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Originally Posted by 1Buster
Why the hell is it called a Panic Attack or Anxiety Attack if you don't have to be feeling panic or anxiety when you get it?
I just figured out today that I have suffered several of these over the past 10 months. I just called it: "Feeling really friggin' weird all of a sudden for no g-d reason!" You better believe I have some panic when it hits like: "Holy s*** [wife]! I have to pull the car over to the shoulder of the interstate because all of a sudden I feel like I was just possessed by a ghost!" (The first time it happened). The next time: "Oh f***! Not when I'm driving again! I'm gonna end up killing someone!" I don't think that's the "panic" implied by the name, is it?
Most recent one is the best: Sitting in a movie theater about halfway through an enjoyable movie having popcorn and water then - "WHOOSH!" -that feeling just streams right into me without warning. My reaction: "Are you friggin' kidding me?! Here! Now! What hell for! I'm just sittin' here watching a pretty enjoyable movie having popcorn and water! For cripes sake I didn't even get drunk last night!" Wait ... let it pass ... still feel kind of weird for a while, finish movie and drive home.
I'd always figured that feeling was some kind of reaction to the ADHD stim meds. It feels a kind of like a stim med crash multiplied by about 100. But maybe some of my "stim med crashes have been a limited symptom attack.
I love asking questions like this here: Is this a normal Panic Attack feeling? Heh, Heh - "normal" - riiiiiiiiight.
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Thank you for this. Many years ago (the old woman began) I began to have what I called "fits" when, well, the world was just NOT RIGHT and EVERYTHING was just a bit wrong, and I knew I might die even though I also thought it a silly thought but-----------------
I researched, I found something called "anxiety" and said "WHAAAA?" I am a calm person. I do not get anxious, panic did not exist at the time, DSM didn't yet exist, or antidepressants...anyway
It took several years for the anxiety and the experience to "click" and now, yes, I feel anxious...I don't think it helps much except to talk to other people who may know what I am talking about...and I think in some ways (maybe not, I tend to avoid thinking too closely about then) it scared me less before I knew what was going on....
Oh, yeah, it is quite normal. I love to say that. It's a normal panic attack. The answer sounds a bit disappointing to me right now...