Have you ever had a panic attack?
>>84313669depends what do you say a panic attack looks like
>>84313676If you need to ask this, you've never had one
ive only had panic attacks when i was high on weed. ive panicked where i started shivering from adrenaline when i was sober before but thats not a panic attack
Yeah I get nervous
Yes, it's 200% conviction that you're gonna die. Luckily I haven't had one in 10 years. That was some retarded shit. Just hold your breath for 30 seconds when you feel one coming.
>>84313669I thought I did, but it turns out I have a heart condition.
>>84313691I met a strange lady, she made me nervousShe took me in and gave me breakfast
>>84313669Yes, only a couple of times, and none in recent years.The worst one had me crying and trying to climb on top of my dresser, I think back and struggle to understand what was going through my head, I guess I was trying to hide up there or something.
>>84313669I have had a few when it came to girls but the ones that stuck with me was when I was dealing with a death. I could not cope correctly and I had a full on panic attack at work and in my car and in the shower a few times. It sucked.
>>84313669does tripping on drugs count?
Just take a Benzo you pussy ass faggit.
>>84313669Only at the disco!Oh, well imagine
I have generalized panic disorder. Basically any time I'm not actively having a panic attack, I'm crippled by the anxiety and fear of having one. It would have completely ruined my life if I didn't end up medicated. Literal months of not being able to leave my couch, days without eating, needing to force myself to drink water, shit sucked.
>>84313669just don't get anxious lol
>>84313669Yes, and it carried on into adulthood.I got a really bad stomach bug in my teens. They had to pull me out of school. It was agonizing. I was holding onto hope that when my sibling came back with gingerail it would make it feel better. It didn't, and the nausea became progressively overwhelming and I got really afraid and my breath didn't feel like it was giving me air, and my extremities started to get numb. My mom called the police when I fell on the floor and couldn't move. The numbness spread inward toward me. My hands locked in an italian gesture and grew cold. I couldn't feel my face or control my lips. I thought I was going to die because the numbness would spread to my lungs. I told my mom as best as I could that she did a good job and to not feel bad and that I loved her. The police came in, checked on me, and then just waited as my situation gradually improved because the nausea wasn't on my mind anymore. I puked a couple more times that day and I recovered.However, that same reaction began occuring again whenever I got too afraid or when I got more stomach bugs. It mostly pissed me off and was emberassing after that because I'd literally just have to wait it out in tense situations and it hurts really bad on my hands. But I haven't had one in 3 years now, even in intense sitstuons, so it's not really a problem anymore. Idk why.
Yeah, I start shutting myself off from others and develop a really bad cough. The longest one of these lasted was a year and a half where I just rotted in my parents basement.After that long of a time my shrink said "let's try you on klonopin for your anxiety" and just like that the cough went away. Sadly it seems like I have to take these for life now, so my mind will be mush by 40.
>>84313669Not really. I just run away from my problems and avoid them completely. I've never been in a situation where I'm stuck and panicking.
>>84313669I had a weird thing. I was just out of the shower, still in it but with the water off, and my consciousness suddenly felt like it was pushed against the front of my skull and I was existing almost outside of myself. I stood still, transfixed by the sight of droplets of water on the tile wall as they slid slowly downwards and I felt the strength in the my legs fading so I drooped into a squat, still staring at the water as it slid with me. I stayed like that an eternity until it passed and I stood up and dried off.
>>84313669Had a really bad depressive episode a few years back, you know, one of those that really fucks your life for a long while, with that came alot of anxiety and also panic attacks. The depressive episode lasted like 15 months and the anxiety on top lasted for 6 months of those 15. I remember that with the anxiety being very high I would lay in my bed and squirm like I was in pain, just couldnt feel comfortable no matter what I did. Just peak discomfort without any physical pain. It's a strange sensation. And my mind was racing non stop for hours and hours and days on end. It would sometimes peak into a panic attack, but I knew what it was so it was just a matter of riding it out, but god damn it got fucking ugly there for a while.
>>84313669twice memorized a speech to give in front of the school got to the podium, all eyes on me>open panicattack.exeforgot the words.Have job interview 25 years later Current job is hell everything is a trickInterviewer says nothing is a trick>which means its a trick>this is my ticket out I can't fuck this up>shortcircutpanicattack.execouldn't traverse a list in pythoncouldn't select the sum of some values to find a percentage/ratiocouldn't even calculate a percentage properlyI'm the most experienced I have ever been, that was one of the easiest interviews of my life, and it was also the interview where I performed the worst.
Yeah it was an alcohol withdrawal related one i literally couldn't keep my light off it was so surreal id start frantically shaking and hyperventilating unless i was sitting up on my bed rocking back and forth staring at my room lightbulb
I have them often. I'm able to do cbt techniques to calm most of them down but the most severe that won't go away I have klonopin for.
>>84313669Always been afraid of bugs, when I was a kid a huge moth flew into our house and my parents forced me to go and try to kill it. When I inevitably broke down in a panic attack as it repeatedly flew at me my mom filmed it and thought it was hilarious.I don't mean to be edgy or woe is me, but I haven't seen vulnerability the same since. I haven't been open with my family in many many years.
