panic attacks 2 for a dollar!

[gfrancie]

I feel like I am on the edge of one of those depressive states I occasionaly fall into, that can last either from a week or for a year. I was sitting in mass this morning, and I was over-welmed with an anxiety attack. The very idea of being outside lately, leaves me feeling paralyzed with fear. I think I will be fine. I just need to remind myself. that I can leave the house and not have a panic attack.

I think I will go lie down and listen to music.

Comments

[marzipan-pig.livejournal.com]

one thing that's helped me is noticing that yes, being short of breath or chest pains or whatever is just
what anxiety feels like, yes, I am doing it right, I am feel anxious and here it is
turning up in qall these annoying symptoms, I'm not
dying, nothing is really wrong, it's just an anxiety attack.

not that thye don't suck though, ick.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

they suck more then anything, but I know I will be fine. Fortunatly I didn't have to face a plethora of responses of people being smarmily kind, "hey kid, you okay?"
I hate that stuff.

[marzipan-pig.livejournal.com]

YES i AM FINE, MY BODY IS TELLING ME I AM PERCEIVING A STRESSOR OF SOME KIND
IN MY ENVIRONMENT.

usually mine aren't that obvious to others, or are around some phobia people already know about (dogs for instance) so no one asks.

once in college I woke up with one and my then bf didn't get it and started asking me all these stressful questions and then I GOT A NOSEBLEED, which helped coz it made me laugh, like, see, if I'm alreadyu freaking out,
don't shoot all these questions at me or MY HEAD WILL EXPLODE ha ha ha.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

I should start telling people that.