Over the last 5 years I have been getting panic attacks...my doctor at one time put me on wellbutrin for it as well as paxil but neither worked. I feel like nothing will help me at this point.
I am so annoyed and disgusted with them! I was never this way but it seems like since I had my daughter I have started to get them.
This is when I get them:
When I am in the car with others driving...it's very frustrating because I feel I need to drive everywhere and am embarrassed when they happen with others
When I am driving and I am on a narrow roadway
When I am driving on a bridge
When I am driving at night
When I am on a train or airplane and sometimes boats
When I am walking my dog in the dark
When I am sitting outside by myself in the dark
When I have low funds in my bank account
It seems as though I know when they happen...I am scared of being broke so I know that one and it's a big issue...I worry a lot, I was in a car accident many years before this all started but I figured that this has nothing to do with it really because for so many years I was fine after the accident. I have never been afraid of the dark but now I always have things going through my mind and I freak out at night. I know the bridge ordeal to a point...I saw something on TV a few years ago about a bridge that was ruined by a boat and people were driving on the bridge and drove right into the water...but this is a 1 in a billion thing and I keep telling myself this but I still freak
I don't know how to control these attacks and don't know what to do they are upsetting and embarrassing. My family members give me a really hard time about it all the time, they don't seem to understand that I can't control the attacks and get very angry with me. It is to a point where I don't know what to do anymore because it started out just being one thing that would give me attacks but now it's progressed into many. Someone help please.