SEVERE PANIC ATTACKS

[Marley24-7]

I am dealing with debilitating panic attacks several times a day. I am so scared anyone else out there feel like this

[Sober2007]

Hi Marley, I just logged on and saw your post. I too suffer from anxiety that can be overwhelming at times. I'd like to suggest that you visit the link I'm about to send you and spend an hour listening to it. It's all about how to overcome anxiety, and it has helped me for sure. I wish you all the best.

youtube.com/watch?v=MHr4a71...(Not working as expected?)

[Bb2913]

I'm going through the exact same thing. I've never experienced anything like this before and I feel like it's never going to end. I wake up feeling intense anxiety and I feel like I can't communicate to anyone else around me what I'm going through.

[digitalmentalist]

I cannot find anyone that has my kind of panic attacks. I would rather be dead than have another attack. Tell me how you feel when having a panic attack.

My panic attacks have nothing to do with feeling like I am dying I feel like the word panic no longer has the original meaning anymore. When I get a panic attack that is exactly what happens I panic for no reason. The attack will come on suddenly and escalate into sheer terror within seconds. In the 1990s till the year 2000, I was taking Lorazepam for about 10 years. Never developed a resistance to it until the year 2000. Then when I took the last dose before getting a refill it worked fine. Then the next day I got my prescription and it no longer worked. I have been doing a lot of research on finding safer anxiolytic medications. Sad to say there are far more people suffering from depression that is why there are a lot of safe antidepressants but no safe anxiolytics. There is only one group of drugs used for anxiety and they are benzodiazepines which over time become dangerously addictive. We anxious people need to speak out more. make the drug companies aware that there are enough of us to warrant making safer meds for our conditions.

[Nom-D-Ploom in reply to digitalmentalist]

I have had only 1 panic attack, as I see it. I have a recurrent dream of disaster on a specific section of a freeway near us. One day my husband decided that using the route that I dream of would be a few miles shorter. As we neared the entrance ramp I realized that it was THAT road. I totally lost it. I was fighting to get out of the car as we sped up to the ramp. Finally he realized that it was more trouble than it's worth, and got off the ramp. I lost a lot of trust in him after that.

My DR claims that the fact that I get physically sick when I leave the house is a panic attack. No. True panic is when you would jump out of a speeding car on the freeway.

I am sorry you are facing panic attacks. A word we use in nursing is 'hypervigilant. I like that word better. It means that what looks likes senseless fear and panic to others is just a mechanism to prevent injury and pain. Self defense.

I use Prazosin for the nightmares. It helps.

I think out the time away from home....rehearse it. By seeing all possibilities we can focus our distress on what we think might happen, and ways to circumvent problems.

[digitalmentalist]

It has only been recently that I have had the same problem. If I sleep more than 4 hours I wake up feeling very anxious. Never knew that this happened to anyone else.