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'm going through nonstop panic/anxiety recently. It was getting better a month ago until my 15 year old dog passed away. I'm 20 years old, so this dog was my whole life. I cried for a whole month and my neighbor gave me a new puppy because my entire neighborhood loved my dog and she could see how depressed I was. I was feeling better about the new pup, my constant anxiety stopped and it felt good having to get up and mop pee off the floor (sounds silly) and play with him and take care of him. But recently he's been giving me a lot of stress. He would scream his lungs off whenever I went in another room or scream all night. I was left sobbing in bed because I couldn't take it. I wanted my dog back, I just kept thinking about how my last dog wasn't this noisey. Yeah she would cry a long time ago when she was a pup, but she never screamed and growled for attention at 1am in the morning. She was calm and didn't need much training to obey. I give my new puppy a lot of attention and he still screams when I leave or enter the house (he lived on the porch at the time and is now living in the yard. My home is too small for a dog to live in). So here began my stress/anxiety/panic attacks. My stress caused me to be nauseous and fatigued easily (also because of all the work I did because of the puppy). And now I'm going through a ton of anxiety.
Don't get me wrong, I love my new puppy and I haven't lost any interest in taking care of him. There are just times when I still miss my old dog, especially when the puppy misbehaves.
I do think you took the dog in to soon. You didn't give yourself enough time to heal.
But..... The pups there.
Two things to remember. DON'T spoil the dog. A spoiled dog is like a spoiled kid..... a BRAT!
2nd, DON'T compare it to your last dog. This one has his/her own personality. You need to teach and mold the dogs personality to your way of life.
Spending time with it is important and necessary. But it needs to know you can't be with it all the time.
A wild dog, cat or what have you learns quickly to be quiet when its mother is out hunting. If its noisy, its someone else's meal.
Walking away, then turning around and pointing at it and saying, NO. Can be a help. My animals all know, if I make the snake sound,..... WATCH OUT! It can mean a number of things, quiet, be careful and watch for.... whatever.
Your the teacher, mother, friend. Everything will depend in you.
Good luck!
I believe I'm having a hard time because this is my first time raising a dog on my own. My last dog, she was more of a family dog that we all kinda raised. Both my brothers moved out and my mother isn't the biggest dog person.
Again, thank you so much for the advice!