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Old Jul 03, 2013, 02:18 PM
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Welcome to the forum I have had a similar problems as you, am the same age as well. I always feel bad about my friends being in college and me not even really being able to leave the house much anymore. I agree with pbutton about the drinking water thing and CBT. I have recently started running and grabbing a water or something to drink as soon as I feel a panic attack coming on to keep my mind off it, or I put cold water on my face. In CBT I was also told to write down when I'm having a panic attack, the time and what I was doing before it happened to see if there's any kind of pattern or trigger. For me there doesn't seem to be any patterns or anything but there are for a lot of people.

The tingly sensation does sound like a panic attack, you may not personally feel like you're going to die or feel depersonalized but it still sounds like panic attacks and worth looking into to see what's causing it or what can help to stop them. In the beginning I was getting help for something else unrelated to anxiety as well then the anxiety/panic disorder just kind of came up out of nowhere for me and disrupted my life so much. I hope you can maybe start seeing your psychiatrist again or be able to do psychotherapy with a therapist to help you out
Thanks for this!
pbutton, sadplant