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Bad Day, Three Panic Attacks.

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GwenDR

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I'm at school today, and have classes from one o'clock until ten in the evening for classes. After my first class, I have a major panic attack with no obvious trigger.

I head to the woman's center to hand out and hide, and calm down. There's a counsellor was there who notices, gives me tea, and invites me to her office to talk. Really helped. I stay there at the center for an hour or two before resting, then I go eat at a place on campus.

After that, I need to go to the library's computer lab, but it's too crowded and I had to get out of there. I leave the lab and there's still people everywhere so I just leave the library and escape outdoors.

I hear three very loud explosive sounds: the opening to a loud rock song being performed live. I couldn't go back in and I couldn't be out in all the loud banging noise and music and hurry towards the often empty building my classes are in.

Past the fountain that's hissing out sprays of water. It sounds and feels like the flooding simulator, when there's sprays of water coming out of pipes all around you, and the room fills up with water, and you can't do anything but stand there because your paralyzed with fear every time you do the simulator.

I get to my building, and it's quiet and mostly empty. I hide in a chair on the third floor and rest, calming down finally.

And then someone in the room I'm just outside of starts screaming and cussing about something. I can't stand screaming. I think he was goofing around but I can't tell the difference. I just heard what the f*ck and mother f*cker and him just complaining about something. I can't handle screaming like that.

So I get away to another spot. It's okay so far. Class in thirty minutes, and it's a small one and my favorite. Three more hours, then I can go home.
 
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I'm at school today, and have classes from one o'clock until ten in the evening for classes. After...
Im glad you handled it by walking away. If that were me it would take every inch of my being to not wind them. No more yelling for sure. :speechless:

You'd think you can enclose loud music just to one block:banghead:. Ive done audio work and i know soundproofing an area doesnt take much time, effort, sometimes without extra materials.

Hate to hear you're surrounded by ignorance.
 
Appreciate it. It was meant to be a public performance for anyone in the area, rather than a closed off concert or anything. But as for going over there and yelling at someone? Not happening. The idea of doing that when I'm NOT having a panic attack terrifies me, and could potentially trigger a panic attack if I really thought I had to for some reason. I don't have a fight response, just flight.
 
It was meant to be a public performance for anyone in the area, rather than a closed off concert or anything.
Yeah, you're going to run into that at a college campus... I'm sorry. You were brave to come here and talk about your challenges. Did you find it helpful to post?
 
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