Comments on: Celebrities Cope with Panic Attacks

By: Linda Park

Linda Park — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 18:51:10 +0000

Worth Your Time…

Fascinating story, slightly off the topic, nevertheless seriously worth taking a look…

By: I Want To Be A Normal Person

I Want To Be A Normal Person — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 04:59:23 +0000

Hi, I get panic attacks when I am eating, I am a very picky eater and when I am at a resterant or cafateria I feel like every one is starring at me… I no it sounds really weird, but then I eat really slow because my stomach hurts. I feel fine when eating at my house though. And when I’m with my friends I’m always the last one eating and they think I have a eating disorder. And it’s really aakward. Please Help!

By: YOUR STORYS INSPIRE ME

YOUR STORYS INSPIRE ME — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 04:47:13 +0000

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. ‘…You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

I hope yoh liked this quote

? Vern

By: My fear is holding me stillborn

My fear is holding me stillborn — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:08:18 +0000

Life was good
before I
had

a panic attack

So you want to know all about me. Who

I am

You want to hear the whole story. Why

I am constantly fearing the day ahead.

Getting one, everything changes.

Some might call it distorted reality,

but that’s exactly what it is.

Alone,

there is only the person inside.

trapped in your own mind

your mind of thoughts and worries.

I remember

the day I first

got an attack,

the day my life

would change
forever

I wonder

when i first noticed

the kayos inside my

mind

The inhuman feeling

will forever be trapped in there

some might say that i am crazy

there right i worry way to much.

Thoughts bulleted

in my brain, ricocheting

rational side to irrational side,

fear or no fear.

Alone? Yeah, right.

I had my mind to keep me compony.

And you want to shout,

can’t you see

I’m here?

can’t you see I’m
fine

I don’t need this anxiety,
this constant pressure
this tension that strikes whenever
this life, fear, curiosity.

THAT IS MY DAILY LIFE…

By: Kim

Kim — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:13:49 +0000

Hi I’m Kim, I’m 23, I’ve had my first panic attack when I was 17, it suddenly came up from nowhere, everyone was in panic, I just cried and cried and cried, I was even sent to ER, My dad has been with me with this battle, I was always scared, and I thought that I’ll be like this forever, and that thought made me really upset. My dad asked me to do several tests in the hospital and thank GOD I was absolutely okay. My dad told me that I should always take good care of myself and to get over this anxiety. Unfortunately, something not good happened last year, Feb 5, 2010, I was surprised when everyone picked me up from work and told me that we need to go somewhere, they were crying, and so I was like, ‘what happened?’ we went to the hospital then and they told me that my dad was sent there and undergone an operation..I did not cry, I was in shock, It’s painful, everyone was scared to go in the ICU and see the condition of my dad, I was the first one to get in, I wasn’t scared, that time then I don’t know what to fear anymore. They were all amazed with all my strength; I saw everything, everything, and everything! Imagine how might a person in an ICU look like, a month passed, and my dad left us, I was just always beside him and sang the songs he liked, talked to him, even made a banner. My anxiety attack was gone! Then after a year, I had depression, due to my dad’s death, it came back, then I told myself, I should not be scared, my dad told me not too, and GOD is with me…so one time when I was on the bus, I felt it coming, I told myself, bring it on, bring it on! I’m not scared, and you know what it worked well to me…plus, I read and research how to cure this…and thank GOD I’m getting better…I’ll pray for everyone and don’t give up, GOD will never let us down, in fact, this will help us to be even better…Faith in GOD and Faith in ourselves are what we need..We don’t need to live with this, we must overcome it…I’ll pray for everyone..Be guided by GOD and thank you very much for reading!
Kim ^_^

By: allison

allison — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 09:30:00 +0000

annalise, i read your message and was deeply saddened by what you wrote. i know panic attacks are truly terrible but they will not hurt you and you can recover. there is a book out there, called hope and help for your nerves by claire weekes, that has truly saved my life. i used to have such debilitating anxiety i couldnt even leave my bed and almost lost everything because of it. i found out about this book and was completely stunned at how well it described everything i was feeling. the book states that no matter how long or severely you have suffered you can recover. i followed everything in the book and i can honestly say my panic attacks and anxiety are compleyely gone. please read this book because it maybe the answer you are looking for. dont ever give up on life because there is always hope!

