Anxiety attack

[Grumbello]

I woke up two days ago with a very, very mild case of anxiety. Reading things on here did give me a bit of mild case but I just wasn't feeling well, emotionally. It transferred into yesterday and though I was feeling better just my energy levels for socializing and being around people was really low.

I was wondering if anyone else, in the midst of mild to intense attacks search for pain? And I'm not talking about physical pain, I'm talking about searching for ways to make your stress, your emotional pain or thoughts worse? I know I do. I don't mean to...not consciously but even now the guilt and pain eat away at me and threaten to make my anxiety worse. I just need someone to understand me right now and not blame me like I seem to want to do. I want to blame myself. And in the end I always do. It's always my fault.

[ButterfliesInHerEyes]

Well, I know when I had panic attacks daily, I would start with the "What if..." thinking. That would quickly take on a life of its own and scare me so much, my panic attack would get worse, the scary thoughts would get worse.... it would become a vicious cycle. Not sure if that's what you're referring to?

The way to get rid of a panic attack, instead of feeding it and making it worse, is to distract yourself. If your mind is on something else (a movie, book, song, etc) you'll stop focussing on your panic symptoms and it'll go away. Also, do something physical - clean closets if you have to - but something physical helps use up all the excess adrenalin that floods your body during a panic attack. If you just sit there, afraid to move, all that adrenalin has nowhere to go. Hope that makes sense.

[Grumbello]

It's just nice hearing people sort of talk to me about it. You know? I just need someone to say 'I know'. So thank you. It's wonderful advice and I will do my best to use it...my problem still remains that I don't know I'm doing it till I'm in the middle of causing myself pain and then getting out of it can be a bit hard But thank you...means a lot that you'd take the time to reply

[ButterfliesInHerEyes]

Yes absolutely. It's not easy to do, especially at first. And I do understand about being in the middle of it before realizing what's going on. But the more you do things to get out of that mindset, the easier it will get over time. Keep in mind too, that each and every panic attack, although they're absolutely AWFUL always always go away. So this too shall pass.

Big hug.

[Lorni]

I had a very bad anxiety attack, paramedics were called it was mental. And I can viviedly remember why it came on. I was diagnosed with possibly kindey stones, in the mean time I was taking anti biotics to treat it as if it were an infection until lab results came back. I hadn't eated that day, nothing and I was starving!!! So mum got me, tuna sandwich.. And rink and some ready to eat chicken bites. I ate all of it, then my boyfriend rang to see how I was ect.. And on the phone I felt pit sick! I felt so sick I had to hang up I ran upstairs, assuming I was going to be S¤ but I wasn't. Just heaves! But then I must have gone in to totally panic mode, I didn't know where I was. What was happening, shaking vioently and I still felt so sick oh and I needed a wee every second. They are crazy things, and from my experiance I can't even explain it. So I'm still confused about it? I have never had one since, and touch wood I don't. The paramedic came, popped a oxygen mask over my face and checked my blood pressure which was of a 60 year old. Its almost a degree of your body going in to shock, its very odd xx

[KaydeeJayde]

Lorni, that sounds awful. What you described, the shaking, not knowing where I am, and the wee-ing... that all sounds a bit like me when I panic, but I've never had paramedics called for me, touch wood. I'm sorry that happened to you.

[Grumbello]

Lorni that's so awful and I'm sorry you went through that. Thank you for sharing such an intimate detail with me. The last time I had a sever anxiety/panic attack I actually can't remember. My mind blocked it. Which is annoying because like I said before, I tend to not know I'm in a sever panic attack till I'm actually smack bang in the middle of one. Suffice to say I've never needed medics though. I'm terribly sorry such an event happened though. *hugs* never nice