This potential existential crisis has exacerbated my anxiety.

Thank you.

I didn't need a Xanax until just now.

You just repeatedly ask them to stop being crazy and calm down, easy! /s

My panic attacks is now a panic way of life.

Whenever that happens, the show within the show is the same except for any reference to the other show.

If the show is blatantly showing the reference to the very show it's in, however, it leads to a complete collapse of the space-time continuum.

CALM DOWN FOR FUCKS SAKE

Actual advice:

Your job is not to explain to the person what they are feeling is not real or rational. This is actively unhelpful. The experience is very very very real to the person undergoing it.

Remember that your body is chemicals. There are chemical systems that exist to tell you that you are in immediate, life threatening danger. These chemicals are able to override everything else - it is clearly evolutionary favorable to be able to just be on high alert sometimes.

These chemicals override your ability to reason. In the moment, some sort of physiological, primal reminder of safety. Food is good. Lying down. Touch and kind words from someone you feel safe around. Something that tells your body crisis is over and it is time to activate the parasympathetic nervous system.

Breathing exercises can be good, but if you do them like a drill sergeant that can make things much worse.

I’m fortunate at this point I think that I’ve burned out my body out with caffeine and high danger activities, along with experiencing something like Christian hell in a bad weed trip. I don’t think I react properly to danger anymore, but I don’t experience panic attacks annymoe either.

In the JJ Abrams Star Trek films, Kirk is shown being a fan of the Beastie Boys. The video for the song "Ch-check It Out" opens with the three Beasties beaming down in TOS-era uniforms. Further, the song "Intergalactic" features the line "like a pinch on the neck from Mr. Spock."

Does this mean that, during some off-camera mission, Kirk winds up in the late 20th century and inadvertently inspires the Beasties, who in turn insprire Kirk?

Oddly enough, this would work to alleviate a panic attack if somebody was interested…

Last Action Hero solved this paradox. In the fictional universe, everyone is played by Sylvester Stallone.

Sorry but when someone has a panic attack I just yell at them saying they're behaving irrationally /s

So do you all think Lorelai got whacked at the end of Gilmore Girls too, or nah?

Easy solution:

Gilmore Girls was a reality show in that universe.

Tony Soprano was a famous gangster after he got whacked.

It's all retcons, all the way down.

This is why the autistic kid is so quiet, he's keeps finding problems in canon.

In the CBS show Ghosts, the kid who played Young Sheldon guest stars as himself and the ghosts recognize him. That implies the ghosts watched him on CBS. Young Sheldon used to air back to back with Ghosts. So what did the ghosts watch in Ghosts time slot right after Young Sheldon?

Saving this for the next time I need it!

What if we all are just TV show characters that run on TV on TV?