Anxiety Support Group

Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...

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Rruussnn
Rruussnn

I had a panic episode this week the likes of which I have not felt for years. It felt like square one again, completely helpless, although this time I have ways to try to manage and reduce it. It has passed, but I feel sort of traumatized having experienced it and I just feel the need to put this out in words. It was truly awful. I wish I had someone to talk to while in it so I am not so isolated with it. I did tell some people about it, but not the depths of it. I know I am not the only person in the world who experiences such things. Anyway, the sun is out and it is time to get outside.

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Take a walk and relax!

It takes time to recover the complete balance after having an episode.

Here's to you writing it out and sorting out everything.
arfie
arfie
nope, you are far from the only one. my panic attacks have grown more rare, but that helpless debilitation remains a defining trait of an episode. is it good news that i no longer feel knocked back to square one with another spin? it's gotten MUCH easier to remember to breathe my way through them. enough so that i'm the only one who notices the episode any more.

and then i am ever quicker to note if it's a good day to go for a walk. angels whisper to those who walk. i listen carefully.
tcl18
tcl18
Same here. Thought I was past it, but some triggers, like illness bring it back full force. Fir me it’s trying to remember all the old coping mechanism that worked in the past and getting back to the habits that keep me balanced that we’re detailed by illness - eating good healthy for, exercise daily and sleep.
Rruussnn
Rruussnn
I didn't have any coping mechanisms before. No therapist taught me any other than talking it out and I figured that more anxiety means increasing the dose of the meds. But now I do have strategies to surf with it and I think that kept me from being completely swallowed up in the panic. But now I am bewildered and exhausted. But hopefully on the mend.
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