Panic Attack Symptoms

Great article...

I have had panic attacks and I can tell you that they are horrible to experience.  You feel like you are dieing...all this fear.  I have had some more frequently after my diagnosis of MS.  It seems that some stimuli will trigger them for me...like blinking or flashing lights or repetetive noises.  It is definitely something about my wiring...that must causing this. 

Thanks for writing about this...there are probably a lot of people who experience this and don't know what is happening to them or that there is help.

i've had a number of panic attacks in the hospital er waiting to go on the inpatient unit.

Its a place where they isolate you.

I felt like it was prison.I tried to get along with people.I did too well.

Jon

I've had more panic attacks then I could keep count of. At one time I was counting the really big ones but around the ten mark I lost the ability to keep track. The first big one, as far as I know because I wasn't diagnosed at the time, I only vaguely remember and was highly embarrassing because it happened at school. My family had just moved over to England to live (from Australia) and I was walking down the corridor on my way to lunch, I think, and all of a sudden I was crying and weak and shaky and couldn't stand, I found it hard to breathe, and was just this huge mess. I excused it by saying I was homesick but I really had no idea why I had fallen apart like that. The corridor had been full because it was on the way to the lunch hall and I actually held people up falling to the floor in a mess right in the middle of the corridor. SO embarrassing. I was thirteen at that time.

Luckily most of my other big ones have happened in private, though my parents have been unfortunate enough to witness three where I couldn't help but make noise and so woke them up (they often happen when I try to relax at night and so let my guard down). I sometimes think it might actually be worse for an observer because he/she is helpless to do anything to assist the person who is clearly petrified and in a horrible state before them.

I'm not a fan of medication so I just try to weather my panic attacks and in truth have actually gotten quite used to them. But still they are unpleasant things that leave you very disorientated, confused and upset afterwards, not to mention the silly notion that you must be weak for having them (I think I've combatted that one...), and I never feel more vulnerable then when I'm in the grip of a panic attack. In fact I have to question their usefulness - in a situation of real danger if I fell to pieces like that I'd be of no use: it's neither fight or flight, it's full to pieces!!!

It would be nice if panic attacks didn't exist but this is a good piece on them...

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