One of my eight-times-a-year trips outside my home is coming up this Sunday. Already I'm getting anxiety attacks about it. I feel like it's a death sentence and I'll be leaving forever. I feel shaky and jittery and don't know if I should laugh or scream. Fortunately no one else is here to watch this!

No amount of rational thinking is helping me with this. Since I'm not on meds yet, I'm wondering if anyone has any tips or clues on how you personally deal with an attack.

Chocolate just isn't doing the trick.

I read the 7 tips that Clau posted earlier, and I'm working on those too. The breathing technique is making me dizzy, I'm not doing it right. Working on it.

This is hard.