,” Dr. Marshall said.
4. Encourage Them to Seek Professional Help
If a person has panic attacks and isn’t receiving mental health treatment from a therapist and psychiatrist, encourage them to seek help from a professional who has experience treating panic and anxiety disorders. “Connecting with a mental health professional can help someone who experiences a panic attack or attacks have access to a resource who can help determine what’s happening in the moment as well as manage episodes over time,” Dr. Marshall said.
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Big Tech And White House Staff Working Hard To Manipulate Online Response To Favor Of Biden
(TeaParty.org Exclusive) – Americans aren’t buying the legitimacy of Joe Biden’s presidency. This isn’t like in 2016 when the Democrats whined and cried about President Trump colluding with Russia to steal the presidency.
There just wasn’t proof of that. It didn’t add up. It didn’t make sense. There was literally no reason at all to believe that President Trump had teamed up with Putin to defraud the American people and steal the election.
He didn’t need to. He had plenty of support and he won the election fair and square. Just like he won the 2020 election. President Trump had far greater support than Joe Biden and it was obvious and undeniable.
Yet, somehow, Joe Biden became the most voted for president in US history with 81 votes beating both the wildly popular Obama and Trump. Biden also managed to do this without winning the states of Florida and Georgia and without earning over 90 percent of the black vote, which has always been a must for any Democratic president to win.
There were so many election anomalies and irregularities and the American people plainly saw it. Now that Biden is in the White House the Democrats expect all talk of a fraudulent election to cease and desist.
Only problem is, they carried on with the phony Russian collusion hoax for President Trump’s entire four years in office. There is no reason for anyone in Washington DC to expect Trump supporters to just let it go when it comes to the stolen 2020 election.
Nonetheless, those in power don’t wish to hear from the American people. Online responses to Joe Biden’s virtual inauguration ceremony were overwhelmingly negative. This has led to White House officials to take action.
The Daily Wire reports a YouTube video of Biden’s inauguration had been disabled for comments though users could still give the content a thumbs up or thumbs down.
The comments appeared to have been enabled again at some point which resulted in around 1,000 people commenting, most of which were negative and the video received five times as many thumbs down responses as it did thumbs up.
Every tweet so far on his page has 70 to 80% negative comments. On the official White House YouTube page every video he has put out has 80% more dislikes than likes. Nobody voted for this guy. Maybe the people at the Capitol may have been right?
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— Crip (@Crip56844525) January 23, 2021
The White House turned off the comments on today’s press briefing on their YouTube channel. Before they did, I had one of the top thumbed-up comments saying “In before they turn off the comments.” Yes, I can predict the future.
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— Mark Dice (@MarkDice) January 22, 2021
“When he says, ‘I really believe it,’ is he trying to convince himself or us? When he says, ‘I’m not joking,’ did he think it would sound like he was?” one user wrote. “The only disrespect of the last four years came from the news media, not Donald Trump.”
“Say Hi before they silence your comments… welcome to 1984. The purge is underway,” wrote another user in reference to author George Orwell’s 1940s-era classic about a big-government dystopian future that now appears to be upon us.
The Gateway Pundit reports that after just three days in office, the Biden administration has disabled comments on all thirteen videos posted to the official White House YouTube channel and erased thousands of comments too.
The American people have provided a relentless onslaught of negativity on the White House channel, so much so that YouTube got involved and began manipulating downvotes to make Biden appear more popular.
Despite YouTube removing tons of downvotes, they still greatly outnumber the upvotes. How funny that even now that Biden is in office, he still needs votes manipulated in his favor.
The American people aren’t stupid and we aren’t buying this charade of a presidency. We know the Democrats engaged in massive collusion with state and local officials in critical swing states to pull off the biggest election theft in the world.
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The Women in Tech Initiative at UC is proud to announce the fifth annual Athena Award winners. Sponsored by CITRIS and the Banatao Institute and Berkeley Engineering, the awards recognize those who embody, encourage, and promote the inclusion of women in technology.