By: BELIEVE

BELIEVE — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 02:19:41 +0000

Hello! I have read everyones story on here and it has surely inspired me! I have started to go to therapy and oh my goodness! Why didn’t I want to do this earlier? WOW! I was so amazed about how much it has helped me! I used to get one every day at school and now I only get a panic attack once every month. It was a huge improvement! Just think happy thoughts of your favorite thing to do. Like going to the beach and the sand castles and the sand and the water and that helps me. Or imagine its Christmas time and all your family and gifts! It really works. Believe me, I have been running these same images in my head for two years and i rarely get one now. It’s still hard for me to go in cars and go to school or go to the dentist but i am doing better.

Words of Inspiration: BELIEVE, IF YOU CAN DREAM IT YOU CAN DO IT, REPLACE THE FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN WITH CURIOSITY, AND KNOW THAT YOUR NOT ALONE!

By: cheyenne

cheyenne — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:23:36 +0000

hi everyone i have been suffering with panic attacks and anxiety for 4yrs now. The firt one was the most frightning i ended up in the hospital thinking i was going to die .the doctor told me that it was a bad sinus infection and prescribed antibiotics for it , i left the hospital feeling a bit better but when i returned home the panic hit me again, i phoned the hosoital and asked to talk to the doctor and told him what was happening to me ,he then told me it was a panic attack and if i relaxed it would go away ! i was in that state for 6weeks i could not eat and lost over 3 stone in weight iwas so frightened i was going to die it totally took over my whole life i have 5 children, at the time my 3 younger children needed me the youngest had just turned 2 i felt so ashamed of myself because i could not be a mother to them ,there father was amazing he took my roll over as well as his own, i hit rock bottom even though my reason for been so unwell was the fear of dying ,i felt like i just couldn’t go on, so i made up my mind to end my life ,but been so unsure how to do it ,i decided to phone the phyciatric hospital the doctor on call told me to go to my gp and get a referal letter to see a doc at the hospital to put a long story short i did all that i spent thousands and nothing worked and still doesn’t ive just learned to live with it and accept it when it comes but i know that its me that makes it happen .why ! i dont know , it does get easier .GOD BLESS

By: Cindy on Union Square NY

Cindy on Union Square NY — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 12:06:58 +0000

A dear friend of ours, homebound with her panic disorder and on medication, was recovering from one such episode..and next door, a fire broke out at the home of a neighbor who had gone to the market. Shirl knew they had a little girl, who was about five. And the mom had walked around the corner, leaving her daughter alone for such a short time. Well, the fire was in the kitchen, electrical as it turned out, but Shirl heard the little girl screaming for help. Without any thought whatever, she jumped up, still in her bathrobe and slippers, ran outside, bashed in the front glass on the neighbor’s kitchen door, and opened it, running in and pulling the little girl to safety. The fire engines at that point were already roaring down the street, and the minor fire, mostly causing lots of smoke and badly frightening one young child was soon extinguished. It wasn’t until then that Shirl realized fully what she had done. The urgency of the emergency caused her to put her fears ‘on hold’ in a sense, and she had only one thought: save the little girl! Needless to say her panic attacks were never viewed by her in the same way. Does she still have them? Yes..they are indeed real; no one is suggesting they are manufactured. But, there are some elements to anxiety disorder that are mysterious indeed. This act of heroism gave Shirl, and her Doctors a fresh view of her particular condition. And needless to say, she made two lifelong friends next door. And won many new admirers on the street!

By: HOPEFUL

HOPEFUL — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 07:21:30 +0000

hello everyone, this is for Maria, i read your post from Oct.2010. you said you overcame panic….thats wonderful…please give more details as to

how you overcame panic thanks