The rush of a panic attack can feel completely overwhelming, but there are ways to calm yourself down, even when you’re in the middle of one. Trying to put a panic attack into words is tricky.

Although I love hosting, seeing everybody there is to see, and dressing up, I can also find myself getting easily ... My spinning thoughts slowed down Noticing my ribcage expanding and contracting ...

And even without it, I tried to breathe slower and focus on the present as a way to calm myself down, two techniques I learned from the app. Still, it's a bit counterintuitive to use your iPhone ...

Simmons continues: “I swear, when I found this, an hour and a half of trying to calm myself down to go back to sleep when I woke up at 4am turned into 15 minutes. “I didn’t even have an ice ...