Nominations opened in fall 2020 and submissions covered a wide range of expertise and accomplishments. Awardees were selected by a distinguished panel of representatives from academia and industry. It was a highly competitive process and we thank everyone who submitted a nomination. The awards will be presented on March 12, 2021, during the annual Women in Tech Symposium. This year’s symposium will focus on “The New Era in Human-Computer Interaction” and will examine leading-edge technologies and challenges to ensuring equitable and inclusive HCI.
This year’s Athena Award winners include UC Merced Professor Teenie Matlock, World Economic Forum’s Sheila Warren, UC Davis Assistant Professor Katia Cánepa Vega, and the nonprofit organization Self e-STEM.
Academic Leadership:
Teenie Matlock, Ph.D.
Professor, Vice Provost for Academic Personnel, and McClatchy Chair in Communications at UC Merced
@TeenieMatlock
Teenie Matlock is the Vice Provost for Academic Personnel and a professor of Cognitive Science at UC Merced. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and has been awarded over $2M in extramural research funding. Matlock pioneered human-computer interaction research in the early 2000s, well before the ubiquity of attentive systems, and continues to push the boundaries of language processing through a deeper understanding of human communication. She is notably transdisciplinary in her approaches, meshing research across cognitive linguistics, experimental psychology, and human-computer interaction. At UC Merced, Matlock has broken down academic hierarchies and spearheaded an effort to hire new faculty using innovative approaches to inclusivity, and initiated the institutional membership to the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity. Her commitment to guide women to succeed in technology is reflected through the expanded career opportunities she has opened for her mentees. Her mentorship has led to her mentees’ acceptance to top graduate programs, obtaining tenure-track positions, achieving tenure, or landing competitive positions in the technology industry.
Matlock is one of the few Native American faculty in the University of California system and served as Vice Chair of the American Indian Council of Mariposa. She continues to build community by inviting Native American Miwok tribal leaders to open lectures that focus on tribal rights and to honor the location of UC Merced on ancestral lands. Annually, she has served as a liaison to the local communities surrounding UC Merced through various outreach and engagement events. Beyond being a top scholar in her field, Matlock is also a musician and participates in the Merced Community Jazz Band as a solo trumpet player.
Executive Leadership:
Sheila Warren
Head of Blockchain, Digital Assets, and Data Policy at the World Economic Forum
@sheila_warren
Sheila Warren is the Head of Blockchain, Digital Assets, and Data Policy at the World Economic Forum (WEF). Sheila’s focus on building solutions to real-world problems has helped shape the space of blockchain technology and digital identity. Her first technical contribution was the 2013 launch of NGOsource, a first-of-its-kind SaaS product that focused on international grantmaking and revolutionized the way diligence in the sector is conducted using algorithms and blockchain technology. At the WEF she oversaw the development of the first proof-of-concept to combat corruption in public procurement. She has become one of the most influential women in blockchain. Her co-authored paper “Blockchain Beyond the Hype” is the most downloaded WEF paper of the decade. She has provided testimony to the EU and UK Parliament, served on high-level advisory boards for the OECD, World Bank, California government, and several critical projects. Her insistence on inclusion and problem solving has already shaped the trajectory of this technology, and she conceived of and oversaw the creation of the world’s first comprehensive guides to central bank digital currencies and blockchain for the supply chain. The Presidio Principles, which launched under her leadership, are the first ethical framework for blockchain technology.
Sheila’s current team is staffed entirely by women, a rare representation in the field of blockchain. As a leader, she does not hide her personal responsibilities. She emphasizes new models of leadership and flexible work that better accommodate the realities of modern life. Her openness about being a mother of young children and the complexities of work-life balance are inspiring the next generation of women leaders in technology.
Early Career:
Katia Cánepa Vega
Assistant Professor, Department of Design at UC Davis
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Katia Vega is an Assistant Professor at the UC Davis Department of Design and directs the Interactive Organisms Lab. Katia’s pioneering research creates novel interfaces around the skin and within fungal colonies known as Beauty Technologies, Growable Interfaces, and Interactive Tattoos. This research integrates electronics into cosmetics to be applied directly to skin, fingernails, and hair to transform the body’s surface into an interactive platform. Her work in Beauty Technology (a term she introduced in 2012) helped open a field with innovations like Conductive Makeup, Tech Nails, Hairware, and FX e-makeup. Katia’s research helped open a new subfield in Wearable Computing by transforming the body into an interactive platform. Her work has been featured by the BBC, New Scientist, Wired, Discovery, CNN, and has received awards from SXSW, Ars Electronica, and the Ubimedia Competition, among others. She is the co-author of the book, “Beauty Technology: Designing Seamless Interfaces for Wearable Computing.”
