One thing this is, in my opinion, missing: panic is a weird state. You might even know that what you're doing is irrational. It doesn't really help, and to make

One thing this is, in my opinion, missing: panic is a weird state. You might even know that what you're doing is irrational. It doesn't really help, and to make things worse, people telling you what's rational don't actually help (you know that you're not doing the right thing, you feel helpless about it already, last thing you need is people passing judgement on you). It's a tough problem, because sometimes panic attack strikes completely out of nowhere, even a person who was previously stable, even in situations less stressful than described (there's records of people panicking while crossing a street, to the point where they couldn't move). And it isn't always completely obvious to onlookers, and it might get your co-pilot, your climbing partner, or you.