
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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Is anyone else like this. Try to leave town and you get to the town line and panic starts. So I have to turn around and go home. I can do it with ativan but can't drive with it cause it numbs me out. So a friend has to bring me. Wish this would go away.

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I'm the same way. I can't go past my exit for my house (which also means I can't go home!). I was on Ativan (Dr. changed it to Xanax) and it helped greatly! Recently, I started Lexapro and I am "venturing" out of the house. It will get better!
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