How Did Your Anxiety/panic Start? Posted: 08-30-05 13:12pm
Mine>:
i was trapped on the 32nd floor of an
apartment block during the biggest
earthquake in 5 years in taiwan. The
whole thing shook for over a minute. I
was petrified.. I ran around the
building, looked down the hall, pieces of
plaster were falling off the walls, there
was no-one around (everyone was at work)..
I pysically shook for over an hour
afterwards. Then 5 days later I had a
huge panic attack followed by having to go
to the emergency room at 3 in the morning
convinced I was having a heart attack.
Nothing. I was all clear.
Two months later I was walking with my
friends wife when suddenly I heard
screeching.. I turned around and saw a
blur just shoot past me eye and smash into
his wife, she went flying and had a
motorbike of drunk drivers land on top of
her..
Then I was in london for the terrorist
attacks and had to take the underground
the next day
then I heard a horrific attack on a taxi
driver when I was sleeping.
All this together and the doc diagnosed me
with ptsd and anxiety.. I have had
mulitple panic attacks. I also have an
inner ear disease and depression so its
not a pretty sight.
I am 28 and love photography so thats my
only outlet.
What a messed up life it can be.. But
things will be better..
At the moment its just chest pains,
depressions, feeling of imminent danger or
threat, I see accidents happen in my mind
but they never really happen in life,
dizziness, get moody, dont want to talk..
Etc..Etc
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truckstophero
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 28 Jul 2005 Posts: 84 Location: alabama
Posted: 08-31-05 13:57pm
No-one?
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australian
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 2 Location: brisbane, australia
Posted: 09-06-05 06:29am
Mine,
started a few years ago after two life
threatening visits to the hospital within
two months of each other(allergies), not
to mention a stupid doctor who convinced
me I had cancer with no proof.
Anyway I have been on zoloft, only half a
tablet a day, the dr's think it had a
placebo effect on me. But I haven't taken
any med's for quite sometime. What really
seemed to work was hypnotherapy, since my
first session I haven't had a crippling
attack, and I used to have really bad
attacks, so bad I was at the emergency
every night. I get the standard symptoms
the heavyness of breathe, dizziness, light
headed, chest pains, feeling of thread and
the worst the unbearable fear, fear of
what, yes dying, but "of" what? God only
knows. The funny thing was before the
attacks I would never go to the dr's for
anything, broken ribs, cuts, burns what
ever, but the panic attacks changed all
that.
For the last year I have been pretty good,
but this last week I have stumbled only a
little, i'm having trouble breathing,
standard stuff but try telling my brain!!!
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truckstophero
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 28 Jul 2005 Posts: 84 Location: alabama
Posted: 09-06-05 10:29am
Yeah thats the stupid part. 99% of the
times I know its nothing serious and I
isnt anything bad but my brain tells me
its cancer, or tumour, or a stroke or
something. Thats the hardest part of
all.. Trying to tell yourself you are
ok., its normal... Grrr
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bicca
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 16 Location: austin, tx
Posted: 09-26-05 23:20pm
When I was 8 my best friend got hit by a
car right infront of me, and I know I
could have stopped her if I had moved more
quickly.
I can't remember anything before junior
high school.I know this happened though.
When I was 11 I started cutting.
A boy called me ugly when I was 12 and I
stopped eating for a few years.
I was diagnosed with scoliosis not long
after and forced to wear a backbrace at
night and felt absolutely isolated. I
miss tightening it until the plastic
couldn't go anymore because I dropped so
many inches during that period.
When I was 14 we adopted my younger sister
who verbally abuses me and knocked me out
of the attention of my parents eyes.
When I was 16 I had spinal fusion
surgery.
Then I became addicted to various hardcore
stimulants.
When I was 17 I had an abortion that I
promised myself for years I would never
have. I don't regret it though.
My boyfriend and I broke up on my 18th
birthday, after a year and a half of being
exclusive and known for our love.
I also saw a man's body leaning out the
window of his car that had been slammed
against a cement freeway wall.
Things are just getting really scary. I'm
hallucinating and forget to breathe all
the time. Part of me wants to be left for
dead.
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annaf2001
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 03 Oct 2005 Posts: 41 Location: Oklahoma
Posted: 10-03-05 16:05pm
Bicca pm me if you need someone to talk
to.
Mine started the night my grandmother
died. I had been with her everyday at
the hospital for 3 months before she died.
I took care of her and then I didn't get
to say I love you for the last time before
she died. That night I had decided to go
back to my dorm room and later that night
I got a call that I need to come to say
goodbye. I didn't make it in time.
There she was lying there lifeless. I
broke into hives and hyperventilated.
That was 4 years ago this january.
Then a year ago my husband was shipped off
to the war. Several times that year I
had panic attacks. The worst one was
when I came to pick him up in april. I
thought that I was going to die. It
lasted the longest. He had told me he
didn't love me anymore.
I have not had one since but I feel
anxiety on a daily basis. I feel like
crying all of a sudden with no warning but
at other times I am fine and feel happy.
Does anyone else feel like this?
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bicca
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 16 Location: austin, tx
Posted: 10-03-05 20:01pm
Yeah. That roller coaster effect.
I'm just trying to remember that we live
once, and move on. People are stronger
than they think.
