Worst Panic Attack I've Ever Had

[JEKBreatheandBelieve]

@Higgins, someday I would like to figure out if I have asthma, but I am pretty certain it would only be related to exercising in the cold or with high amounts of allergens in the air. I still feel (2 years later) that the attacks I described above were panic attacks, but I can see how similar they are. I've been to the ER several times during panic attacks. The last one that happened at the hospital was scary as my pulse went super high, higher than I even knew it could go and I could live. It's the altering physical reality that is a true sign of panic for me.

 

[Friday]

fun weekend and was able to accomplish so much and then as soon as I return home (well, a little while after that since no one was home when I got home), I fell that much apart.

Looking back a year or so later... Is this one of your patterns, do you think? Stress cup at capacity = panic attack?

(Big trip, first little thing, & kaboom! meltdown/blow-up = pretty classic).

Or was this one of those outliers, where usually you meltdown in different ways, and the panic attack in response to stress at capacity is still pretty rare?

 

[JEKBreatheandBelieve]

@Friday , yes and no. Something goes well, first little thing = meltdown is fairly common. The extent of the attacks I described in this thread were more severe. I am better able to prepare myself for changes and know that after a good event and using a lot of effort to do so, there is going to be a reaction/meltdown of some sort and I try to use skills to help. Still there is always some kind of meltdown, but not like those. I still have those ones, just not as frequently.

 

[Higgins]

@Higgins, someday I would like to figure out if I have asthma, but I am...

Hey. Yep, was just something I was throwing out there. Whatever you need to do for you and whatever works for you!

Sending you support.

 

[heyheyhey]

I know this is an old thread, but just wanted to send you a big hug! I hope you got into the treatment program that you wanted to.