As a Geek Girl LatAm Ambassador, Katia has a marked impact in encouraging Latina and female students to undertake STEAM disciplines. Seventy percent of the undergraduate students joining her lab have been women, and many come from outside the US (Peru, China, Taiwan, Turkey). Her design is women-centered, creating novel beauty technologies that are mindful of the social, aesthetic, and cultural perspective of women, and she positions women as innovation drivers.
Next Generation Engagement:
Self e-STEM
@selfestemorg
Self-eSTEM provides interactive, culturally responsive STEM literacy, leadership, and technical training for girls and young women. Self-eSTEM focuses on building the skills, confidence, and resiliency needed for the STEM workforce of the future. The organization helps young women visualize themselves as STEM educators, engineers, programmers, and future industry leaders and mentors. The program model is designed to scale culturally-relevant content for educators and provide participant support at core developmental stages: childhood, emerging adulthood, and early career. The Self-eSTEM team is recruited from the community they serve and shares the experiences and background of their constituents. Since 2014, Self-eSTEM has served over 1,200 girls and helped them realize their education and career pursuits.
Recently, Self-eSTEM launched a STEM Equity and Racial Justice Pledge as a direct response to our nation’s racial and gender challenges. It reflects a direct approach toward dismantling the systemic inequality and racism within STEM education and career pathways. The free program provides wraparound support and culturally relevant content to increase recruitment and retention of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) populations in the STEM talent pipeline.
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The Women in Technology Initiative at the University of California is a program jointly launched in 2017 by CITRIS and the Banatao Institute and Berkeley Engineering to advocate for women in the tech industry and academia to be proportionately represented and equitably compensated throughout the professional ranks.
The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and the Banatao Institute drive interdisciplinary innovation for social good with faculty researchers and students from four University of California campuses – Berkeley, Davis, Merced, and Santa Cruz – along with public and private partners.
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In terms of connectivity, the Mi Curved Gaming Monitor 34 has two HDMI 2.0b and two DisplayPort 1.4 ports, along with a 3.5mm option. The ports are accessible without too much of a hassle, and there is a shroud that hides the port enclosure.
The Mi Curved Gaming Monitor 34 has a 3440 x 1440 resolution and 21:9 ratio, and the 1500R curvature is ideal; it ensures the monitor doesn’t take up too much room, but you don’t notice any issues when gaming or reading text on the screen. The 300nit brightness is also decent, and coming from a Dell monitor that went up to 350 nits, I never had any issues in this particular area.
The Samsung VA panel is one of the best in this category, and the monitor is ideal for gaming.
The screen has a matte coating to prevent glare, and colors look great out of the box. Of course, you can always calibrate the monitor to set it up to your preferences, but if you don’t want to do so, know that the panel itself has a lot going for it. Colors are accurate, you get great contrast levels, and backlighting is even. The monitor uses a Samsung VA panel — like most other options in this category — and the 4ms response time is perfectly serviceable for most titles.
Before switching to the Mi Curved Gaming Monitor 34, I used a 25-inch QHD monitor. With the added screen real estate, I was easily able to run three windows side-by-side. Having used the monitor for just under four months, I’m fully onboard the ultrawide bandwagon. It genuinely makes a tangible difference in my day-to-day use, and I don’t have to deal with the hassle of using multiple monitors.
The monitor holds up just fine for viewing videos and movies, but know that most 16:9 content will show bars on the sides. As for gaming, I played over a dozen games over the last four months, and titles like Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Monster Hunter: World, Horizon Zero Dawn, and other AAA games look fantastic on the monitor.
I used the monitor with a gaming machine featuring a Core i9-10900K and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 — and then upgraded to a RTX 3080 — and while it lacks G-Sync, I was able to get up to 120fps in a few titles without any issues. But your mileage may vary based on the game.
Xiaomi Mi Curved Gaming Monitor 34 What I don’t like
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