I get panic attacks and increased paranoia almost every night. Trazadone helps some, I take 150 mg. Benzodiazipines don’t touch me. The best thing I’ve taken before for panic attacks is thorazine. But it has bad side effects.
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I’m not sure. I definitely experience episodes of extreme anxiety and well… panic… on many occasions. I have a tremor and I can’t think straight and my thoughts are racing when this happens. I feel like I’m going to really lose it.
But when I talked to a psychiatrist they told me a panic attack feels like a heart attack. Like, racing heart, shortness of breath, sweating, feeling faint… I don’t get any of that.
So yeah, I don’t know.
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I have agoraphobia. When I am outside, I am nearly having panic attacks. So when I am in a shop, I just go out or I sit somewhere because I fear i will faint
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what you describe is what i get as well
i think this is a panic attack… don’t agree with the definition being all overruling
sorry Om, that sounds really terrible
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When and where do you get your panic attacks?
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In public, generally
this time in a supermarket at the checkout
i hardly ever get them really - first one in a long time
it was the most intense i have had in 25 yrs
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I can’t go to a supermarket alone.
I have panic attacks.
I go with my mother.
But even this doesn’t help.
I usually go out of the supermarket and calm down cos inside I have panic
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I’ve only ever had a panic attack a couple of times in my life. I feel anxiety at times, yes, but i don’t tend to panic.
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Panic attacks are hard I normally calm down if I can find a quiet place though
Afterwards I always crawl in bed and burrow in
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It’s good to hear of another person who has felt the need to do this
I usually go with my mum or husband most of the time as well, now it is slightly different being away from ‘home’ now having moved a couple of hours away - it feels different being based somewhere else
but effectively i still usually go together with one of them
I used to have a crazy few minutes and go on a spree like spend £90 on fish on my own
or just not have the capacity and drop things and need help in the isles
I didn’t really know this was something that happens much
i see so many mothers or single people in supermarkets, feels like they are coping better
yeah a quiet moment is really needed
I’m very slightly worried if they are the start of a psychosis
it concerns me because the stress of moving house has reached a down turn point 3 months down the line and now i guess is the fallout time
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