Struggling with panic attack disorder
Hello everyone,i wasnt sure if opening this subject would be a right decision,but i felt the need to get rid of a burden in my soul and see if anyone else is facing the same problem like me...
This kind of a problem is like a torture for the one he/she faces it...is there anyone else who faces the same problem?I d like to share thoughts and experiences and if its possible to help each other....
thanks
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The important thing to remember is that they do not cause any harm. You will not die, even if you feel like you will.
Once you know you get them, then you should learn the triggers and either avoid them or learn how to deal with them.
Practice meditation and yogic breathing. Being able to control your breathing is the key to getting through a panic attack.
I had a really big Panic Attack when I was 42, it's what's known as a STORM. It hit without warning. I was sitting down. I stood up, and suddenly, I felt dizzy, my heart started beating waaaay too fast, and everything started going numb or dead. Your vision goes gray like a thick cloud, you can't breathe, your hearing starts to go out, all your limbs start going to sleep.. Pretty much, all your senses and everything starts going numb or dead, and you feel like this is it, it's over... which makes you really panic, if it wasn't panic already.
They told me at the hospital, I had a virus that attacked my thyroid and put my heartbeat into overdrive, which mimicked a heart attack-like situation. I had to go through 6 months or more of prescriptions and blood tests every two weeks. It left some lingering health issues with me that I had to deal with, and still do.
Just be careful. Be sure to check all angles out.. veins, head, heart, lungs, and so on. It may just be anxiety, but then again, it could be other issues bringing about the anxiety-like tensions.
I suffer from C.O.P.D and sometimes without rhyme or reason my breathing is very laboured so I get a panic attack which of course is double trouble.
I have been taught breathing exercises to control this and hey it works. So breathing your way out of it is important, slowly does it.
However I knew my problem and as robrt says get checked out for maybe underlying problem
Welcome here and good luck
Back to my story,i ve been taking some medicine for few years and i was really in a much better situation..but silly me..i did the big mistake to stop taking my medicine coz i thought from a point and after was a placebo...and thought that wasnt doing any good to me...after i stopped taking the medicine for the first few months i was ok...but now i see the difference to the worse..so i guess i have to go again to my doctor and start again...
You were okay for the first few months when you stopped taking your meds because there was a buildup of it in your system.
Now that you have stopped taking meds you have lost the buildup and the resistance to panic attacks.
I recommend that you go back to the doctor and tell him what you did instead of just taking meds again.
Your doctor might want to try a different medication.
I think I know why my panic attacks stopped but why I feel mine stopped would be of no benefit to you.
I so hope things get better for you as they did me