How do you guys deal with panic attacks? I just graduated college

zoloft. had them when i was15

>>37594879
Is medication really the only way to get them under control?

Alcohol and avoiding stressful situations.

I've tried exposing myself to anxiety inducing situations in the hope that I will get used to them, but it hasn't worked.

>>37594913
Problem is I want to go to grad school... so I have no choice but be put in uncomfortable situations. I thought college would increase my stress resistance and instead it's made me even more of a pussy to stress

>>37594913
>>37594983
I too thought stressful situations would help. I have a very stressful job that gives me alot of anxiety.
Instead if getting used to it and improving I have only gotten much much worse.

Same as you OP. I am applying to med schools right now. I've been running around asking for letters of recommendations. I get mini-panic attacks before going to the buildings where my professors' offices are to ask. I keep thinking I'll annoy them and just get kicked out. Surprisingly everyone I've asked has said yes... I have a horrible feeling it might be a trap of some sort and they'll submit on saying I'm an autistic idiot or something which I will have to answer for at an interview or just cost me an interview.

I have been experiencing a bunch of depression-like symptoms right now that people at work are noticing, including one of my letter writers which makes it particularly dangerous.

>>37595329
Why the fuck does if it get worse?! I thought it was like a muscle if you worked it out it got stronger

>>37595687
I am having the same fears of you. What if the professor doesn't like me and tries to sabotage my prospects. The only thing I can recommend is just go to therapy. There has to be a reason for the paraonoid thinking

>>37596137
History of treatment for mental illness could disqualify you from getting a license to practice medicine in some states.

>>37596159
I would imagine that would be if it was something severe like schizophrenia

>>37596348
It depends:
http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2016/02/stop-mental-health-questions-physician-job-applications.html

Things seem to be changing, but I doubt anything significant will happen in the next 4 years so the current group is still SOL.

>>37594813
Distract yourself. Porn or vidya are most effective

Grounding exercises work for me.

whatever you do, do not isolate yourself at home thinking it will get better, it can get infinitely worse

effectively paralysed, can't function as a human and the "future" is only darkness

therapy and the drugs they force you on is a joke. They get paid to pretend to care yet can't remember a fucking word you say and then go on to dictate their shit