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Member Advice on Panic Attacks

Member Advice on Panic Attacks

I've always considered myself to be a fairly laid back contented soul, fully appreciative of what I've got in life and not in any way prone to anxiety , stress or the like. So quite honestly panic / anxiety attacks were the last thing I'd ever have expected to have direct personal experience ... Read review

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Panic attacks - don't suffer in silence

Advantages: Learning to live a calmer life
Disadvantages: Much misunderstood, bewildering at times, loss of control

I've always considered myself to be a fairly laid back contented soul, fully appreciative of what I've got in life and not in any way prone to anxiety , stress or the like.

So quite honestly panic / anxiety attacks were the last thing I'd ever have expected to have direct personal experience of. But back in December 1999, a relatively innocuous bump on the head set in motion a chain of events that resulted in months of prolonged anguish, ...
...somehow regain control.

I appreciate that there are a multitude of possible triggers and causes for these attacks and there's certainly no magical cure-all for dealing with them, but it's really important to me to tell my story, and if in some small way it can be useful to anyone out there that would really mean an awful lot to me.

== How they started ==

One cold December morning, I was in the bathroom ... more

paulwilsontastic 14.01.2009 (22.01.2009)
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Terror Strikes

Advantages: None
Disadvantages: It can take over your life

*THE START* I had my first panic attack on Mothers Day 1998. I had a sudden pain in my chest which to be honest scared the life out of me, I went white as a sheet and was having cold sweats, I honestly thought I was having a heart attack. I couldn't breath properly, I felt sick, I thought I was about to die. My mother in law calmed me down and the symptoms gradually subsided except for the chest pain which stayed for a few days. She reckoned it ...
...muscle or trapped nerve. My Daughter was 6 months old and I had been through hell and back with her….4 days of induction then a 6 hour push….as soon as she arrived home she started with colic and cried continually from 4pm until 4am for four months. She settled down after this but had got into a bad sleeping routine. She would not go to bed and to get her asleep I had to lie on the bed and stroke her face through the cot bars for hours. I got in ...

Pink-Ice-Queen 15.02.2007 · Read full review
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The Person That Can Beat it has to be Yourself.

Advantages: none
Disadvantages: it can ruin your life if you let it

My Experience of Panic Attacks. ---------------------------------------- The Beginning of the Problem. ---------------------------------------- I decided to write about my experiences with panic attacks in an attempt to help anybody else that has them. I am sure if you have had them you will have different views and I will be glad if you leave a comment about them. For myself it all began when I was about 18 and was coming home from a night ...
...and was with a few friends, I was just walking when it just hit me with a wallop. The ground under my feet seemed like it was moving and my heart was beating like it was about to burst out from my shirt. I grabbed on to a friends arm and I was finding it harder to breathe and then the sheer panic set in and with that I felt sick. My eyes couldn’t focus and I really couldn’t understand what was happening to me. After a bit I was able to walk home ...

Greek_Myths 21.02.2005 · Read full review
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Panic? Who me?

Advantages: None
Disadvantages: Frightening and exhausting.

I cannot say whether there will be very much advice in this piece of writing, perhaps there is advice of which I am unaware of. My mind is still a bit cloudy of the events but I felt compelled to write my feelings. If my room 101was empty I would have banished it there. However this is my 101st review so that will suffice. I think I may have had a panic attack about fifteen years ago, the hospital said it was but at the time I had my doubts and ...
...away, I felt quite relaxed when suddenly I became intensely dizzy. I went grey and the room began to spin the next thing I knew I could not breathe. My ex husband was with me at the time and he phoned an ambulance during the wait for the ambulance and while in the ambulance I was fighting for my breath. The hospital kept me in over night after giving me various tests and told me I had experienced a panic attack. I really did not believe I had one, ...

teacherofhooch 01.11.2004 · Read full review
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Panic attacks? help is at hand.

Advantages: None really, but they can be a warning.
Disadvantages: Debilitating, and physically and mentally demanding.

So here I am in the ciao café. You can thank Jill Murphy for this as she suggested I look in here. I didn’t originally come in here to write about this subject, but as a counsellor, and as someone who has suffered panic attacks, and although very rarely , still does. I thought I could make quite a good contribution to this subject. After I have told you what they are, I will try to give you some suggestions on how to stop them or to cope better with ...
...and in any place. I never ever thought I would experience them. They are the bodies physical manifestation to mental issues. My first one happened some time after my first marriage break up. A serious break up that left me with no confidence, very depressed, and with low self-esteem. Other things were happening as well but we wont go into them now. Lets just say I felt really down. At the time I was a cab driver. I had picked up four passengers, ...

milleniumzeus 06.10.2003 (04.03.2004) · Read full review
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Don't panic!!!

Advantages: You are not alone!!
Disadvantages: Can dis-rupt your life, Nasty, Horrible feeling like you are going to die

The doctors never told me that I suffer from panic attacks but me and my friend are convinced this is what I suffer from occasionally. ***MY FIRST EXPERIENCE*** I was staying at my boyfriend's and I woke up at 3am, and I could feel my heart beating very fast and I also felt sick. My hands/fingers were really tingly and felt itchy! I managed to get out of bed and went to the bathroom, where I came over very hot and sweaty, I can describe the feeling, ...
...was doing over-time and I honestly thought I was going to die! I was physically sick and this last for about 15-20mins. ***MY 2ND EXPERIENCE*** I had got up out of bed and had eaten breakfast and done everything like normal and when I was in the middle of drying my hair I felt my heart racing again and my fingers/hands were tingly again. I thought to myself . . 'Oh No, Not again'. I came over very hot and sweaty again and it was harder to breathe. ...

kiss_me2070 05.11.2008 · Read full review
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