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Late night panic attack fear.

michiev
michiev
Last week was stressful and emotional for me and I have this habit of letting emotions and stuff build up until I just break down, this has happened before.. I know it's a problem but i don't talk to my friends, family, I don't blog about my issues, i don't do anything but let it sit and get worse and I don't know why. you'd think i'd learn after the 10th time of this happening.. Anyway last night was the culmination of a bunch of stress, guilt, anxiety, worry and much more.. I haven't been eating well, my dad was sent back to the hospital with an infection and a high fever, my mom is stressed, i'm constantly fighting with my best friend, I'm in love with the same said best friend, I'm having issues coming to terms with the fact that he will never love me, I have OCD issues concerning food poisoning and there was a recall on lettuce yesterday in the news, I freaked. And last night i was going through old poetry that reminded me of bad things and I made a mistake, I texted the girl who emotionally abused me for two years.. I also almost texted the guy that I used to really really like and that I let down, I felt so much guilt and it all became too much. I got sick.

I don't want that to happen again tonight :/
deleted_user
deleted_user
mischiev,

I am sorry. Too much came on too fast. A lot of stress.
Just friends along with once again our food supply is tainted.

I don't know this guy may come around you never know. As far as lettuce goes I stick with plain old iceberg. I mean how can you get salmonella on produce? Still a mystery to me.

I hope that your Dad gets to feeling better soon. Your Mom, I feel bad for her and I can tell you are worried too. I am so sorry that you are going through so much.

I hope that you do have a good night and try to take care.
stillearning57
stillearning57
Have you ever considered seeing a counselor to work on learning to express your emotions as you go along instead of collecting them until they blow? Maybe you can shop for a good one who also knows about OCD. I think it would help. Take care.
deleted_user
deleted_user
So good to hear that I"m not the only one that sits at night and stews about all these kinds of things. I have the same issues with OCD and food poisoning too, I have just started a group for emetophobia, which is a fear of vomiting. If that's what you're worried about with the food poisoning, after a lot of psychiatric help I managed to narrow my fear of food poisoning down to that :P

I've found night time panic is always the worst because I feel so isolated and then try to reach out to the wrong people ( like you were saying too) I've found it helps to come on places like this and to also have a list of people that I can really ring at anytime of the day or night, this sounds like a big ask but actually I've been amazed at how many people have offered to do this for me. ( I always thought they were just saying it to be nice until I actually rang a few and realized that they meant it ). ONce I've rung a few people Iv'e found I don't actually need to ring them, just knowing that they're there and available if I ring them helps me settle myself.

To settle myself I use a progressive Muscle relaxation, or even just listening to calming music helps me, and a nice herbal tea.

really hope this helps and big hugs to you for the next time you're feeling anxious and stressed, remember you're not the only one feeling like that, at that moment there will be countless other people in the world feeling the same.