Panic Attacks Suck Ass.
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- peiter0
Kiko...i hear yah all the way. damn these things.
- kodap0
spend 2 weeks on the camp.. or in a calm place (beach).
city and stress are friends of panic
- jevad0
sometimes i wish rand was my dad
- ********0
this one time at band camp i got the worst attck ever..
long story though..
- ********0
I am a great dad, if you don't mind adolescent behaviour in a dad
- Visia0
yeah, same here. Used to get them, mostly due to extreme stress.
Now I take Valarian (Not valium, valarian) before I go to bed and enough vitamins to nutritionalize a small nation.
Plus I find regular exercise works and I always take breaks throughout the day.
Mostly, like everyone has said, it's important to not let them perpetuate. Hard thing to do in the middle of one but there's breathing exercises and stuff like that so . . .
All the best.
- slappy0
It must be a design thing,
I feel like my heart misses a beat a few times a day. I also get dizzy and it can last for a day or two.
My doctor has told me that I work too much. I got tested for HIV, cancer, viral infection, lukemia, diabetes, hypoglysemia, heart disease lung cancer and nothing. They even gave me ct scans to see if i had a brain tumor or clot.
then they tested my sinous and inner ears and made me change my monitor to a lcd.
still nothing and when i go riding my mountain bike it feels like the pressure in my head will make my eyes pop out. Frustrating. Sux to always be at 80% health. I feel fine when i drink beer and have sex or both so it could be worse i suppose.
- pascii0
oh man. take it easy guys. no job is worth to suffer that much. i myself had my nerve collapse when i was 23 and fresh in that design thing. since then, i only work 6-10 hrs a day. anything else is insane
- Nac0
i had panic attacks...long ago...best cure....exercise...amazingly enough
- tomkat0
panic attacks..? yeah been there.
I thought.
But the stress of the last 5 months + the end of a relationship threw me back almost 7/8 yrs when I was on antidepressiva and panic attacks where like a regular daily visitor.
Taking it easy now. Better so.
- Kiko0
True Nac, I too have heard that the best thing for these mo fos is excesise
- codfather0
I feel for you dude.
I burnt out about 4 years ago and it all started when I was really stressed out in a meeting and felt some sort of uncontrollable outer body experience. Thought I was ok the next day but then started to have regular panic attacks.
The main fear for me has always been embarrassment and humiliation - the physical reaction for me is profuse sweating - if you have one where you're unable to escape (like the underground) it's hell!
I'm much more confident I'm in control now after having been through it for so long. I would highly recommend reading up on how and why panic attacks occur, a good audio cd is:
http://www.panic-attacks.co.uk/p…
Also reading matter on present moment awareness such as "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle. As others have said in this thread you must not buy into it - acceptance is the key - the feeling is essentially fear - let it come and let it pass through you. Use the force!
- ********0
I second the Eckhart Tolle recommendation
one added benefit of exercise is that it tells your brain that a rapid heartbeat isn't the end of the world
- slats0
whatever you do don't take Paxil... it's a bad, bad drug with horrible withdrawl symptons
- ********0
i get picnic attacks all the time too. i'll be walking past a park or something and i get this overwhelming urge to eat cold sammiches from a paper plate while sitting on an old blanket that has about 10 years of ex-gf jizz stains with my new girlfriend. it's crazy.
- soda0
therapy is a good bet. I had a similar story to Codfather, but it gets better. Just talking to someone about it helps, especially identifying the panic cycle and learning how to stop it, by replacing negative thoughts with positive ones etc.
You basically have been programed to behave a certain way over a period of time and it takes a while to deprogram it.
It can be done, it just takes time and patience.
And support of course.
Good luck lad, feel free to email me if you want to talk more.
- soda0
and that looks like a pretty interesting book codfather, good tip.
- ricstultz0
panic attacks. I get them. Its a mental game. I'm getting better at calming myself when they come on. it hits me in the gut and i feel like I'm going to puke. Usually it happens out of the blue. usually in the morning right away.
Weed helps the problem short term but hurts the problem long term. its better to deal with the attacks without it.
I try to think of a calm place. It always helps to decide if what you are worried about will matter in a few weeks.
I've been talking about it with friends. We've started to refer to the panic as "a bad place". As in "hey man, you in a bad place."
- blaw0
i had no idea these were this prevalent. good luck to the whole lot of you.
- BobaFetus0
used to get them alot
now just occasionally when i 'm super stressed
what Rand has suggested is a great way to deal with them
you have to separate yourself from them and almost observe them
it helped me to remind myself that i had "survived" all the other ones and thus shouldn't be so concerned about the current one
understanding the physiological reasons why its happening will really help you deal with them because you feel more control over them
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(Jul 16 05, 11:25)
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YAY! When I'm about to have one I just remember how I survived the first one, which was the worst by far, and the others. Now they hardly go any further than feeling like I have a ball down my throat that won't let me breathe. But of course that's not happening, it's all in my mind. Fuck anxiety and fuck the mind! :D