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Q: Identifying panic attack ?
asked by: dfowler1976 on February 18th, 2009
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It all started 5 years ago when I was sitting watching tv. I wasn't nervous and was having an ok time. Here's where it gets weird. I started to hear voices of people saying "I'm going to kill you" or something stupid like that. Now I never had once heard voices before this day! But for years since i did which is one of the reasons doctors said I was Schizo-Affective. Other reasons included delusions, I thought people were trying to torture me and this was because of the "panic attack"

Anyway I started to feel a warming in my chest and suddenly my heart started to speed up and pound and I had to stand up and pace doubled over. It was so horrific I had to call an ambulance to take me to the ER. When I got there it continued, in the ambulance as well, and I truly thought the government was trying to kill me and for some stupid reason, at the time, i thought it might have been cause I'm half Jewish! how silly is that!

So when I got to the hospital I started experiencing an equally painful feeling in my head, my brain to be exact. It sort of felt like something or someone was trying to make me faint and my brain felt a pressure on itself and this happened for a while and I could barely think and I heard an audible buzz. Anyway to make a long story short this happened, almost as bad, one more time than many times after over the years much much less but still scary and somewhat painful.

Now I don't hear voices anymore and am not delusional. But I do have severe memory problems and flatness of mood among other things. So were these panic attacks? And is it related to my mood and memory problems?

Devon
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saikia87
replied on March 1st, 2009
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yes these are panic attacks!
Yes i would say they are panic attacks in cases of panic attacks they could strike a persons brain for no unknow reason and can make u feel like your going crazy i had many panic attacks to where i would feel like im passing out went to the er mutiple times got a mri and every blood work test you can name they could not find anything wrong with me i never heard any voices though or felt like someone tried to harm me it was scary though the feeling i was having i worried something was seriously wrong with my brain but i can guarantee these are panic attacks you are having my friend
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