Personal Survival - Can You Deal With Panic?

Author: Gregory E. Rouse
Category: Survival

Personal Survival - Can You Deal With Panic?

Looking back on the first emergency situations I ever dealt with, I was always amazed at how the brain would start to racing no matter what you did.

Today's society has access to cell phones, street signs, people, and buildings. Help is accessible from everywhere.

But in an emergency, what if you can't find a familiar point of reference or there's no help to be found. Research shows whenever an individual is placed in a survival situation our basic fears begin to kick in (i.e. fear of death, dark, unknown, injury, animals, etc) and this results in PANIC.

To control panic use the STOP acronym:

The S T O P acronym:

S - Sit

T - Think

O - Observe

P - Plan

When panic begins to set in the first thing to do is sit down. Most people have a tendency to run or hurry, which usually results in more trouble.

Now follow the next step and think. Use your head and think, not panic, focus. Then, while you're thinking, observe the details and try to analyze all information. Your observation might reveal something that most who panic would miss.

Lastly, plan how you're going to deal with this emergency and then systematically do it.

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