Why did it happen? and how to stop?

[lerzygirl]

So last night I was talking to my boyfriend about how I am getting really depressed and feeling like no one wants to take the effort to be friends with me. I felt like a failure and a lot of other things. Well this talk/crying lasted for about an hour and a half. It stopped when I started to hyperventilate and also started to convolse. My nerves and muscles were so bound up I was shaking and also had uncontrollable muscle twitching. I also hyperventilated. I have never had that happen before in my life and I am almost 20! I could not get it to slow down or get better for about an hour. After the hour I controlled it and it subsided but I was just then super tired. Now today is the next day. Well I have already started twitching again and hyperventilating because I had something stress me out. It comes on now with stress or emotion of happy, sad or other emotion. If I stay emotionless and also clear minded it won't happen. But if my boyfriend hugs me (which makes me happy) I start hyperventilated and shaking again. Has anyone else had this happen out of the blue after not having it ever happen? What really started it now when it had never happened before? How do I stop it? There was one point in our discussion that my boyfriend started to move and I got in this panic mode of him leaving me (even though I knew he would not) and I repeatedly told him don't leave and I started to shake and hyperventilate uncontrollably.

[Anonymous]

Maybe a panic attack. It sounds similar, but everybody describes things in their own words so can sound slightly different. But yea, it sounds like it. All you can do during is try and calm yourself down. Aside from that, to prevent them, you need to de stress. I know it's easier said than done. Just take some time out each day to push all the stressful things out of your mind and unwind like play a game or something. Breathing exercises help some people. Google de stress and breathing exercises to see if any look like they could work for you. Even try ones that sound like they won't work for you, because sometimes they surprise people and end up working.
Panic attacks are like your bodies way of saying "hey your blood pressure is sky high, your brain is going crazy, and now you need a rest... now!"
Sorry you're going through whatever you're going through right now, hope it gets better soon.

[lerzygirl]

Thanks I'll try that. It is just I have been stressed before and had talks like this with my boyfriend but never had them leading to an attack like this. I have never hyperventilate before.

[Opinion Owner]

They can come on at any time. Everybody who's had them has to have a first time. Some people even have their first one when they're 45 and older. Your body can only take some much stress. Sometimes you can go through major things and be ok and then it just takes one tiny thing to make you overflow. Like when that one tiny drop of water makes a cup overflow.
Sometimes you have warnings to calm down before you have an attack, like not sleeping well or your heart is always beating faster and things like that.
Staying emotionless and calm minded can only help for so long. Problems need to be faced head on sometimes. Sometimes it's good to be like that, but sometimes you've just gotta let it all out. And if you don't wanna cry and stuff, going for a run or bike ride can help sometimes.

[NYCQuestions1976]

Sounds like really severe and lengthy panic attacks. Try breathing exercises.

[NYCQuestions1976]

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