Panic Attack

[Leopard45]

Can anyone explain what their panic attacks are like? It hard to put mine into words. So just want to connect and relate with people to see if I have the same

[blackcat64013]

Hi Courtflyjay,

The best way to describe the panic attacks (PAs) is to list you symptoms - there are about 10 common ones. Each PA is different for each anxious patient: firstly because of body chemistry, secondly through the stressor which triggers the PA is most likely difference and thirdly variances individual coping mechanism's affect the outcome.

If you are done PA awareness in therapy or through research of your PAs, one way to record details in words is to think through one - what happens before, during and after.

You can go one step further and write down what you need to do when a PA happens and if they is anything another person can do to support you.

A really good reference is from Lifeline in Australia

lifeline.org.au/static/uplo...

All the best

[joegonza89]

I have different symptoms every time. First I feel like I have to run away and get help. I feel dizzy with shortness of breath and my heart races. I feel shaky and trembling in my arms and legs. I feel very out of it like confused. Sometimes my mouth becomes very dry and my head hurts or feels like it has pressure inside.

[Hidden]

My first anx/panic attack started off as suffocation feeling. Then I panicked and hyperventilated and became all buzzy.

I was that was constant for many months and then, it went away when I didn't fear it anymore.

Then I became very dizzy and felt like I was going to faint a lot, for about a year. Then it went away when I was assured I was fine through every test under the sun.

Then it became this crazy faint/ sick feeling that feels like I'm going to just drop.

[moll123]

my heart beats fast ,and my hands shake/tremble ,

[pata99]

Like someone pulls the cord to your mind and you are about to die. The most scarry feeling in mankind. Headpressure and attacks that depersonalise you for a couple of seconds.

[Peacewithin1]

The feeling like the worst thing possible is about to happen, heart beating with no control, everything looks really bright, fear, unable to breathe, shakiness and after you feel really exhausted.