When someone has a panic attack, their first instinct is to control the symptoms, and as we've seen, that can be very difficult. The important thing is to learn, little by little, to tolerate these symptoms so that we gradually lose our fear of them and they become milder or even disappear altogether. The more afraid we are of having an attack, the more likely we are to have one. The most important thing is not to let it limit our lives and, little by little, to confront those fears.