Anxiety & panic attacks

>>34737453
For me it stopped when I took meds for it.

Personally speaking, the realization that it was just anxiety barely did anything to assuage my panic attacks and constant anxiety. It was a primal, animalistic fear. Most days I felt like a caged animal. No amount of rationalizing it helped because my OCD would latch onto something and agitate it until it got worse.

I'd recommend you get on meds for the short term, see if you can get some CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) to help find a more long term solution.

>>34737453

I just keep going.

The hilarious part is, I'm a sales rep for a relatively important company.

Holy fucking crushing terror.

I mentioned it to my friend and he said he's never noticed.

>>34737601

important note:

I have emotional support from my imuoto, the only person I can really open up to.

Same here

Thank God I stopped with coke

Shit intensified my condition x1000

as far as im concerned, cbt is only about looking ok so normies dont get uncomfortable and try to have eme commited, rather than ever feeling ok.

Fucking panic attacks are hell. Recently I've been getting them near every day and they fucking suck.

i get panic attacks if i'm tired. a lot of times i'll go to the store and buy beer and just secretly drink at work cuz that helps

>>34737453
Never had a panic attack, but I did have constant anxiety, which led to constant nausea. I must have lost like 20lbs last year, and went to a bunch of gastroenterologists because I thought it was something fucked up like stomach cancer.

Anyways, I noticed having to interact with people triggered it, so I became super reclusive. I started coming in to work extremely early when there's no one there. I don't think I've had any kind of small talk for months now. I order everything online and only use self checkouts at grocery stores. Honestly I am much happier now, except for the times the crushing loneliness hits me like a truck.

What are some of your symptoms?

I get a dizzy feeling, feel like I'm drunk. Lightheaded, pins and needles all over my limbs and face. I've taught myself to stop hyperventilating because a normal breathing pattern is 10-12 breaths per minute tops, and it's easy to overlook how you're taking in 25-30 breaths per minute when you're anxious.

Been through all kinds of doctors - cardiologists, endocrinologists, ophthalmologists and neurologists. The only specialist I haven't been to so far is, ironically, a psychiatrist. I don't wanna fall for the SSRI meme though.

>>34737544
what meds did u take?

Who here in a constant state of panic? It just never stops for me. I want to die, but the panic attacks keep me from doing anything.

>>34737644
good job anon, stopping something like that is rare and a pretty big accomplishment

>>34738422
well when i have a proper panic attack, chest pain, loss of hearing, loss of vision, feel like ive left reality, intense feeling of horror, weakness in limbs, ringing in ear, no there is nothing wrong with me physically i went to a doctor and was checked up and down it was just anxiety

>>34737453
Did anything specific unlock your panic attacks? Health anxiety? Intrusive nonsensical thoughts?

>>34737601
>>34737632
Do you feel like your sister pities you? Or wishes you were stronger? She is a woman after all, and you shouldn't show weakness to a woman.

>>34737644
During or after you took it?

>>34737734
I look fine on the outside, I'm more concerned with what's happening on the inside. If it's even possible to "cure" yourself, because I've had panic attacks with a 60 heart rate that came out of nothing, and an anxious feeling without a reason behind it. There's a lot going on subconsciously that needs a whole new level of calm before this kind of disorder goes away, right?

>>34737762
Any particular reason you can think of, anon? Or are they just random?

>>34737794
I get pannicky if I haven't slept well. Sometimes I get stuck in that right-before-you-fall-asleep anxiety where you literally want to collapse cos you're so tired, but then waves of anxiety keep flushing you out of sleep. It's fucking horrible. Alcohol DOES help me too, but it's 2x shittier afterwards. It's even scientifically proven that alcohol withdrawal fucks you up if you have anxiety.

>>34738151
Shiet. Agoraphobia sucks. Had it for half a year, then "cured" it by literally having no choice but to go outside. If I wasn't forced to go out I'd be stuck inside too. Are you ever overcome by waves of uncertainty about the future? Those alone can fuck me up tbqh.

>>34738422
Dizzy, blind spots, after images, ringing in ears, feel like I'm gonna faint, feel like my head's gonna explode, feel like my heart's gonna stop, feel like my spine is misaligned. During the worst panic attack I was literally screaming "WHAT DID I DO TO DESERVE THIS". Shit was intense.

>>34738607
Yeah, got that looming feeling of uncertainty too.
Sometimes I'll have nightmares, and when I wake up I get super consumed about finding ways to prevent it.

Like I had one where I got kidnapped, so I got a Concealed Handgun License and started carrying it when I go out.

Had another where I was running, fell and broke an ankle, and there was no one around, so I bought comprehensive first aid kits and books and delved deep into what I should do from general illness to broken ribs.

Had another where the brakes on my car stopped working and I got into a high speed crash, so I read the manual for my car from end to end and check my brakes super regularly.

No matter what I do though, I feel like I'm gonna get fucked eventually. There's just too much shit that can go wrong in life. I guess having control of as much as possible makes me feel better though, that's probably why I feel fine at home.

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>>34739123

>tfw you have prepared emergency reactions for the most incredibly unlikely scenarios ever
>tfw prepared emergency reaction for testicular torsion
>tfw prepared emergency reaction for retinal detachment
>tfw prepared emergency reaction for home invasion

just end my misery

>don't believe in afterlife

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>>34739200
> retinal detachment
oh man i remember reading about that too, shit sounds fucking terrifying.

i honestly wonder what normies even think about if not the billions of ways life is trying to fuck your shit up.

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>>34739446
retinal detachment is nothing compared to that one time i was convinced i had MS because of all the weird neurological symptoms that persisted for months

was literally ready to an hero during MRI confirmation day, which only confirmed that everything was normal

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>>34737453
>real anxiety
>friends

choose one.

the age of panic attacks in my life has gone and i hope they never come back, their peak was when i was 10-11 had to go to a clinic for it and still have generalized anxiety especialy in social situations.i fight with this shit everyday. I can best describe a panic attack as like knowing your in a horror scene where you know some terrible shit is going to happen but there is no apperent threat and despite all logic and reason you feel as if you are a dead man walking, about to be taken/killed at the hands of an unpredictable, malevolent force all accompanied by a looming sense of impending doom and pure dread that can bring even the strongest of people to gnash their teeth and weep in dispair. However, i did enjoy the aftermath since it was such a releaf to know it was all over.

>>34739200
>home invasion

you better be ready. i'd tell you to buy a gun but you'd probably just shoot yourself with it.

Meditation and nondualism, you can make peace with your anxiety.

>>34739811
yeah a gun with muh OCD is a no-no

>work with superglue
>PUT SOME DROPS IN UR EYES FAGGOT DO IT

>cut stuff with a knife
>CUT UR MUMS THROAT FAGGOT DO IT

;_; why must life be so miserable

>>34739857
meditation dosen't completly stop the anxiety alltogether, however it brings me into a more reasonable state. Meditating when you are actualy relaxed is greath though. hardest part is pushing through the first 5 mins.

>go to grocery store
>get anxiety feels even though i'm 100% calm
i swear they put stuff in the air......... every. fucking. time.

the lightheaded feeling at checkout is literally its own category of panic attack feel

>>34740013

Couldn't it just be that a variety of regular sensations and sights at grocery stores in particular are triggering you, through association?

Maybe it started as fear of the checkout, and you've unconsciously come to associate subtle cues with an impending threat?

I used to vomit every day in the car on the way to school, and I know certain things about the smell and feel of the car triggered the anxiety.