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Chest tight. Throat small. That fast, certain thought: I can't get enough air. So you take a big deep breath, like everyone told you to, and it gets worse. Dizzy. Spinny. Scarier.
You're not doing it wrong. The instruction is wrong. Researchers hooked people up to a device during panic and found the thing nobody mentions: the suffocating feeling isn't from too little oxygen. It's from too much breathing. Here's the small move that actually works.
Maya is a nervous system educator, not a doctor. Nothing here is medical advice.
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