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    Today I was in math class and toward the end I started to feel like my chest was tight, my heart felt like it was beating faster and I felt a little warm. I felt like I wanted to leave and go home right then and there. So, I'm home now and I don't know what caused that feeling but it didn't feel good. I haven't been too stressed out lately yet I did get a stress knot on my head again.

    Ehh what a wierd uneasy I just wanna go home and be alone feeling. Does this happen to anyone else?
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    Default Re: Wierd feelings

    sounds like a classic anxiety attack.

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    yeah, panic attack. thats exactly what it sounds like.

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    It SORT of sounds like that "anxiety attack" (I think that's what it was) that I had a couple of months ago... minus the pain in the chest and the shaking.

    I haven't had the "I need to go home NOW" feeling for a long time... but I got them a lot when I was a full time student and stuck on campus for hours on end.
    If you think school is hard, try being stupid.

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    ditto ditto and ditto...definatly sounds like a panic/anxiety attack

    gah, i hate those!





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    Totally a panic attack. I get them too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bella21 View Post
    I haven't had the "I need to go home NOW" feeling for a long time... but I got them a lot when I was a full time student and stuck on campus for hours on end.
    ugh.. i get them all the time. sometimes i just want to scream. im screaming in my head a lot these days, haha.

    man, that sounds so crazy.

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    :/ It was such a shitty feeling I was really hoping it was something else like heart burn. My teacher was talking about some stuff I didn't understand using all these new math terms.. I just don't understand how something so small could make me feel so weird like that.
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    you know, there is a special kind specifically called math anxiety!

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    It absolutely sounds like a panic attack. When I had my first, years ago, I was baffled and terrified. I went to the ER only to have them kindly smirk and hand me a xanax.

    I really hope that you don't have to "get used to" this feeling, and that you never have one again, but if you do, remind yourself that it's in your mind and that it will pass.

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    i hate those things .. i get them all the time... the are not hard to control..try to educate yourself on them and i ll make it easier on you if you ever get one again..
    just remember , if it ever happens again there is nothing physically wrong with you.. you are just having a panic attack.try to regulate your breathing . it helps to calm you.. i have even used a paper bag trick before : ) feel free to ask more ? of you like

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    Definitely a panic attack. I used to get them, really bad ones often.

    Just as siberianbeauty said, educate yourself about them and when you feel yourself having one again, take slow deep breaths - and tell yourself that it's "only" a panic attack.

    Once I realized that they are contollable, I stopped getting them as often. But when I did, I was able to stop it from escalating.
    You'll be okay hun!

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    It could be a hot flash. I get them too. And NO you do not have to be going through menopause to get them.


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    panic attacks are typically accompanied by the thought "gotta get out of here." You have my sympathy; I had one during an extremely challenging (ie: hard as fuck) class. They suck.


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    you know, those of you that make it sound so easy to cope with them I'd really like to hear more. I've been through a ton of counseling and consider myself fairly well educated on the subject. I can clearly recognize when I'm having an episode and take steps in an attempt to keep myself centered and grounded. But honestly, I don't think it helps much. I'm still pretty much immobilized and useless. Certainly I have a look of terror on my face. Sometimes (rarely) I can't even write. I just have to sit there, useless, unable to get up and walk away.

    Please, elaborate on how you cope. (I'm hoping for non-med ideas)


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    I used to get them a lot, and I mean they would wake me out of my sleep, talk about shitty! If you start getting one, ask to go to the bathroom, take a walk outside for a bit and really pay attention to how you are feeling, what you were around when you felt it, how that panic felt when it started, and pay attention to how it blows up and then calms down. It's sounds stupid, but that's how I've been able to calm myself down from them. I would have the total half side of my body become paralyzed from them, and I mean like a stroke. The hospitals did MRI's and such, but nothing is wrong with me, just panic attacks. But now that I know, mine starts with a burning inside my body, from my core (uterus), and climbs to my eyes, if I can catch it before it reaches my eyes, I can handle it right there in the room. If I miss it and it reaches my eyes, I'm outside chewing peppermint gum feelings like something is going to kill me.
    For me I have to visualize my inner body pushing that fire down again to my core and snuffing it out. And that helps me. Once you learn how to control it, it'll become some annoying stupid thing that comes up now and then.
    And sometimes, they can happen after a stressful event, right out of the blue.

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    Sorry I wrote that before seeing your concern LSM!!

    What have the counsellors said? Mine's taken me years to figure out how to deal with it, and the drugs made it worse, like I would start to have them and be hospitalized from the stupid fact I ate and felt full. Apparently, food became my enemy on those damn drugs. I guess each person is different, I've been dealing with mine for 12 years now (I'm 24) and I never got counselling for them. I guess since I got them so much, and the doctors kept telling me nothing is wrong with my body, I had no choice but to deal with it as panic. So I've watched it myself. I logged my feelings and what happened in a journal to track similarities. And for the most part, I just tried different things until I found some that worked, and I've stuck to them since. I still carry peppermint gum, only Trident, not the tablets kind either, the stick gum. And that's the only kind I can have when one strikes. I'm telling you it's really dumb sounding, but for me, if that's the only thing I can hang on to when one strikes, for God's sake I'm doing it!
    I am much better now, but I used to be quite obsessive over how things had to be done in order to "prevent" panic attacks. I had my whole ritual and it would take me an hour and half to get to sleep because I had to "perform" it every night. And it was out of fear from them. All I can suggest is listen to your body, and your environment. I really don't know except to share my experience and how I've learned to deal with them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LoveSexMoney View Post
    you know, those of you that make it sound so easy to cope with them I'd really like to hear more. I've been through a ton of counseling and consider myself fairly well educated on the subject. I can clearly recognize when I'm having an episode and take steps in an attempt to keep myself centered and grounded. But honestly, I don't think it helps much. I'm still pretty much immobilized and useless. Certainly I have a look of terror on my face. Sometimes (rarely) I can't even write. I just have to sit there, useless, unable to get up and walk away.

