Worst Pannick Attack I've Ever Had Posted: 01-07-08 13:54pm
Last week I woke up thinking I was
terribly sick with the stomach flu. I
felt like throwing up. I laid back down
twice to see if I could sleep, but I just
kept feeling like vomitting and I couldn't
sit in any one place for any length of
time. Then after a little while, I
started to feel kind of....fluttery. Like
there were electric bolts running through
me and I couldn't sit down, but It was too
scary "out ther" to leave my room, so I
sat in my room sobbing uncontrollably and
I just couldn't stop. My husband was
really good about it, but I thought for
sure I was going to die. Well, maybe not
to die, but I felt like exploding or
running or something. It took about 45
minutes after taking the Ativan to feel
normal again. It was so strange-it felt
like my house wasn't really my house and
this was a reality on a slightly different
plane than the one I was used to. I was
afraid to do anything, but I couldn't
stand just sitting there. I laid under
the covers for a long time trying to just
wish it away. Then I felt like I couldn't
breathe under there, so I just sat there
sobbing and It was like ther wasn't any
noise comming out of my mouth but I just
couldn't get a grip whatsoever. My
husband tried to get me to go sdownstairs
but (herees' the emberrassing part) I
locked my legs and my arms in the doorway
and refused to let him push eme out of the
door-like I was a Six year old who didn't
want to leave the birthday party or
something. Then I heard my daughter wake
up downstaires and I started freaking aout
and sayeing that I couldn't go down there
and let her see me like this-over and over
again. I could barely breathe.
Why does this happen to me before I even
wake up? This is just crazy.
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Georgia59
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Posted: 01-07-08 15:31pm
When you start to develop panic disorder-
your panic attacks start to be caused by
the fear of getting a panic attack, a
strange body sensation might remind you of
an attack or trigger that anxiety response
from a memory of a past attack. Perhaps
the change in consciousness while you're
waking up or a funny breathing pattern
while you're sleeping is causing it?
Like I said in the other topic- there is
therapy (CBT) that can help you deal with
panic attacks and eventually make them go
away. I'd seek a therapist who can give it
to you, it's really effective.
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Highanxiety
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Posted: 01-08-08 14:53pm
Georgia you have been very helpful, which
is good beacuse i don't really want to
talk to the people I know about this
because I have been hiding how really
crazy I feel from people for a long time
and I feel ike I'm out of control and I
feel so hopeless and lost and i jsut don't
know what I'm going to do. I am not
suicideal or anything, I just dono't want
to live this way and I catch myself
thinking that If I got ina terrible
accident or soemthing happened to me that
would take care of a lot of things. I
don't want to die, I just don't really
care if something happens. I am pretty
sure a lot of people would be better of
eventually.
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