If you have had an Experience with Panic Attacks, Anxiety Or Stress-Tell Me Your Story.I would love to hear how others have been successfully dealing with there struggles. Even if things haven't gone exactly the way you hoped I would still like to here about it.(good or bad)Leave your story as a comment below this post. If you have overcome your anxiety disorder and would like to share the techniques or medications that helped you to overcome your anxiety,stress or panic attacks Please feel free to leave that information below as well. (it may help someone else to find the proper treatment).
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You can think of it like a tripwire. The more stressed you are, the more anxiety you experience from day-to-day and so the tighter the tripwire becomes. A good analogy is that of a car alarm. With increased stress or anxiety levels, the alarm becomes too sensitive. Then it will go off if the wind rocks the car, or someone brushes it as they walk by.
ReplyDeleteTo stop panic attacks, we need to ‘slacken the tripwire’ or turn down the sensitivity on the car alarm.
The first panic attack I ever had was in a campground in California. It was the summer before sixth grade and my parents buckled my brother and me into the back of our white volvo station wagon for a six week trip across the country.
ReplyDeleteMy brother and I slept head to toe in tiny brown tent which leaked at the seams and smelled like it. The night of my first panic attach I crawled into my sleeping bag and pulled out my flashlight and had this thought: if I don't think about my breathing, it will stop. The thought came from nowhere and was suddenly, everything.
I started to cry, gasping and shaking, suddenly terribly sure that I if I fell asleep I would die. My brother tried to comfort me. My parents yelled at us from across the campsite to be quiet and go to sleep. And so I cried myself to sleep, to death.
You already know how this ends. Or rather, what this begins. I woke up the next morning, my brain having miraculously taken over for my labored efforts and steered me safely through the night. If only that one night was enough to help me let go of the obsessional fear (which, now that I think about it, was likely more OCD-related than anxiety/panic). If only I didn't have spend the next four years obsessing about my breathing each night before bed.
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How do we come to terms with brains and bodies and nervous systems that are, at truly significant moments, entirely out of touch with reality? I used to obsess about the possibility that if something really happened -- when that long-obsessed-over heart attack/stroke/asthma attack finally came for me -- that I would have trained myself to well to ignore these feelings of impending doom that I would ignore the real thing.
Of course, the reality is that I haven't yet trained myself to ignore those feelings. Nor has the heart attack come for me. Yet.
I had my first panic attack in my 20s, about 20 or so years ago, and they had more or less faded away by the time I was 30. But then they came back a couple of years ago, completely out of the blue. I am in Christchurch New Zealand where we recently had a large earthquake and have since had over 600 aftershocks (in face today is the first day without one) and I read a lot of people have been suffering from related anxiety. I however, have taken it all in stride. Perhaps that is an advantage of already being familiar with anxiety?
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The night of my first panic attach I crawled into my sleeping bag and pulled out my flashlight and had this thought: if I don't think about my breathing, it will stop. The thought came from nowhere and was suddenly, everything.
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I had panic attacks and anxiety so bad that I thought it was going to kill me. I felt like I couldn't get enough oxygen, my heart felt like it was beating too fast. My mouth was always dry and I could not cope with daily tasks. There were so many more symptoms that you are all aware of. I lost 15 pounds during Christmas. That was 4 years ago and I am free of anxiety now. I did it without drugs and I believe anyone else can do it too if they want to badly enough. I read a lot of books, talked to pastors, a psychologist, researched the web, took certain natural supplements and engaged in strenuous cardio exercise. It worked!
ReplyDeleteI will admit that there has been 2 or 3 times these last few years that I could feel some symptoms coming on but I quickly put them down and have suffered no anxiety problems at all. I wrote about it in detail on my blog at
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Thank you for taking the time to sharing your story. I am glad that I did read it. As soon as I get my story posted I promise to let you know. :) take care. panic attack
ReplyDeleteHi I used to excessively worry and torture myself but now I have generally no fear at all. I am not afraid of dying, of being shot, of terrible things happening, etc.
ReplyDeleteI am simply not afraid.
I believe that most of this comes down to self-confidence as well as changing the way you think about things. Our emotions stem from our thoughts, you can bring yourself into a state of extreme fear or extreme confidence depending on the thoughts you hold in your mind.
For example, try this, smile. Just fake smile, hold that smile for 5 minutes and see if you cannot help but feel happier. The truth is its almost impossible for a person to not start feeling better while smiling - even if its faked.
Learning to control and change your thoughts, and holding positive thoughts instead of negative ones is the key to overcoming this anxiety problem.
You can read my blog at http://helpwithpanicattacksblog.blogspot.com/
I think what you say in your comment is very true. Smiling and also laughing can help a lot. thanks for the visit and I'll definitely visit your blog as well.
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DeleteI have panic attacks after riding in a car for longer than 20 minutes. If I do, I start to feel real sick, my muscles tense, and I get chest pains...it feels like I'm going to die! I am so embarrassed when I have to explain to people why I can't take a road trip with my friends or even take the bus to go places. Because I hate feeling so restricted, I am trying the ways I learned from http://onlineceucredit.com/edu/social-work-ceus-tpa to allow me to feel more comfortable in a car and hopefully join my friends on one of their road trip adventures.
ReplyDeleteHi Melanie..I have almost the exact same problem. I wish there was an easy way to get over it because it really sucks but I'm sure that you will if you stay strong and keep trying and I'll do the same. Thanks for the comment and I'm sorry that i didn't reply sooner.
DeleteThank you to everyone who has taken time to visit the blog. i haven't posted anything in quite some time but hope to start posting again very shortly. If anyone would like to post as a guest please feel free to inquire.
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