(Living With Anxiety) What A Panic Attack Feels Like (Page 2)

[just_a_potato]

I liked this mytake it's very easy to read and interpret, my support to you ma'am ❤

[markanthonypeace]

I am just out of a relationship with a woman with strong anxieties. I feel for you

[Kas19]

To sum it up, anxiety attacks are like adrenaline rushes.

[Adrianna7868]

As someone who suffers from panic attacks and loves adrenaline, that is an insult to adrenaline.

[Kas19]

Uh... what? I literally have anxiety disorder and get frequent panic attacks. I was saying what they felt like for me.

[Adrianna7868]

Joke...

[Kas19]

The dislikes say otherwise.

[Sonorous]

I agree with kas on this one! For me, they are like adrenaline rushes. I go into fight or flight mode. I think whoever disliked this opinion was only thinking about adrenaline in a positive context and not the negative one. It can be both, pleasurable and stressful.

[Kas19]

Exactly ^ I live adrenaline before roller coasters, or just doing certain things. But during anxiety attacks, they're the worst. It feels like my body is sent into overdrive and I can't stop shaking. One of the worst feelings.

[Sonorous]

Yeah, I hate stress filled adrenaline rushes! They're such buzzkills!

[Dkc123]

Tnx for sharing. Was into anxiety issues it's great to learn something about it on the deeper level.

[Ritwik1]

I am suffering from ocd and depression over a decade. I can relate and understand. Consult any better psychiatrist. Keep faith in God.

[Anonymous]

Wait, so you have no particular reason to get panic like life and death situation or about to be attacked by animal?

[myTake Owner]

No, I can be laying in my bed about to sleep, and I'll get one. The situation doesn't matter.

[Opinion Owner]

No trigger at all?

[myTake Owner]

None.

[Opinion Owner]

That's so scary. So your mind is okay, your body just in panic?

[myTake Owner]

Both are in panic. My body is reacting to the panicked state my mind is in during an attack.

[Opinion Owner]

I'm a type of person who is able to stay calm even in life and death situation. Although I can't relate but thank you for sharing and educating me. If I know someone experiencing panic attack, what can I do to help them?

[myTake Owner]

Everybody needs different things during a panic attack. Some prefer to be left alone, others like having somebody nearby to remind them to breathe and to comfort them. If you know somebody with anxiety, the best thing is to ask them specifically what helps.

[MsMusic]

I can have blood spraying out at me at work and stay calm. But the second someone makes a joke about rape, or when I see a shadow behind me I don't expect, it can send me into a full blown panic attack.

It doesn't matter your stress tolerance. Anxiety is... Something different. It's horrible.

[Opinion Owner]

@MsMusic I never had a full blown panic attack the way asker described. I'm assuming yours the same with those triggers? I've been conditioned to think about survival during panic moment. It is more like adrenaline rush, flight or flee or froze reaction for me. I brace myself for impact or pain if I am expecting it. I run or scream if wild animals about to attack me. I've been taught being panic does not do me any good apart from... well, panicking.

I realize hers is a kind of illness as she can simply be in panic state for no reason,

[MsMusic]

I have ptsd. I have had it for years, since I was 13. I've had depression since I was 10. Both of my 'illnesses' have gotten immensely better in the last year or two.

I had those panic attacks she described? Every single day of my life. For years. If I felt like someone paid too much attention to me, it could send me into a panic attack. It was exhausting. Imagine the saddest you've ever been. How tired did it make you? Exhausted after the tears?

I had a very memorable panic attack once, someone was joking about rape or murder in class. I just reacted. Ran out of class. All but collapsed the second I was in the hall. Just hit the ground. Curled into a ball, I couldn't breathe. I couldn't see clearly, because all I could really see were the flashbacks through my tears. I just sat in the hall for an hour. People passed by. No one stopped to see if I was okay. I literally could not stand because I didn't have the energy. It felt like everyone who passed by was going to 'kill' me. I had to remind myself that they weren't him. People aren't like him. No one wanted to kill me.

There is no... Training or conditioning for a panic attack. Imagine being choked, you can't get the hand off your throat, and you're fading in and out of consciousness while realizing you're drowning. Imagine that sort of panic. Someone choking you underwater. That's what it feels like, no way to get above water, no way to get the hand off, you can't fight it like that.

[Opinion Owner]

@MsMusic I have almost drown before, it was a surreal moment for me. I really thought I was gonna die and water kept coming in my stomach and filling my lungs. I did not panic. I was thinking more about my parents and how sad they will be once they received the news their daughter is dead. But before I could not breath any longer, someone saved my life and managed to untangle my foot. Another team took me out from the water into their boat and quickly took me to the medic. I was calm, I told myself to breathe slowly. The reacue crews were trembling and shaking to my surprise. They asked me if I was fine, I stared at all of them and nodded my head. I was scared of water for a week after that. The point is I know what its like but I don't panic.

I'm sorry to know you have gone through a very traumatic experience. I'm sure it must be hard. Did you seek professional help?

[MsMusic]

I have not seeked help, no. I'm doing much better now. But I know what it's like. There's no controlling it unless you can avoid triggers. Her ability to stay calm in stressful situations is not correlated with her panic attacks.

[AkshiJanjua]

i once had a panic attack being drunk as hell i couldn't stop vomiting after that

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

I've felt anxiety before and that grabage is straight from hell. Totally energy draining for me.

Thank God for my good health and prayer.

[intjgamer]

I used to get anxiety attacks until I figured out what triggers them. For me it was all about being impatient.

[S_Rose]

Thank you for this <3

[Secretgardenblood]

Good take

[rizeli5334]

nbr dost

[Gabriella90]

I feel you.

[YingKim]

I know the feeling!