Panic Attack - Hotline Call

Transcript

Hello, how may I help you today? Hi, very nice to meet you. Now tell me, what's going on? I see, well the very first thing I want you to understand is that everything's gonna be okay and I'm here to help.

So right now, automatically, all I want you to do is close your eyes and focus on my voice. Can you do that for me? Yeah? All right, perfect.

You're doing great. Now with me, I want you to breathe in and out, okay? I want you to inhale through your nose and then exhale through your mouth.

Inhale and exhale. Inhale and exhale. Inhale and exhale.

Now, for the next thing I want you to do is just keep your eyes closed and I want you to keep breathing in and out slowly. Have you ever been to the beach? Any beach? Yeah? All right, well that's okay.

Whether you remember or not, I just want you to try to think about a beach. Imagine being in one. I want you to just imagine that you're sitting on the sand, that you can feel the sand under your thighs, under your legs.

I want you to, with your right hand, pick up some of the sand and just hold it on your palm and slowly turn your palm until it starts falling back down. I want you to feel, if you can, every single grain that is passing through your hand, through your fingers and falling and I want you to do it again. Remember that.

I want you to really think about how hot it is, how the sun feels on your skin, how it feels on the top of your head, how it starts to get very, very hot. I want you to reach up and touch the top of your head and remember or imagine how hot it gets when the sun is just on it for more than a few seconds on a hot sunny day. Now I want you to really think, really think about the waves.

All of the waves going on all the time, never stopping. How they just keep crashing, rushing and then crashing again and how they keep doing it over and over. I want you to take a deep breath again and really smell the ocean, the sand, the salt.

Maybe, just maybe, you can smell some food someone brought, whatever you can think of, whatever food you think would be at the beach. Maybe you just smell salt and it makes you think about the water and it brings you right back to the waves crashing one after the other, slowly crashing. And now while you're thinking about that, I want you to reach again and grab more sand and with your fist closed, I want you to open the bottom of it just a little bit, your pinky, and it rushes out in a perfect stream from your hand.

And now you reach down again and you grab more, you do it again. Now while you keep breathing, smelling in everything, I want you to grab your feet and imagine planting them into the sand, moving them in and out of the sand, getting between your toes. How every time you keep moving them in and out, they rush in between your toes.

Doesn't that feel nice? Yeah? Yeah? Okay, keep breathing in and out, in and out.

And I want you to look to your left, with your eyes closed, look to your left, and I want you to imagine some palm trees and how you can see them moving, the wind crashing into them. And I want you to look straight up and realize that you are actually sitting underneath one and you can barely see the sun in between the leaves, the sun just peeking at you. And between every second when the wind moves it, moves it, moves the palm tree.

And now while you keep breathing in and out, in and out, in and out. And I want you to tell me, how do you feel now? Yeah? Okay.

And when we started, what did you feel you were at? What number from one to ten? One being you don't feel anything, and ten being that you feel like you were gonna die, basically.

Okay, and then what number would you give yourself right now? Good, good. I'll take another deep breath, and out.

And I want you to tell me, very simply, what the plans are for you for the rest of the day. And don't overthink it. I'll be quiet until you tell me that you're done telling me, okay? Go ahead.

Oh, I'm so sorry, I should have clarified. I want you to tell me every little thing you have to do, it doesn't matter how small it is, okay? It doesn't matter.

All right, whenever you're ready, go ahead. No, you're doing great, you're doing great, it's okay. Take your time, I understand.

Go ahead. Hmm, all right. Well, I'm so happy that I could have been of assistance to you today, okay? You have our number, if there's ever any time that you need us, feel free to call.

We have people waiting 24-7 for any assistance you might need. And please feel free to share our number with anyone else you think might be in need of it, and I hope you have a beautiful day. All right, bye-bye.