Panic Attacks? What do you do for them?
started having panic attacks about 15 years ago. They have gotten worse over the years. I have been taking Xanax 1.5 mg and Zoloft 100 mg for about 8 years. I honestly could not function without the Xanax. It is a life saver! However; even with both meds I still have episodes almost everyday. I always get myself out of the situation in time tho before I have a full blown attack. I am so tired of living this way. I avoid restaurants and places that I know I might have one. I have been in therapy before but it didn’t seem to be helping. Does anyone have any advice for other treatment? I want so bad to live a normal life. I am tired of this disorder controlling me. I have even thought about hypnosis. Please help.
The problem is…I KNOW they are attacks and I KNOW there is no real anger. Believe me I have tried everything. When I start having one I tell myself that nothing bad is going to happen and there is no danger around and that its just snother stupid attack. But it doesn’t go away…it isn’t as bad but it’s still there.
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Okay… I’m going to be straight up with you, and I know there is probably going to be like 32097502395320 replies like "EW THAT DUMB SLUT NEEDS TO STFU THAT DOESN’T HELP THAT ALL" etc etc etc
Listen; I started having panic attacks in fifth grade. They were so bad, a lot of them ended with me throwing up. It was so hard for me to breathe, I had horrible social anxiety, it was just BAD.
One thing helped me out
I started smoking weed
I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW
It’s "bad", it’s illgeal (which, yeah, I know is REALLY bad), but I am not kidding you when I say I feel so much better. I have had maybe three attacks within the past year, in comparison to having one every single day, its a big change. It really helped me out so much
Do some research and don’t just listen to all the bad stuff. Try to check out some of the positive effects of it because I can tell you it certainly changed my life.
If you want to get back to "normal", I think you need to start believing in yourself a bit more. You know (intellectually) that nothing bad is going to happen, but your body is trying to tell you differently. I am not qualified to say, but I don’t think the medication is helping much and you should go for a course of CBT with a really good practitioner and try to wean yourself off the drugs. I don’t know what happens for you when you have a "full blown attack", but I am sure that you do actually survive them – nothing bad happens, the sky does not fall down, you just need to believe that.
I am not in any way belittling your symptoms, I know how crippling they are for you. Try to go a little bit further each time and take control of them.
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When i have anxiety attacks i tell myself that im fine and nothing bad is going to happen to me, and that i’m in a safe place.
I always carry my ipod around so that if i do have an anxiety attack music seems to cool me down.
goodluck (L)
Antidepressant and anti-anxiety medications are the most commonly used medications for treating panic attacks.
Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) have been used to treat panic disorders for more than 40 years. These include imipramine, which has been studied the best, desipramine and nortriptyline. However, TCAs have largely been replaced by newer antidepressants called serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SRIs), which include paroxetine, fluoxetine, sertraline, fluvoxamine, citalopram and venlafaxine.
The SRIs are effective antidepressants and anti-anxiety agents. The popularity of SRIs is due partly to the fact that they cause fewer side effects that the TCAs.
Benzodiazepines are anti-anxiety medications used to treat panic and other anxiety disorders. These medications can cause physical dependence and produce withdrawal symptoms, so they should be prescribed only for people who cannot tolerate or who do not respond to SRIs or TCAs. Alprazolam is the best-studied benzodiazepine, but clonazepam (another benzodiazepine) also has been used to treat panic disorder because it is longer acting, requires less frequent doses, and causes fewer withdrawal symptoms than alprazolam.
Both antidepressants and benzodiazepines work because they block the panic attack. Some people with panic disorder say the medications "put a lid" on their attacks. They can feel the attack coming, but instead of having a full-blown attack, the feeling is blocked or controlled. Medications can block panic attacks and decrease a person’s fear of having another attack (called anticipatory anxiety). That fear also improves when the person with panic disorder repeatedly puts himself or herself in the feared situation until confident that an attack will not occur.
See here: http://www.fightingpanicattacks.com/