are they panicking about something

or is it just a general sense of panic

help me understand

6/20/2010 10:55:49 AM

All I know is that you can still post on TWW during them

6/20/2010 10:56:49 AM

yeah that's interesting

6/20/2010 10:58:02 AM

For me it was panicking initially about something in particular and it would spiral out of control. I think it depends on the person though.

6/20/2010 10:59:35 AM

lol.

my doctor is fairly certain i'm having an intense adrenaline rush.
totally biological.
not stress induced.

the reason i can post on tdub is because i know im having one and therefore know im not going to die.



i basically came on here to take my mind off of it

[Edited on June 20, 2010 at 11:00 AM. Reason : sfdfdsf]

6/20/2010 11:00:21 AM

one time my heart raced for about thirty seconds, it was hard to breathe, and I felt slightly nauseous

this was right after I was a big dummy and said something unintentionally cruel to a coworker in the elevator

was that a mini panic attack?

are anxiety and panic the same thing?

[Edited on June 20, 2010 at 11:04 AM. Reason : h]

6/20/2010 11:04:16 AM

^that sounds like one!

and ive heard that panic attacks and anxiety attacks are not the same in the medical community.
not sure of the difference though.

someone find that

6/20/2010 11:08:22 AM

I will have a moment of being light headed when I want to say something mean to someone...I don't think it's a panic attack though.

I think I have only had one in my life and it was for no reason at all, I was just standing there and I was fine and then all of a sudden I thought I was going to faint and I felt jumpy and I needed to get away from everyone and chill out.

6/20/2010 11:10:48 AM

I actually had not seen the "help" thread in chit chat when I created this thread

it answers a lot of my questions

6/20/2010 11:19:19 AM

the human brain is pretty fucking weird

normalcy is mostly a bogus narrative people project over their memories

6/20/2010 11:22:01 AM

^^hahaha really????

6/20/2010 11:31:14 AM

it could be about something; what really sucks is when one panics about the uncomfortableness of panicing; those are hard to stop.

6/20/2010 11:33:35 AM

^^ yeah I had only seen your one post in the lounge beach challenge thread

6/20/2010 12:14:52 PM

I suffer from a panic disorder.

I can be sitting watching television or driving down the road and then all of a sudden this weird hot-cold feeling will wash over me, my heart will start racing, and I have trouble breathing. It comes from out of the blue and there's nothing specific that I am panicking over -- other than the fact that I use to be convinced that the panic attack would kill me via a heart attack or stroke.

6/20/2010 12:58:06 PM

It is my understanding that anxiety attacks are generally less severe and shorter lived than panic attacks.

6/20/2010 2:25:22 PM

from what I know/have heard/seen it's

Quote :

"or is it just a general sense of panic"

6/20/2010 3:36:46 PM

only women "get" them, thus they are not real.

/thread

6/20/2010 3:37:57 PM

LOL SEXISM!

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"are they panicking about something or is it just a general sense of panic"

Sort of both.
The underlying cause is usually some kind of stress, often post-traumatic. And one usually doesn't realize that that's what they're panicking about, because the panic attack manifests as a [intense] general sense of panic, and often at seeminly random times. Hence the typical psychotherapy story where someone learns that they "never really got over" some past stress, and that's why they've been suffering from "mental illness". After changing the way they think about that stressor, they're "cured". (easier said than done)

6/20/2010 3:47:06 PM

I've had a few small "panic attacks" in the past... It feels like sudden rush of urgency/adrenaline inside of me that I can't control... I've had 2 or 3 panic attacks when I was older, though I don't remember now what was going on to cause them.

6/20/2010 4:08:41 PM