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 everybody,
This is my first post in a while. I'm a 25 year old guy who works and goes to school on the side. I'm posting because my anxiety has gotten steadily worse over the years, and now it's at the point where it is interfering a lot with my work, school, and relationships. My life is a wreck right now and I'm just getting by day to day.
I'm just on edge all the time about nothing and I can't calm down. I get panic attacks very often, and they're really intense, and just drain me. I get night terrors often also, I forget things all the time because I'm so high strung. I'm a sweaty frazzled mess all the time yet it's not like I live in a war zone or anything so what gives??
My doctor has given me a number of medications like Klonopin, Xanax, Zoloft, etc, but none of those did anything. I had a sleep study done for the night terrors but they didn't find anything wrong with me. I went to therapy for several months but made absolutely no progress during that time at all, actually it continued to get worse during that time.
So after several months of no results I stopped going because I couldn't afford to keep paying for a service that was literally doing me no good. I cut caffeine out of my diet completely also. I've been eating healthy and exercising regularly. I've tried meditation and deep breathing technique but during a panic attack or night terror nothing can calm me down.
So my question is: What do I do? I can't stand it. I'm frustrated that I've done everything my doctor and therapist have said to do yet still I get worse. My quality of life has really deteriorated. What do I have to do to make this stop, or at least get it down to a bearable level?
Thanks.
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This is my first post in a while. I'm a 25 year old guy who works and goes to school on the side. I'm posting because my anxiety has gotten steadily worse over the years, and now it's at the point where it is interfering a lot with my work, school, and relationships. My life is a wreck right now and I'm just getting by day to day.
I'm just on edge all the time about nothing and I can't calm down. I get panic attacks very often, and they're really intense, and just drain me. I get night terrors often also, I forget things all the time because I'm so high strung. I'm a sweaty frazzled mess all the time yet it's not like I live in a war zone or anything so what gives??
My doctor has given me a number of medications like Klonopin, Xanax, Zoloft, etc, but none of those did anything. I had a sleep study done for the night terrors but they didn't find anything wrong with me. I went to therapy for several months but made absolutely no progress during that time at all, actually it continued to get worse during that time.
So after several months of no results I stopped going because I couldn't afford to keep paying for a service that was literally doing me no good. I cut caffeine out of my diet completely also. I've been eating healthy and exercising regularly. I've tried meditation and deep breathing technique but during a panic attack or night terror nothing can calm me down.
So my question is: What do I do? I can't stand it. I'm frustrated that I've done everything my doctor and therapist have said to do yet still I get worse. My quality of life has really deteriorated. What do I have to do to make this stop, or at least get it down to a bearable level?
Thanks.
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JustWantNormal, I have tried Ambien and Lunesta for sleep at separate times. Neither of them did anything. I also tried Prozac and celexa and same results. However I have not tried the medicine that ebeth mentioned, Paxil. So I can talk about that with my doctor when I see him in 2 weeks.
I just hope I can make it till then. Every day is such a challenge, especially with school finals starting next week for me and I'm putting in a lot of hours at work. It's just miserable.
I also take buspar and celexa with xanax as needed.
Now that my finals are done, I hope my symptoms will be less severe, although they're still pretty bad right now. The night terrors especially just mess me up so much.
I'm also having trouble building enough confidence to talk with a therapist about these problems. That's one of the issues I had with my last one was that I couldn't effectively communicate how debilitating these attacks are without seeming too emotional or going overboard so I would overcompensate for that, and say they weren't too bad.
I have this issue because my dad drilled into my head when I was a kid that if a guy has any mental issues then he is weak and a coward. so obviously now as an adult I know that's wrong but I still can't completely get out of that mindset because that's what I grew up on. I try to get it out of my head but its always in the back of my mind when I talk to people about these problems so I tend to play down how bad and terrible they are so I don't sound like a baby.