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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What Kind of PA's do you have

panicbear
panicbear
I know this sounds like a strange questions but I have to ask. I have two kindofs PA the ones that seem more physical and than the ones that are like a ton of thoughts all at once. Does this happen to anyone else??
deleted_user
deleted_user
I have only one PA, and for everyone it sound ridiculous, I am afraid of driving to places that I do not know, I do everything around my house, and all my PA, goes around this STUPID thing, I am afraid of getting lost, even in the airports...
Is there any one else with the same thing? or am I the only one?
deleted_user
deleted_user
I think I know what you mean. Mine start in different ways. Sometimes I know exactly what made me feel so anxious because I was thinking about something stressful or some kind of trigger, but other times I'm not really thinking about anything or even in a good mood and the physical effects will just start- seemingly out of nowhere, which is normally when I mentally panic that there is something physically wrong with me.
Is that similar to what happens to you?
It's like dealing with two different things, but they're the same problem.
deleted_user
deleted_user
i have gotten somewhat better. i don't have full blown attacks in a while, but i still fear them. i have more what i call "pre-panic" where i'll sort of get a bad feeling..like something happens that is out of the ordinary...then that turns into some mild effects like palpatations...and that turns into paranoia and more physical effects. so it's like a domino effect.

i guess maybe it's a different "kind" of attack in that i don't go berserk like i used to...not recently anyway.
deleted_user
deleted_user
I have had years to multiply my array of attacks. Yes, a palethera...did iI spell that right? ha. I have the just doing my chores, busy at work ones where I can scrub a toilet, listen to the radio, AND worry about at least a dozen things as once. Multitasking at it's best. Then there's the grocerystore/bank ones. The one where I start feeling out of body , but paranoid that everyone's staring at me ones. Those are fun! "Yah, I think I'll just leave my cart of groceries in aisle 6 and go to my car!" Ooooh! There's the driving ones...heart starts pumping, seeing sperm-like things before my eyes, I think I'm being suffocated by God knows what...Gotta zoom thru that orange light like I'm in the Indianapolis 500 cuz stopping could be ....I dunno..something! I had a bad attack years ago in a left hand lane in a intersection. I avoided most leftes (yes I did) for along time. Going mostly rights gives new meaning to taking the long way home...but does require skill! ha. Has anyone drove their dog around for peace of mind? Like they could take over the wheel! I have had panic attacks where I was so consumed by adrenalin, I thought my brain was gonna just shut down...period. And I'd be waking up in a straigh jacket somewhere. Those good ole days of yore! I've thought I had a brain tumor, a heart attack, uhm...u name it. But I'm still here. No straight jacket, brain still in tact. I take antidepressants of course. Helps with the seratonin I was getting naturally that kept me as nervious a chichiuaua in a thunderstorm!