Usually just sit outside with the neighbors and pass out halloween candy. I don't know if I will this year, though. I was in Kroger the other day and noticed a small bag of choclate candy was over $6.
It can cause or exacerbate symptoms. My panic attacks were not caused by any type of drug use. Plus, I have no paranoia associated with the panic. Paranoia is a psychotic disorder; panic is a physiological one.
The alcohol, being a depressant, used to help with the panic attacks, but was detrimental in other ways. That's why I quit. And I quit smoking cigarettes, too, because I never smoked unless I was drinking, anyway, and because it's bad for your health.
It's hard to pinpoint the origin of panic in my case, but I think it has to do with a culmination of events in my life. An abusive alcoholic father, having a baby at a very young age, going through other traumatic events.
And, I also got struck indirectly by lightning when I was 14 and it was shortly after that that the panic attacks started. I didn't even think about it then, but not long ago I did some research and they say people who that has happened to often develop panic disorder.
But ...it's important for people to understand that people with panic disorder are not "abnormal" and we aren't, necessarily, "panicky people;" in fact, will go out of our way to NOT panic in a situation, because the physical and mental stress of it is quite taxing, to say the least, so you'll do whatever you can to avoid that type of stress.
I haven't had a panic attack since I quit drinking and smoking because they were definitely contributing factors, but I still have a certain level of anxiety, though not on an everyday basis. Now, I'm enerting the wild, wacky, wonderful world of perimenopause, so fluctuating hormones is the likely cause for any anxiety I may have.
Panic induced by paranoia, whether it's drug-related or not, is an entirely different matter, however. But if there ever was an effective argument against the use of drugs, that would have to be it. I wouldn't wish panic attacks on my worst enemy.
One would have to question the mindset of a person who is so desperate for attention he'll bait people into arguments by posting nonsensical, noncontextual rantings and then sit back and think they're funny when people respond to them.
What I'm sensing here is you're making a strong plea to be ignored.
I like your posts, Susie. In fact, I resonded to the one you asked the other day about drinking and smoking and asked you a question, too, but you never responded to it.
I spend too much time here as it is, trying to make rapid-fire responses to the ongoing posts at the top of the page, and that doesn't even begin to scrape the surface of all of the other "hidden" discussions.
And I type 120 wpm and work with words every single day, and even at that can barely keep up with what's going on here.
I don't really stop to think about whether I'm being ignored or not, bu if you only post sporadically, you're not going to get as many responses, obviously, as you would if you post all the time.
You have proven nothing. You could have said that no matter who responded, or no matter how they responded. You think you're such a mental manipulator and master of mind control. LOL. Think again.
There's nothing humorous about the way in which you try to bait people into an argument because you do it in such a predictable and boring manner. Not only that, half the time you don't even make any contextual sense. What's so funny about that?
Lori, I'm the same way. I don't care about flowers and chocolates and all of that. Not that they're not nice gestures and tokens of affection, but, to me, a man spending time with me, or him helping me with a certain task that's hard for me to do by myself, or going grocery shopping with me, etc., is what being "romantic" is all about.
Well, you've certainly proven you know the definition of the word "tangent."
What is it you find so hysterically funny, may I ask?
Yes, I'd say you must have misinterpreted it, just like you deliberately misinterpreted and put a spin on the discussion about rednecks...
And speaking of rednecks...
But anyway, there was nothing misleading about the statement I made. I'm not sure what your problem is, but I think you just like "hearing" yourself talk.
I think before you go off on one of your tangents you should take a chill pill and re-read what I had written. It said the deaths were smoking-RELATED; it did not state what percentages also included other causes.
And that wasn't the point of my argument in the first place.
I still don't know what men find so difficult to understand. But no one will say. I think they understand us perfectly; but to admit that means they'd have to take responsibility and be accountable for their actions.
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LOL..I hadn't smoked any of that stuff since I was in my 20s...I can't stand being around it. In fact, I hated the stench of it even when I did smoke it. Yes, "just cigarettes."
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RE: Trick-Or-Treat
Usually just sit outside with the neighbors and pass out halloween candy. I don't know if I will this year, though. I was in Kroger the other day and noticed a small bag of choclate candy was over $6.To hell with that; I'll pass out carrots instead.