I’m 14 and I had my first full-blown panic attack at the end of April, and I had another one a week later. Since then I have been terrified of having another one.My fear of panic attacks keeps getting worse because I’m worried that I’ll have one and I won’t know what to do. Also I’ve found myself worrying about EVERYTHING!! I worry about having a panic attack anywhere I go, whether it’s going somewhere by myself or with friends or family.

In one week, I’m taking a short trip with my older cousin for a few days. She doesn’t know about my panic attacks, and I’m really getting nervous about going because I’m afraid I’ll get panicky and won’t be able to ’snap out of it’.

Can you help me with this, please?
Also, do you have any tips on what to do if I were to have a panic attack? Like ways to distract myself or something?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Tags: cousin, fear, few days, panic attack, Panic Attacks, short trip, thanks in advance

After attending the wake of my cousin I assumed I was fine. 3 weeks later, this monday night, I started having intense anxiety. I come home and cry and mainly feel nausea. The anxiety is so bad, it has made me lose my appetite. It’s interfering with my entire life right now, my parents and my boyfriend are extremely worried.

Are there any treatments I can use to help myself?

Tags: appetite, cousin, intense anxiety, monday night, nausea, parents

I am 18 and suffering anxiety due to smoking pot two years ago. I had smoked for a while when I was 16 and I quit for 2 or 3 weeks but one day I didn’t want to go to work so I decided to smoke at a relatives of mine because I completely dread going to my after school job. All I can remember was me smoking and I was on my way out to go work anyway. I was about to leave and then this feeling came over me like I was going to die. I was completely confused and I thought I was going to faint or go insane. My cousin told me to calm down and took me the room and I felt as though the room walls would cave on me. I didn’t know what to think. I went to help my cousin make some coffee and I completely forgot how to make it! I was so confused and unreal. The unreal feelings scared me the most because I felt like everything in a arm distance was a mile away. I felt as though someone replaced cameras for my eyes and I was about to faint or die. My hearing was off as well. I felt as if I had cotton in my ears. This went on for 5 hours! Now I continue to feel numb and unreal. I am very afraid when I panic. I had these gigantic panic attacks like 4 times in the past year and every time they come I have an urge to call the ambulance.. I even embarrassed myself when I was at a fair when all the sudden I felt like I was going to die and he went to the near by paramedics. I forgot about my anxiety and was thinking I was sure I was going to die. I’m completely embarrassed to think of that now. I also had the worst derealization that night also. I felt like I was so numb and everything was a movie. I even ignored all my friends. I left with my younger sibling early and the ½ mile walk to my vehicle was hell! I thought at any moment I was going to pass out or die from an aneurysm. I hate these thoughts that creep in my life daily but that night made it so much worse. I am also afraid that I am hallucinating all of this. I really hate this feeling. I also have headaches and light headedness. I can’t seem to think these is all anxiety because of the physical symptoms. I gone to doctors and they don’t seem to care. One doctor told me to grow up because of my depressed feelings and other doctors don’t listen to me I have to repeat a lot of things because they don’t hear me the first time. I feel as though I have to have an attitude when I see the same doctors over again and every time I don’t get a good answer. I even had a panic attack and at the time I didn’t know what it was and the doctor said I had a nervous break down and gave me meds . I feel so down most of the time! I am constantly paranoid.. I need more help and what worries me most is the tingles in my head and I think I’ll die from an aneurysm!!!!! I’m going through so much and having this ruined my life. someone help.

Tags: ambulance, aneurysm, anxiety, cameras, coffee, cousin, derealization, ears, feelings, headaches, Panic Attacks, paramedics, relatives, room walls, school job, sibling, smoking pot, urge

I have no concentration at all, because im so worked up over my anxiety, that it doesnt let me focus and i get very nervous around people in my class.

Im trying to make my aunt understand that I am about this close to leave school or go to my conselours and tell them that I physically cant take any more day by myself in that school.

