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Please help me, what is wrong with me?
Please help me.
On November 8 at midnight I had a panic attack. I started feeling a bit tingly in my stomach or something and I saw black dots in my eyes and I thought I was going to die.
I obviously survived from the panic attack but ever since I have felt so weird. Even now I keep thinking I'm not going to live much longer. I've felt so.. weird? But it's like a bad weird. I kinda feel like I am playing a computer game that I have been playing for months and it is really boring now.
I really don't know how to explain it but now I am so nervous but I just give up. I have the weird feeling still and sometimes I will even smell weird smells that aren't there. I've had this since Nov 8, 2007 and I still feel like none of this is real and I'm actually in a dream.
Please help me, I want my life back! I am really scared, I just want to be normal again!
Brendan
On November 8 at midnight I had a panic attack. I started feeling a bit tingly in my stomach or something and I saw black dots in my eyes and I thought I was going to die.
I obviously survived from the panic attack but ever since I have felt so weird. Even now I keep thinking I'm not going to live much longer. I've felt so.. weird? But it's like a bad weird. I kinda feel like I am playing a computer game that I have been playing for months and it is really boring now.
I really don't know how to explain it but now I am so nervous but I just give up. I have the weird feeling still and sometimes I will even smell weird smells that aren't there. I've had this since Nov 8, 2007 and I still feel like none of this is real and I'm actually in a dream.
Please help me, I want my life back! I am really scared, I just want to be normal again!
Brendan
Hi,
I have OCD, Depression, and panic/anxiety attacks.
Is this the first one you have had? If so the thats probably why you feel so weird. When I first started hvaving them I was driving with my newborn, at the time, in the car and I almost crashed into a building. Let me tell you it was very scary feeling sick, felt like your heart was going to come out of your chest, and that's just a few symptoms. You also feel like things are like a movie or not real and your watching and not really sure what's going on. I felt weird for days later and I started having then several times a week and some were several times a day. Now you do need to go talk to a Dr. and get meds. I promise when the right med is found then you will feel better and they will lessen and you will start feeling normal again. I sympathize with you and you are in my thoughts. If you have any questions or would like to know more about my symptoms and such just let me know.
I have OCD, Depression, and panic/anxiety attacks.
Is this the first one you have had? If so the thats probably why you feel so weird. When I first started hvaving them I was driving with my newborn, at the time, in the car and I almost crashed into a building. Let me tell you it was very scary feeling sick, felt like your heart was going to come out of your chest, and that's just a few symptoms. You also feel like things are like a movie or not real and your watching and not really sure what's going on. I felt weird for days later and I started having then several times a week and some were several times a day. Now you do need to go talk to a Dr. and get meds. I promise when the right med is found then you will feel better and they will lessen and you will start feeling normal again. I sympathize with you and you are in my thoughts. If you have any questions or would like to know more about my symptoms and such just let me know.
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What you describe is consistent with panic and anxiety, but, was this your FIRST episode? And you will find a pervasive "strangeness" to everything after it occurs -sort of like crossing an invisible boundary. Indeed, the world has become, suddenly, very different. Everyone finds it difficult to put into words.
Highly unlikely this will kill you, and let me give you the "drill" as most of us know it:
1. Go to your doc, get tests to rule out some organic, physical source such as heart, lung problems, brain malfunction, etc. Vitrually everyone comes back with a clean bill of health in this regard. Panic attacks probably are more responsible for very thorough work-ups than anything else -that's one good thing, you'll learn there's "nothing wrong with you."
2. Once there is a solid medical indication of panic/anxiety as such, a drug may be prescribed to help you handle the feelings, so you can function. Too many people stop at this stage, thinking (or hoping) that the medication will somehow magically make the cause of the panic disappear. That CAN happen in cases of short-term panic which may be easily related to some external cause (a plane flight, speaking publically, death of a loved one, etc.) but what's really going on is that the cause itself "goes away." Otherwise, if the prime mover is more deeply rooted, you'll benefit from
3. Therapy. Talking it out and such mental gymnastics as a qualified provider may offer, in combination with appropriate medication- is the best way to not only deal with symptoms, but also causes.
The work, the, job, the task is done solely by YOU. Everything else, from friends to forum members to doctors to medications are in helper roles. That why it works and that why you KNOW it works -you actually did it.
And, you've made a good start. You're here. Now -please consider the 3 steps I have given above -and stay in touch.
What you describe is consistent with panic and anxiety, but, was this your FIRST episode? And you will find a pervasive "strangeness" to everything after it occurs -sort of like crossing an invisible boundary. Indeed, the world has become, suddenly, very different. Everyone finds it difficult to put into words.
Highly unlikely this will kill you, and let me give you the "drill" as most of us know it:
1. Go to your doc, get tests to rule out some organic, physical source such as heart, lung problems, brain malfunction, etc. Vitrually everyone comes back with a clean bill of health in this regard. Panic attacks probably are more responsible for very thorough work-ups than anything else -that's one good thing, you'll learn there's "nothing wrong with you."
2. Once there is a solid medical indication of panic/anxiety as such, a drug may be prescribed to help you handle the feelings, so you can function. Too many people stop at this stage, thinking (or hoping) that the medication will somehow magically make the cause of the panic disappear. That CAN happen in cases of short-term panic which may be easily related to some external cause (a plane flight, speaking publically, death of a loved one, etc.) but what's really going on is that the cause itself "goes away." Otherwise, if the prime mover is more deeply rooted, you'll benefit from
3. Therapy. Talking it out and such mental gymnastics as a qualified provider may offer, in combination with appropriate medication- is the best way to not only deal with symptoms, but also causes.
The work, the, job, the task is done solely by YOU. Everything else, from friends to forum members to doctors to medications are in helper roles. That why it works and that why you KNOW it works -you actually did it.
And, you've made a good start. You're here. Now -please consider the 3 steps I have given above -and stay in touch.
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