Panic Attacks Support Group
A panic attack is a period of intense fear or discomfort, typically with an abrupt onset and usually lasting no more than thirty minutes. Symptoms include trembling, shortness of breath, heart palpitations, sweating, nausea, dizziness, hyperventilation, and sensations of choking or smothering. Panic attacks can be very sudden, appear to be unprovoked, and are often...
I have talked to one trained psychiatrist because I was actually told to see one after a suicide attempt. I have alot of issues, but I can't see how they all add up to my panic attacks.
I get panic attacks in stores like walmart, even small stores like the little grocery store up the road. I have them when there is a family dinner and too many people are in the same room as me. I feel like I can hear them all talking, I feel like I am losing my mind. My heart feels like it will beat out of my chest.
I ALWAYS get them in these situations. I can make them stop by, in a store going to an isle with no people and standing there for 10-15 mins, or when I am at home or a family members home I will go to my room or their bathroom to escape.
My family thinks I WANT something to be wrong in my life, because of everything I have been through. I am a stranger to them because I didn't see them for years and months at a time. So I get the "Oh stop that, you over react to everything" or "why must you always make a scene about things and act like something is wrong with you."
I once was told because I wasn't dying of something my problems were small and I needed to just get OVER IT.
I had a not so great psychiatrist, she never helped and told me that I just needed to breath. Sometimes when I breath I find people are staring at me more and it causes them to get worse... I actually start feeling helpless and start praying for God to take me away in my head.
(I needed to vent)
I get panic attacks in stores like walmart, even small stores like the little grocery store up the road. I have them when there is a family dinner and too many people are in the same room as me. I feel like I can hear them all talking, I feel like I am losing my mind. My heart feels like it will beat out of my chest.
I ALWAYS get them in these situations. I can make them stop by, in a store going to an isle with no people and standing there for 10-15 mins, or when I am at home or a family members home I will go to my room or their bathroom to escape.
My family thinks I WANT something to be wrong in my life, because of everything I have been through. I am a stranger to them because I didn't see them for years and months at a time. So I get the "Oh stop that, you over react to everything" or "why must you always make a scene about things and act like something is wrong with you."
I once was told because I wasn't dying of something my problems were small and I needed to just get OVER IT.
I had a not so great psychiatrist, she never helped and told me that I just needed to breath. Sometimes when I breath I find people are staring at me more and it causes them to get worse... I actually start feeling helpless and start praying for God to take me away in my head.
(I needed to vent)
i feel you on the shopping center/crowd anxiety.i avoid wal mart and similar places like they are radioactive. heck i can't last more than 10-15 inutes total in one of those places.
im sorry your family isnt more proactively supportive.. its hard to make it through anxiety/depression/ or anything else without a solid support network. luvkily this site seems to fill that role for a lot of people rather well. but i feel you.. if i hear " its all in your head" or "get over it" one more time i may well pop a cap into something inanimate.
trust me on one thing though... coming here... whether you just read, or if you actively write to people as well.. it helps.... we people with anxiety depression.. etc... we gotta stick together because noone that doesnt suffer from it can understand, no mattter how much they want to.
good luck! and much affection!
My new therapist gave me a test for PTSD, and I scored over 90%, so there are triggers in public places that I'm going through therapy to deal with. Right now, because the anxiety and panic is so bad, I'm on meds as well.
I hope you know you are not alone. Hang in there.
I thank you for sharing also, I do appreciate when someone gives me some insight.
Thank God I have found a physciatrist that is awesome and has helped me find medications that help and I have found a therapist that not only is teaching me behaviors to deal with the attacks, but she also has suffered from them herself so she totally gets it.
This site helps me because if there is one piece of advice that I can give or get, then it makes me feel like I am serving a cause.
I have suffered for a long time with panic attacks and I would love to help you through this if I can.