Prayer request...

[Miss Shelby]

It realy works, the capscun in peppers burns your taste bud so your brian singals the realese of Endorphins

You missed your calling in life Aaron, you should have gone to medical school.

Michelle

 

[geocajun]

Endorphins rule!

 

[Aaron-Aggie]

Endorphins rule!

yep natural highs can be a good thing when your down

 

[KC Catholic]

It just depends. They're usually pretty short, but it is a feeling of sheer terror and you have no idea where it comes from. Sometimes they're about a minute, sometimes up to ten.

There is no way to really describe it but the best way I have ever heard it put is to imagine that you are on an airplane and you learn that the engines have gone out and you have about two minutes before you die. It's like what you'd feel in that moment, and more. Compound that with the fact that you have no idea what brought it on and where it comes from.. and well, let's just say that when I said I wouldn't wish them on my worst enemy, I wasn't kidding.

Michelle

Good description Michelle. I would add I sometimes get a major urge to run away, get away from wherever I am at although there is usually nothing to cause the "fight or flight" feeling. And there is nothing like getting them in the middle of a meeting, walking to receive communion or while driving.

I pray for all those who suffer - you're not alone and you're not crazy.

Peace.

 

[Greeter]

I have only heard a few people mention them before and wasn't aware men could have them as well.

If you suffer from panic attacks, does that also mean you suffer from the "normal" continuous anxiety?

 

[Miss Shelby]

If you suffer from panic attacks, does that also mean you suffer from the "normal" continuous anxiety?

I don't. I haven't had one this bad in months. Like last spring. And I don't experience continual anxiety. Well my kids can drive me nuts but that's just an excuse.

Michelle

 

[Greeter]

I don't. I haven't had one this bad in months. Like last spring. And I don't experience continual anxiety. Well my kids can drive me nuts but that's just an excuse.

Michelle

Does that mean you can't take the regular medicine for it? I always thought it wild that most of the drugs that are supposed to help with anxiety and depression also can have side effects of anxiety and depression.

 

[AudreyWhite]

Good description Michelle. I would add I sometimes get a major urge to run away, get away from wherever I am at although there is usually nothing to cause the "fight or flight" feeling. And there is nothing like getting them in the middle of a meeting, walking to receive communion or while driving.

I pray for all those who suffer - you're not alone and you're not crazy.

Peace.

Thank you, K C Catholic
I thought I was both alone and crazy

 

[Miss Shelby]

Good description Michelle. I would add I sometimes get a major urge to run away, get away from wherever I am at although there is usually nothing to cause the "fight or flight" feeling. And there is nothing like getting them in the middle of a meeting, walking to receive communion or while driving.

I pray for all those who suffer - you're not alone and you're not crazy.

Peace.

Yes! I was just thinking about this today. I sometimes get the urge, in the midst of one, to run away, and there have been times when I actually have gotten up and run outside...and then I think...what am I doing? I cannot run from this, I can't run from myself.

One technique that is good in the midst of a panic attack is to just tell yourself that no one in history has ever died from one, you've lived through them many times before, and you will get through this one as well. That kind of self talk technique I found in the book called 'The Anxiety Cure' by Archibald Hart.

Michelle

 

[ukok]

Michelle, you are in my prayers buddy!

And if you are a nut, then that makes two of us, because i have suffered from panic attacks for a looong time. I have totally irrational thoughts, and sometimes i have such a complex that everyone knows that i am thinking them! It's made worse now because of the asthma, it really is very frustrating and i get quite short tempered with my children sometimes when i feel myself 'losing it'.... for no reason at all, i suddenly want to be somewhere else, usually it is when i am in a busy place and i just start getting out of breath and panicking and wishing i was home!

Feels like i'm going to have a heart attack most times, usually it's the asthma that makes me feel like that, but i do sympathise, they don't happen too often, but i hate it how they come out of nowhere.

I pray that through God's grace you will be able to overcome this debilitating problem.

God Bless you, michelle.

 

[Miss Shelby]

Michelle, you are in my prayers buddy!

And if you are a nut, then that makes two of us, because i have suffered from panic attacks for a looong time. I have totally irrational thoughts, and sometimes i have such a complex that everyone knows that i am thinking them! It's made worse now because of the asthma, it really is very frustrating and i get quite short tempered with my children sometimes when i feel myself 'losing it'.... for no reason at all, i suddenly want to be somewhere else, usually it is when i am in a busy place and i just start getting out of breath and panicking and wishing i was home!

Feels like i'm going to have a heart attack most times, usually it's the asthma that makes me feel like that, but i do sympathise, they don't happen too often, but i hate it how they come out of nowhere.

I pray that through God's grace you will be able to overcome this debilitating problem.

God Bless you, michelle.

Thanks ukok. You're in my prayers, too.

Michelle