Would like to know how it feels when you have panic attacks.
I went through about a year of having panic attacks. To me I would feel like I was having a heart attack and I would get real light headed. I actually went to the hospital a few times because of having them. I know my blood pressure shot up real high to. One time because of my blood pressure they actually admitted me to the hospital for one night.
I have had violent doses of anxiety. Don’t know if that’s the same thing or not. My heart starts racing and I get palpitations, then start trembling and cold sweats whilst at the same time trying not to draw attention to yourself. The trouble is people are the main trigger when I feel like that.
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I have had heart racing, spacing thinking and feeling, dizziness, heart racing to the point I thought it was going to come out of my chest, and occasionally I have actually passed out. I now take neurontin to ward off attacks.
I have had panic attacks since I was a kid - they are returning for me.
Panic attacks feel like sheer terror, waves of fear taking over your body/thoughts.
My heart races - i think that I am going to die of heart failure - the fight or flight response takes over - feels like I want to run away.
They are awful! Would never wish them on my enemies - Klonopin helps a bit, but once I get an attack they basically take over
Hard time breathing, hard time thinking, hard time acting, shaking and just freeze up moment. I was raised by a mean one, but after meeting more people I know nothing is wrong with my parents. My father never treated us as bad as he got as a kid with an alcoholic, wife beating father. I had an anxiety problem for a long time into my 20s, I’m still too passive when dealing with aggressives and only use assertiveness to negotiate. But, passive action really lets me get a look at another’s behaviors and really intentions toward me before I need to act. I just look right, blend in, make eye contact, smile and use polite manners and just watch how it all plays out, if it is a personal play.
I was actually OCD in 20s before my nervous & resulting psychosis that never responded to meds in 12 years now. I’m only okay now with all the social torment and paranoid crap because I ditched the OCD. I never gave into the impulses to double check something. I journaled through a very tough 2 weeks and I no longer have any anxiety about what used to make me a nervous wreck…I have a lot of other stuff to worry about now if I let it, but then the bullies win if you worry. So, I just change my behaviors to cope
- avoid the places the wrong people hang out
- gave up working locally when it is just the wrong people, bad employment scams, sexual harassment, hostile work environment, law suit inspiring thankless crap employment/management that doesn’t think customers matter at all – I’m working more on my skills working internships for free & gonna get a job somewhere else in a couple years. I know for a fact the employment is SUPURB if you go a couple hours from this -hit hole. Just cannot afford to live on my own right now and the men are predators trying to force a girl to date to ride her welfare check…
- Don’t buy much as the belongings just own me maintaining stuff, fixing broken stuff, storing it or moving it…
- Do not even go with the flow of the normals
- Ditched the negative relationships and just protect myself, leaving if anything is wrong there. There are a lot of predators in my city and no way to get these guys to go away if you get noticed, just don’t bother socializing with strangers if you live in a place with this going on. Police here ruin victims & eventually try to call her a mental case to discredit someone, over and over their peoples get it is huge hint to stay away from that one. NEVER SAY ANYTHING AND JUST QUIT ATTENDING/RETURNING PHONE CALLS IF ANYONE MISTREATS YOU PUBLICLY OR MAKES THREATS, some retaliate if you speak up. Know you met a predator or aggressor…lots of the older men will act like this now if they have any money. Sometimes, you have to limit time with your own family members if they give you the creepys…Creeps marry good peeps.
- Stay street wise to all the scams, excuse yourself quietly.
- I don’t even answer anything that doesn’t sound normal. I had 10 people surround me and threaten me about something crazy, called gang stalking. I did not answer when this happened to me 3 times after moving to new neighborhood, and I stayed safe. Some people who reacted hostilely left the area quickly, they were treated more aggressively than me…Stay quiet and it’s okay usually.
I feel like I’m having a heart attack! I’ve even called an ambulence during an attack; they are so scary!
Physically… chest gets tight… heart beating so hard it hurts… I start shaking… cold sweat… can’t breathe… cant’ think straight. I’ll pace and get really agitated… or I’ll sit and end up crying…clothing feels really constricting…
In my mind… I’m going to die. I just feel like I am going to die or something so bad I can’t even describe it is going to happen. My mind is racing… I can’t really talk during a panic attack.
After… I’m so weak and edgy and almost in shock. I get so cold and can’t get warm. My muscles hurt because they were all tensed up.
I am sorry that you go through this - I do sympathize with you! You are so right , they are very scary!
I used to wake up in the middle of the night, with a heart that pounded like crazy. It was due to fear of burglars. I had this concern for some time ever since there was an attempted break in at the middle of the night. What Ive learned from this panic attack is that drinking water, eating or otherwise doing something familiar helps.
I get tunnel vision. Tingle in my arms. Hard to breathe. Pain in my chest.
I had my first ride through the “terror tunnel” in 1994-95. It lasted for eight months. I woke up in a full-force, insula > amygdala > hypothalamus > pituitary > adrenal blast through the sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system way past “fight or flight” into “freak, freeze and fry” every single day, and it lasted until I passed out in the evening.
Changing jobs and getting the negative test results on exposure to HIV seemed to “cure” it… but it came back worse than ever – for 11 months this time – in 1997. I had it for six weeks in 1999 after a full-on, bipolar I manic run. Then for eight months again in 2002-03, and for about ten days after another manic run in late 2003.
I know now that I had been either manic or hypomanic for weeks or months before all of these “terror tunnel” rides, and that I am in fact “cyclothymic,” as well as “borderline,” and this semi-psychotic, by professional diagnosis. But the most helpful diagnosis from the standpoint of medicinal and psychotherapeutic treatment has been “complex post-traumatic stress disorder.”
Though I still have occasional panic attacks, they are brief and manageable with breath control, mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) meditation and/or very occasional resort to a fractional dose of an anti-P. It’s clear to me now that it’s all about mis-interpretations and obsessive rumination leading to beating on the fight-or-flight system.
Yep, twice. It’s terrifying. Feels like you’re dying. I was convinced I was having a heart attack both times.
Basically your heart races uncontrollably and you’re just flooded with fear. The first time it happened I kept getting these hot and cold flashes too.
Usually I can keep myself from getting to that level of freaked out now though, thank the lord. I wouldn’t wish them on anyone.
When having panic attacks I feel extreme anxiety can’t breathe or swallow. Feel like I’m about to die. Go thru painful memories over and over again. Sometimes decide not to go out because of them.
Today going out with my friend but in the car feeling anxious hope I don’t get a panic attack maybe an eggnog frappe might help. At least it might give me some calming energy.