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...

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first panic attack

amanday
amanday
I was married to a man for 20 years and the last 3 years of my marriage was hell...abuse....and i think thats went my panic attacks started and the depression..i would throw up shake all over so i went to the dr and he put me on xanax...but i would only take them went i need them and it was only a 1/4 well we went though a nasty divorced ..him telling people he was going to kill me...so i left the state to hide from him we been divorced going on 4 years but i have the fear he's still going to find me and now they are full blowin panic attack i've got to where i can't go out i had to stop workin...now they think i have pmdd which dont help makes it worst but i start lexapro on friday and i just hope it helps.. the fear he will find me..i cant listen to no kind of music,movie ect..that he used to watch it 's just like he still controling me after 4 years and i am new to this treatment never have i been on any AD so that sent my panic though the roof...
deleted_user
deleted_user
Is there a way you can get a new identity after going to the authorities?
deleted_user
deleted_user
omg i am sooooooo sorry. wow. i'm so sorry for what you are going through. I had an abusive ex. He threatened to kill me and would make me watch videos online of animals and people being tortured. He told me how he'd kill me too. Many times. It would be the same way too. It took me at least a year after the break up to finally tell my mother. When we broke up, they were scared he'd come after me and they didn't want to leave me home alone. I had weapons sitting beside my bed and I still have nightmares and i wasn't even MARRIED to him like YOU were. wow. He stalked me and i thought he was going to run me over with his car while I was in the school parking lot. I nearly threw up and raced to the doors. The first time a boy kissed me after him, I was shaking uncontrolably. He found me on myspace, I blocked him. email, I blocked him. IM: blocked him too. THEN he got FACEBOOK and before he even had any friends, he came after me. I documented each time I told him to leave me alone and put everything he ever said to me into a file. I almost got a restraining order.

Hun, you need to lean on your family or friends. You need to tell people around you. Let them know if anything happens to you, he should be the first suspect. That's what I STILL tell people. Keep track of anything he says or does to you and DON'T HESITATE going to the cops. They should be taking domestic violence MUCH more seriously now than they did years ago. I should know. I have a criminal justice degree and completed the academy and that's the stuff they taught us.

PLEASE feel free to ask me for help. I remember what it felt like when mine started 4 years ago and I still have nightmares that he'll come for me. :-(