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Q: How Did Your Anxiety/panic Start?
asked by: truckstophero on August 30th, 2005
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Mine>:

i was trapped on the 32nd floor of an apartment block during the biggest earthquake in 5 years in taiwan. The whole thing shook for over a minute. I was petrified.. I ran around the building, looked down the hall, pieces of plaster were falling off the walls, there was no-one around (everyone was at work).. I pysically shook for over an hour afterwards. Then 5 days later I had a huge panic attack followed by having to go to the emergency room at 3 in the morning convinced I was having a heart attack. Nothing. I was all clear.

Two months later I was walking with my friends wife when suddenly I heard screeching.. I turned around and saw a blur just shoot past me eye and smash into his wife, she went flying and had a motorbike of drunk drivers land on top of her..

Then I was in london for the terrorist attacks and had to take the underground the next day

then I heard a horrific attack on a taxi driver when I was sleeping.

All this together and the doc diagnosed me with ptsd and anxiety.. I have had mulitple panic attacks. I also have an inner ear disease and depression so its not a pretty sight.

I am 28 and love photography so thats my only outlet.

What a messed up life it can be.. But things will be better..

At the moment its just chest pains, depressions, feeling of imminent danger or threat, I see accidents happen in my mind but they never really happen in life, dizziness, get moody, dont want to talk.. Etc..Etc
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truckstophero
replied on August 31st, 2005
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No-one?
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australian
replied on September 6th, 2005
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Mine,
started a few years ago after two life threatening visits to the hospital within two months of each other(allergies), not to mention a stupid doctor who convinced me I had cancer with no proof.
Anyway I have been on zoloft, only half a tablet a day, the dr's think it had a placebo effect on me. But I haven't taken any med's for quite sometime. What really seemed to work was hypnotherapy, since my first session I haven't had a crippling attack, and I used to have really bad attacks, so bad I was at the emergency every night. I get the standard symptoms the heavyness of breathe, dizziness, light headed, chest pains, feeling of thread and the worst the unbearable fear, fear of what, yes dying, but "of" what? God only knows. The funny thing was before the attacks I would never go to the dr's for anything, broken ribs, cuts, burns what ever, but the panic attacks changed all that.
For the last year I have been pretty good, but this last week I have stumbled only a little, i'm having trouble breathing, standard stuff but try telling my brain!!!
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truckstophero
replied on September 6th, 2005
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Yeah thats the stupid part. 99% of the times I know its nothing serious and I isnt anything bad but my brain tells me its cancer, or tumour, or a stroke or something. Thats the hardest part of all.. Trying to tell yourself you are ok., its normal... Grrr
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bicca
replied on September 26th, 2005
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When I was 8 my best friend got hit by a car right infront of me, and I know I could have stopped her if I had moved more quickly.
I can't remember anything before junior high school.I know this happened though.
When I was 11 I started cutting.
A boy called me ugly when I was 12 and I stopped eating for a few years.
I was diagnosed with scoliosis not long after and forced to wear a backbrace at night and felt absolutely isolated. I miss tightening it until the plastic couldn't go anymore because I dropped so many inches during that period.
When I was 14 we adopted my younger sister who verbally abuses me and knocked me out of the attention of my parents eyes.
When I was 16 I had spinal fusion surgery.
Then I became addicted to various hardcore stimulants.
When I was 17 I had an abortion that I promised myself for years I would never have. I don't regret it though.
My boyfriend and I broke up on my 18th birthday, after a year and a half of being exclusive and known for our love.
I also saw a man's body leaning out the window of his car that had been slammed against a cement freeway wall.

Things are just getting really scary. I'm hallucinating and forget to breathe all the time. Part of me wants to be left for dead.
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annaf2001
replied on October 3rd, 2005
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Bicca pm me if you need someone to talk to.

Mine started the night my grandmother died. I had been with her everyday at the hospital for 3 months before she died. I took care of her and then I didn't get to say I love you for the last time before she died. That night I had decided to go back to my dorm room and later that night I got a call that I need to come to say goodbye. I didn't make it in time. There she was lying there lifeless. I broke into hives and hyperventilated. That was 4 years ago this january.
Then a year ago my husband was shipped off to the war. Several times that year I had panic attacks. The worst one was when I came to pick him up in april. I thought that I was going to die. It lasted the longest. He had told me he didn't love me anymore.
I have not had one since but I feel anxiety on a daily basis. I feel like crying all of a sudden with no warning but at other times I am fine and feel happy. Does anyone else feel like this?
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bicca
replied on October 3rd, 2005
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Yeah. That roller coaster effect.

I'm just trying to remember that we live once, and move on. People are stronger than they think.
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