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...
Does anyone else experience leg weakness and falling down when your anxiety is higher? No dizziness, just my legs buckle under me. I fall at least once a week, sometimes several nights in a row. I also have an auto-immune condition, but since my strength is good some of the time, the doc doesn't think it's related to that. So it's up to my psych and therapist to find the cause. My t. says it could be body memories. One constant seems to be it happens when I'm tired, in the evenings or after a tiring morning/afternoon.
For me personally I think it is related to the fight/ flight/faint part of me. If someone jumps out at me and I get scared I fall down, so I think it's just my body becoming afraid of whatever it is I am anxious about.
Or there is something wrong with me. Either way. (:
Don't go by me though, I'm no doctor. I'm just taking a guess.