One of the things I'm learning in therapy is how not to panic.

This isn't an explicitly stated goal. I didn't come in saying, "I want help not panicking." (I did come in saying "Okay so I probably have PTSD of some kind," which might or might not be the same thing.) It's not something we spend a lot of time on - we have other things to take up the bulk of our time - but it's something I find myself picking up tools and tricks for on the way.

I'm not talking about panic attacks in the medical sense. I have had those, but they're rare. What I have, regularly and to annoying degree, are things that make me so flustered that I can't actually talk or think or engage with whatever was in front of me. Sometimes these are little things. Sometimes sensory things (but sometimes not). Sometimes things I can't even identify.