The panic room.

Ok 1st off please excuse my drawing, my CBT therapist explained this to me last session. So will share it with you.

The above diagram is your brain.

The P stands for : The initial perception
The S Stands for: The storage of that perception.

Now when we learned to ie: Brush our hair, we must have watched someone do this 1st and got the initial perception of this, when actually learned to brushed our hair we then store that perception in our brain.
Its the same with anyhting else such as learning to do your shoe laces/ learning to switch a TV on/ learning to eat.

And what your brain does is store them in different rooms so when the time comes to it, without really thinking about it your opening up a little room in your brain to let out your storage perception and brush your hair for example without much thought. Its so fast you dont even think about what you thought about doing as it seem automatic.

Well this is the same with panic as "anxiety" etc has its own little room and all it takes is that small minute bad thought (trigger) which happens so fast you may even miss it (hence why ppl say panic attacks just come on suddenly without warning).