I get strong nausea, dizziness, tightness in my chest and feel lightheaded, and this pain all over….I feel so weak.
I mean, the more people around me in class the more I become nervous and i just get all this dizziness and stomach pain. I just physically have this everyday. I have this anxiety that I feel anxious about people every single day, even family members (except parents btu I dont live with them now) and that I become very anxious staring at a person in the eye. And this has become very painful for me everyday to the point I am skipping from school everyday because my physical symptoms just wont let me be able to stay, I feel sick everyday like I need to be in bed. So i skip for this reason, the thing is that im not sure my family understands why I started skipping. I always had good grdes, but now is like ive become that lonely,anti social girl in this school where i dont know anyone and everybody looks like you like you are a creature from another planet, it’s just very uncomfortable for me to be there as I have no one to rely on, and i think the relationship I have at home affects my anxiety more as I dont live with my parents and i used to fight with my stepdad and still argue often with my cousin and aunt, but now they understand me more because they know ive gotten anxiety of people.

This started 3 years ago….Please help me, I am considering taking medication and i am about to start Group therapy sessions for adolescents with anxiety (i am almost 18). So thats a step there.

thanks~
I must admit that there is something wrong with me, I cant say that i’m just "shy" cause I know thats not it. I am physically Really nervous, last time i thought i was gonna get a panic attacks.

Anxiety sufferer~
The nausea, anxiety, headaches, stomach ache, strong tightness in chest, palpitations and i get like I cant breathe everyday….It’s happening to me EVERY single day, at that school. I go for first class, and by then I just feel totally sick, but you see I dont wanna miss my grades I only have 1 month left of school, and it seems to me like neverending.
Please, Help! I really dont wanna be like this. I dotn wanna have anxiety.

Tags: 3 years, adolescents, anxiety, btu, concentration, cousin, dizziness, family members, group therapy sessions, medication, nausea, parents, relationship, single day, stepdad, stomach pain

I don’t want to sound stupid, but I’ve been in the emergency room 5 times within the last month for symptoms similar to heart attack. The first few times the doctors didn’t even want to look at me and told me that I was having panic attacks. Just the other day I was deeply in pain again and went and they did ekg x rays and all that. They said I was fine. I don’t understand. The pain has to be coming from somewhere. I don’t have a regular doctor because I don’t have insurance and can’t get none for at least four weeks. The pain is getting worse even though I’m trying to eat right… I’m 29 years old and watched my 22 year old cousin die of a heart attack so I know it can happen to me. The doctors aren’t doing a thorough search I believe… What should I say the next time I go in if there is a next time?

Tags: cousin, doctors, emergency room, heart attack, insurance, Panic Attacks, x rays

For about a year now I have suffered from rapid heart beat, feeling of dying, the feeling of choking or hard to shallow and a couple other symptoms. I have had every test my doctor and cardiologist can give me I believe. Stress test with that dye injected into me to view blood flow, ekg, echo cardiogram, halter monitor for 24 with symptoms recorded but no issues found. After all of that I still have the same damn symptoms. I have been introduced to the possibility of it being panic attacks and I do have at least 4 of the listed symptoms of a panic attack. I am a very laid back guy but I do have a stressful job, young children, looking to purchase a new home, money issues etc etc. My question is how do I get diagnosed and convince myself that I am not having a heart attack and maybe start to relax. I started to walk every day, i do on occasion do yoga and meditation breathing etc but that really is not my speed. What else can I do at this point except sit down on the couch and talk to a professional?

Also around a year ago my best friends dad died suddenly of a heart attack and I suffered the loss of a cousin to drowning while I was trying to save him. I know these two experiences have added to my symptoms.

Just to go a little deeper into my head I have always had a fear of crowded areas. Like in a restaurant I always look to see where the exit is and also the bathroom in case I get sick. I hated school for the same reasons and this also occurs at work every so often.

What are my next steps?

Tags: best friends, blood flow, couch, cousin, fear, friends dad, halter monitor, having a heart attack, heart attack, home money, laid back, meditation, money issues, Panic Attacks, rapid heart beat, shallow, stress test, stressful job, symptoms of a panic attack, yoga

i get panic attacks from spiders and such

i just passed by a wall, and when i came back i just noticed that there is a HUGE spider hanging right in front of it. and a smaller one in the corner.

i had a huge panic attack last weekend by two spiders as well, but i was alone. now, im in my brothers room and he and his cousin are downstairs and my aunts room is next door. i dont wanna have a panic attack but i already can feel my heart pounding much faster.

what to do?

Tags: aunts, cousin, downstairs, heart, panic attack, Panic Attacks, spiders