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Aggravating Aftermath...

About a year ago I was brutally assaulted by my boyfriend of almost a year and for months after we broke up he constantly stalked me and harassed me; including an incident at which he attacked me in a back hallway at school (im seventeen). Shortly after we broke up however I started getting this really awful pain in my stomach like cramping or spasming and discomfort in my chest that felt like I was having an asthma attack (i dont have asthma but i do have heart and lung complications) when I go out in public. Its almost like my brain sets off a trip wire and no matter how safe or sane the situation, my body still reacts as if it were in danger. People said it was just panic attacks but it got worse and i ended up dropping out of high school (i got my GED and am currently attending community college, so dont worry) and now its gotten so bad that I can't even leave the house or have anyone over without it occuring. I was just wondering if there was any possibility of it having a connection with what happened or if maybe its something totally unrelated. I'm open to any information you might have or any feedback you'd like to give. Thanks :]
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I am sorry you had this happen to you, like many others it is hard to undo, whilst you will never forget what happened to you, you have to determine that you have the rest of your life ahead and you need to get to the point whre you accept that it did indeed happen to you, put it away and move on. I do believe that some therapy is always in order as you can speak it out and get help that way. I also have some tricks that can work if you persevere ...Very often it is our thoughts and only our thoughts that make us feel bad, Its Impossible to experience any negative feeling without first creating a negative corresponding thought, The truth is ,our thinking will always create the reality we percieve,when we are stressed we are thinking stressed thoughts. Digest that.  I do believe also we can get many physical symptoms when we let our thoughts ,the negative ones rule us. Next time you feel that anxious out of control creeping up on you, Distract your self do not let the thoughts take you back to those distressing , times you had,Focus on what you are doing, talk to a friend, read, play music, tell your self ' Nothing is happening ,I am okay, I will feel better soon'   Good luck   there is a great book out there with all this in it, called 'Slowing Down to the Speed of life' By Richard Carlson
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