    Please, elaborate on how you cope. (I'm hoping for non-med ideas)
    i do brush them off when i talk about them, and say "oh yeah i'm going to have a panic attack over that, har de har" haha.. but thats because if i freak out and take it *too* seriously it will only make it worse. making light of it helps for me. when i have them, i seriously break down. there's nothing i CAN do other than wait it out. but then, i never have them where i can't walk away from something like you said. i get up and leave class (though that causes more panic) or i go in the dressing room at work or something.

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    That's crazy TM, I think I started having anxiety attacks recently too.. Last night even...I was about to get ready for work and I just felt wrong. I got really hot, and flustered, and kept wlaking around my house like I was looking for something and didn't know what it was, and I wanted to curl up in my bed under the covers and run outside as far as I could all at the same time. Honestly, I had this vision of myself as some crazy lady running around mumbling to herself with wide scared eyes. I looked at myself, and I looked normal, but seriosuly it's how I felt.

    The center of my body just felt so weird, not even sure how to explain it, it was nutty...So I sat out in my backyard, snuggled with my doggy and smoked a cig and just talked to myself (internally mind you! )

    Do you think things like this are more common at a certain age? Is there a certain stress level that triggers it or is it too random for all that? And how controlable is it? Because I seriously don't want to be one of thsoe women who starts talking to herself and freaking out in the middle of the grocery store!




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    Quote Originally Posted by ExoticEngineer View Post

    Do you think things like this are more common at a certain age? Is there a certain stress level that triggers it or is it too random for all that? And how controlable is it? Because I seriously don't want to be one of thsoe women who starts talking to herself and freaking out in the middle of the grocery store!
    Well if you see me doing that in the frozen foods section just keep walking by. Seriously, just as you were feeling, that thing in your gut, just feels awful. After I posted this thread, I curled up on my couch clutching my pillow for awhile until I felt "ok" to leave the couch. I think triggers for it are different for everyone. Hell, I was just sitting in class listening to all these new math terms and it started to set in.

    I'm sure the amount of stress I put on myself to keep my now A in my pre-calc class doesn't help. At least now I can recognize it and try to mentally remove myself from those feelings. As much as I liked the feeling of calm on xanax I don't want to have to take it for these feelings.
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    well the hardest thing for me to deal with is that most people around me have never had one and my bfriend helps me a lot to get through them. i was in vegas last week . i woke up having trouble breething because of allergies. i started to have a panic attack right away. a really scary one because i didn;t know where the hospital is if it gets worse.. i woke my dude up. and said i was freaking out. he started smiling to make me feel comfortable. and telling me it s just in my head and i will go away, helping me breathe. made me feel better. but i always wonder if he ever thinks that i am a mental freak. he says no. but i just feel like it s a strange decease that fucks your life up, but you can;t see it. and i hate meds/ i am trying to ween off my meds.
    i know i can manage it and live! but i wish i didnt have to live with it. .
    definaly makes me feel better to know that i am not the only one . that there is more out there.

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    I am back on the horrific train of panic attacks. I think mine might be drug related. I was on an out-patient treatment to help ween me off of valium two and a half years ago. I ended up taking an old school anti-depressant called Trazadone for my insomnia.

    It has worked great. Until the last six months. I had been noticing that if I had a big event or a full day the following day, I couldn't sleep, so I started taking tiny amounts of valium w/ the trazadone.

    Also, I used to be a heavy esspresso drinker and within the last year of more, I have switched to drinking more tea than coffee and it has agreed w/ me.

    Well, in the last month, I have had two-while I was driving TM,I don't get the pain in my chest, I get numbness on my left side, shortness of breath and a sort of blurry tunnel like vision. They both happened on way to work on the freeway. I just kept thinking that if I focused, I wouldn't crash and hurt myself or anyone else. Luckily, my management is really supportive and I called in and they had a cold beer for me right when i got in the club and let me chill in the office until it was over.

    The other one happened last night and a bunch of regs were there wanting to talk and hug and all I could think about was getting that Corona. But just one. Then I had to go into the office and chill again for 15 or 20 mins. The one thing I did do different is drink a Grande Cappucino, which I NEVER do anymore and I bought esspresso roast for the morning, thinking I could handle one a day. Since I'm still panicky, I guess not.

    To all of you that are going through this: I so feel you! I should be happy right now! I'm making really good money for LA and I am sticking to my goals and I am pretty much a healthy person, but damn

    I guess all we can do if find a way to deal. Whether its smoking a cig w/ your doggy or chewing a stick of pepperming gum. I going to quit the coffee and I just spoke to my Doc and he asked me to try upping my trazadone (I've been on the smallest amount). I'm sorry it's so long. My man is away for his work and my BFF keeps trying to sell me on medical marijuana, so that's her advice I was just nearly in tears and had no-one to talk to.

    It's hard to understand: I'm the woman who traveled third world country for months , alone with no transportation but buses and who has snowborded the tops of mountains and pass up highschool guys!! I should be fearless, damn it

    Good luck to all of you who deal with this. (Leaves to go into bathroom to take some Trazdone).
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    If not a panic attack, it could just be too much coffee or red bull getting to you. I get that yucky feeling whenever I have strong coffee on an empty stomach.

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