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anyone ever experience an anxiety attack? (pg. 3)
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| djnitride |
Yeah too much caffeine does it for me usually. When my caffeine starts wearing off if I am tired it can get pretty bad.
Alot of people like to blame it on their E usage from their laser unicorn days but I didn't notice a difference before I started to after I quit. |
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| Moongoose |
| I think i had one once. It was probably the tiest experience in my life, that includes getting hit with an iceskate in the face, suffering a major concussion and being unable to remember anything for a month and getting royally screwed over by some people i thought were friends i could trust. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by djnitride
Alot of people like to blame it on their E usage from their laser unicorn days but I didn't notice a difference before I started to after I quit. |
The only time I've ever come remotely close to an anxiety attack was on the comedown from E. |
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| Trance-MB |
| quote: | Originally posted by Salegon
They use to appear seemingly out of nowhere. A real panic attack is experienced as a life-threatening event which maintains itself through a positive feedback loop and can last for serveral hours (imagine a pulse of 180 bpm for just an hour :eek: ). Feeling the panic-induced high blood pressure, people are afraid of possible aneurysms bursting or loss of control over their body as well as dozens of other life-threatening events thus enhancing the panic attack.
Quite "harmless" for most people, panic attacks pose a serious thread for those with servere cardiovascular diseases or large aneurysms. |
I had a real panic attack 10 years ago during lunch at work, probably started by something in my stomach or bowel. Felt like I was going to die, pain on the chest, dizzy, losing all control, very scary.
Knowing I could control my breath maybe made it worse as I could out-rule hyperventilation. Something which has been tested later by simulating hyperventilation, which again showed it wasn't a hyperventilation attack. I was able to get out of hyperventilation without any help.
I'm on 10mg Seroxat since then. Never knew what really caused it. I don't out-rule stress and sensitive below reaction. I probably suffer of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS, or spastic colon) but don't have the common symptoms. Signals from below to brain are extremely quick, which most people experience when looking at a scary movie. Some people are or get very sensitive for those signals. |
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| Syntonic |
A couple years ago I was getting them all the time... didn't know what brought them on either. All I know is it's like your own personal hell that seems inescapable and you don't know when you are going to get out of it. One time I was just sitting on my couch and my heart rate became super fast and was able to hear it too.(crazy , right?:p)
When I get them my heads feels likes its expanding and I feel the need to get up and walk which might be counterintuitive. I'm much more conscious of when I'm getting them and start some deep breathing. I also found upper-body stretches(arms,wrists,fingers,shoulders) as well as dynamic tension to be quite helpful in reducing muscular tension which could accelerate an attack. |
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| Mr. Pink |
I've had two major ones.
One sent me to the hospital because I actually thought I was dying...
...it's a weird thing what the mind can do.
I feel like I have a good grasp of controlling my anxiety, for the most part. I don't take any medication for it (unless you count le ganja):cool:
it happens. nothing to be ashamed of. |
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| Syntonic |
| quote: | Originally posted by Mr. Pink
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Same here, went to the hospital once as well; felt like I was done for. I took some pills for a few months and stopped after feeling like a zombie and just wanted to conquer it with positive thinking. Weed also helps too. |
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| Dj Nacht |
| I started getting bad random panic attacks about 5 years ago after a bad break up. The way Vivid Boy sums it up can pretty much be applied to me. That feeling of going out of body is called depersonalization or derealization and it's scary as . I went to go see a psychologist because I kept getting them in restaurants for some reason. The doc and I would just go to restaurants and try to deal with it and I can honestly say it worked. Smoking weed will also trigger it x100 and I'll feel like I'm losing my mind, so no more of that unfortunately. |
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| Acton |
I now experience anxiety/panic attacks whenever I go hypoglycaemic. I learnt this the hard way when I had my first experience with it a couple of weeks ago.... it wasn't nice at all and it was incredibly distressing.
I've discovered that severe shaking immediately precedes a (hypoglycaemic induced) anxiety/panic attack, so I can do my best to tackle it before I get brain damage.
FML. |
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| Alex |
I used to get them. Rather, I thought they were panic attacks.
Went to hospital and was told it was paranoia, which is different and was actually part of a bigger problem. |
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| idoru |
Just twice for me.
The first was when I was about 18 or 19, shortly after I decided to take on an atheistic perspective of life. The whole "when you die, that's it" thing was terrifying at first, to the point where I had a panic attack at work one day, out of the blue. The thought became so intense and horrifying that my boss ended up watching me dry-heave in the stock room. That was really embarrassing.
The second was a few years back, on a plane. I am normally really cool with flying, and I think that flying during a sunset is one of the most beautiful things you'll ever see. The air over Texas/Arkansas/Mississippi/Alabama is rougher than much of the rest of the country (though only comparably speaking - it's really not that bad), and it was my first time flying over that area. For some reason, though, I freaked the out. I knew it was a panic attack, I knew that I was fine, but I just could not stop my legs from shaking like crazy and was borderline hyperventilating for a good hour. Every flight since then has been smooth sailing, and to this day I have no idea what came over me. |
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| Spacey Orange |
| this thread needs more drugs. next time i'm consuming something, alcohol, i'm not sure. i can't freak out on a plane again. what if its worse next time? f*** that. |
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