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Cyrano and Sundog,
With all due respect to how you feel and the medication you take,
any information or advice you receive from others on Psych Central is absolutely useless, unless you use it! What you don't seem to realize is, that everyone with these disorders goes through the same symptoms of anxiety,panic agoraphobia, avoidance, depression, many do not understand the reason for their disorder, but many others do! I'm sure talking about your particular disorder feels good at that moment, "but" how about the times when your not, what do you do to help recover, anything?
I sent a post this AM asking, what are you doing when your not having panic attacks and you said in one of your posts that when your busy at work you have none. In answer to your visit to IHOP I wrote where ever you are or what ever your doing when you feel a panic attack coming on immediately stop thinking about the attack and occupy your mind with something completly different. Get your mind on something else other than 'you", I'm sure you can understand that no one else, "no one else can do it for you". The only reason why I post is to help others avoid what I didn't know years ago, when I needed help so desperately! What I'm suggesting you do is called a Cognitive Shift, to change your way of thinking at the moment of terrifying fear when your about to become (MANIC) thats when you lose control of mind and behaviour! If my suggestion seems harsh, think about your attacks that take you to the brink!!
I'm with you in suffering!!
Thanks for reading my post !
quote=christophegeorg;1774731]It's hard to impress upon people who are afflicted with this terrible disorder that there is a common sense solution to reduce or end the symptoms of this fear based disorder, however what it takes is conviction and the will to attempt their recovery! Through the years of my anxiety disorder and thousands of panic attacks, acute avoidance, and finally agoraphobia which left me housebound I never had the benefit of an explanation of what I was suffering from or why? With so many visits to emergency rooms I lost count, but the only answer was always, that I just had suffered a panic attack! Not until I recovered over thirty-five years ago and seeing over a dozen doctors did I discover that I was both victim and perpetrator of my own disorder! Without anticipitory anxiety and dwelling on the fear of my next attack there would have been no disorder![/quote]
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