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...
Hi, I hope you all can help me with advice, My husband started to become anxious a few years ago when we would leave house to go on errands. It seems to have permiated every aspect of our life now. If we make plans to go somewhere he can not seem to function and is overwhelmed by racing thoughts,dizzy, sweating, very anxious then the confusion then sets in. We will leave where we are and go home. He tells me his mind fills with what if's. What if somthing happens to car or us. what if somthing goes wrong with house while we are gone. It is now affecting just trips to go get food at store. It is so much worse if we travel to another state or leaving familar areas. I do not drive much because of health issues. He will not go to counciling or seek medicine from his Dr. I am feeling like a prisoner to his panic attacks. Any advice anyone has would be great, I am at a loss as to what to do to help him.
3 weeks ago I started having sudden onset of panic attacks and severe anxiety and couldn’t leave my house. I refused to go on medication and tried various natrual remedies, exercise, breathing, meditation. Nothing seemed to help alleviate me, only helped a little. I new if I didn’t fix whatever was going on with me, it would slowly paralyze me. Finally, a friend of mine suggested Traditional Chinese medicine. OMG! It saved my life! It’s been 3 weeks now since this all happened and only 1 week of taking the herbs and it has calmed my soul, mind and body. I no longer take anything except my herbs and am about 85% to 90% better. I am starting acupuncture next week in hopes to fully recover soon. What is his reason for not wanting to see the doctor or get help? I know I didn’t want to be medicated, so I chose a different route. You should see if he is willing to see a Traditinal Chinese medicine doctor who also specializes in acupuncture and maybe a little therapy to retrain him to be him again. At this point my physical and emotional symptoms are stable. I still fear a little, which I think acupuncture can help me further. The rest is re training yourself that everything will be ok-this May have to be done by seeing an anxiety/panic attack therapist specialist. I did It on my own since i didn’t suffer from it long term.