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 am in a work situation that is quickly deteriorating. I was in a meeting last week where a client and my boss were discussing doing something that I don't consider ethical.
When I was in the meeting, right at the time this unethical situation was brought up, I felt shortness of breath, like someone was pushing down on my chest and my heartbeat was racing. Fortunately, my husband called me right at that moment and by excusing myself, leaving the room and talking to him a bit I was able to calm down.
I informed my boss that I won't involve myself in that project. I e-mailed him because I work remotely for the most part and he doesn't handle being told something he doesn't want to hear well at all. He freaks out, I think he has anger issues. When he saw this, he messaged me, livid, saying I had promised to do that work, I was letting him down, etc. We never had reached an agreement about the work and I didn't know the details of the project until I attended the meeting. When I got his message, I was in the bank and started to feel the same way as I did in the meeting.
I need to go to my respiratory specialist to get a prescription refill, so I will ask him about tests. However, given that this happened at two moments when I felt a lot of stress due to work, it seems more like a panic attack. Does anyone eslse get them in those sorts of situations?
I am probably going to be fired or put in a postion where I will have to resign, due to refusing to do this unethical work. I imagine he will say my continued employment depends on me doing the project. In a way it is probably a relief if I am going to have panic attacks when I have to deal with him. This situation is the tip of the iceberg. The environment is increaslingly toxic and he has not fulfilled various promises.
When I was in the meeting, right at the time this unethical situation was brought up, I felt shortness of breath, like someone was pushing down on my chest and my heartbeat was racing. Fortunately, my husband called me right at that moment and by excusing myself, leaving the room and talking to him a bit I was able to calm down.
I informed my boss that I won't involve myself in that project. I e-mailed him because I work remotely for the most part and he doesn't handle being told something he doesn't want to hear well at all. He freaks out, I think he has anger issues. When he saw this, he messaged me, livid, saying I had promised to do that work, I was letting him down, etc. We never had reached an agreement about the work and I didn't know the details of the project until I attended the meeting. When I got his message, I was in the bank and started to feel the same way as I did in the meeting.
I need to go to my respiratory specialist to get a prescription refill, so I will ask him about tests. However, given that this happened at two moments when I felt a lot of stress due to work, it seems more like a panic attack. Does anyone eslse get them in those sorts of situations?
I am probably going to be fired or put in a postion where I will have to resign, due to refusing to do this unethical work. I imagine he will say my continued employment depends on me doing the project. In a way it is probably a relief if I am going to have panic attacks when I have to deal with him. This situation is the tip of the iceberg. The environment is increaslingly toxic and he has not fulfilled various promises.
When I went to my respiratory doctor he said it sounded like panic attacks. I had several more when I had to deal with that awful boss. Mydoctor found me to be extremely stressed and taquicardic and was pretty concerned..
In the end I quit the job. I couldn't deal with working for someone like that any more. It was a rough 2 weeks from when I gave notice to when I stopped working - more ambush-type situations with the boss, one of his minions calling me many times to try to convince me to come back, etc. However, now that I am free of that situation I haven't had another attack. I clearly did the right thing for my mental health. And, I have a job interview next week!