[lucami]

took an afternoon nap, when woke up I started to feel very heavy, like my body would weight tons, and suddenly racing heart, feeling like I'm dying.. I still feel like this, my hands are shaking, whole body is, and feel like pressure is crushing my head, heavy feeling in lungs... I took one tea spoon of liquid hydroxizine, and still feel like this... it is possible to really die out of panic attack?... because I feel like, i told this to my mom and she only yell at me... i'm so f!cking scared...

[lucami]

first time ever I have burning feeling in my lungs, bronchi in situation like this.. is this possible it's from panic attack or hydro? ... T.T

[kaliope]

no, it is not possible to die of a panic attack though it really does seem that way.

the key is to relax, even if you have to fake it. just imagine your whole body going limp like a wet noodle. it is physically impossible to panic and relax at the same time.

[elin95]

it's probably just a very heavy panic attack.. how are you doing now? feeling better?

[lucami]

Originally Posted by kaliope

no, it is not possible to die of a panic attack though it really does seem that way.

the key is to relax, even if you have to fake it. just imagine your whole body going limp like a wet noodle. it is physically impossible to panic and relax at the same time.

so when i panic i won't relax..;c and the problem is I can't relax when I'm having attack and my mother yells at me 'it because of computer!' and father 'u doing this coz u don't want go to to work!'.. I don't know how they can be so blind, deaf, how they can be my parents...

[kaliope]

You have to force yourself to relax. Just imagine all your muscles going limp. This really does work. Every time your mind panics again just tell yourself relax and go limp. You will have to do it over and over and over again until you get it right. It can be a battle. But once you learn how to do it you won't have panic attacks anymore

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[lucami]

Originally Posted by elin95

it's probably just a very heavy panic attack.. how are you doing now? feeling better?

I feel quite calm, eating something sweet, but still feel weak, like my spirit would be leaving body, like i would be dying, passing out, but without panic...
and i don't know if hydro irritated my tongue <which I cut yesterday eating apple.__.>but I feel heavy pain in it again, and in the right side of my neck, and even in ear.. I supposed to go with this to doc, but today is Independence Day, so non-working day ._.

I don't think anxiety can cause death unless there are some serious underlying health problems e.g. very serious heart disease, extremely high blood pressure, aneurysms etc. and that is just a possibility. I was given Inderal at one time in an attempt to slow my heart rate. My doctor was looking at the future more than the present. A heart has only so many beats in it to last a lifetime and I was using up a lot of mine
BTW I also had arrhythmia and pulmonary hypertension at the time. 20 years later and I'm still here
I'd tell you to relax but I've been there. Telling someone with fullblown anx to relax is kinda like telling someone on fire to chill out
Hang in there... it can get better and very likely will.

[lucami]

Originally Posted by kaliope

You have to force yourself to relax. Just imagine all your muscles going limp. This really does work. Every time your mind panics again just tell yourself relax and go limp. You will have to do it over and over and over again until you get it right. It can be a battle. But once you learn how to do it you won't have panic attacks anymore

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ok I will try, but i probably don't even remember how limp body feels, my muscles kinda twists itself when I have an attack, and without reason too, like my body would be in warning mode all the time..

[lucami]

Originally Posted by George H.

I don't think anxiety can cause death unless there are some serious underlying health problems e.g. very serious heart disease, extremely high blood pressure, aneurysms etc. and that is just a possibility. I was given Inderal at one time in an attempt to slow my heart rate. My doctor was looking at the future more than the present. A heart has only so many beats in it to last a lifetime and I was using up a lot of mine
BTW I also had arrhythmia and pulmonary hypertension at the time. 20 years later and I'm still here
I'd tell you to relax but I've been there. Telling someone with fullblown anx to relax is kinda like telling someone on fire to chill out
Hang in there... it can get better and very likely will.

I may have very underactive thyroid .__. my doc totally ignored this half year ago, good that other I've been to lately noticed this.. I did stupid thing, I read about thyroid before making tests again, and read that underactive can lead to death or coma... so maybe this makes me freaking out even more... 2 years ago I had meds for racing heart but never used it because when I had to quit group therapy, my heart calmed down itself.. actually somatic panic attacks like one that I had today disappeared year ago after my best friend cut every contact with me for totally no reason.. I don't know if it was such a big shock to my mind brain that it stopped somatics or sth, but now it came again for no big reason, I have stress all the time..

Good that you're alive 'I'd tell you to relax but I've been there. Telling someone with fullblown anx to relax is kinda like telling someone on fire to chill out ' yup, that's a problem and I don't even remeber how relax feels in state like this:c
it can get better.. maybe, and then it can get worse.. I don't want to go through this again and again....I don't have power for this anymore ;c

[lucami]

damn, seems like i'm no better at all, just now had wave of hot feeling, wave of panic.. my heart is racing again, body is shaking, and i have hot feeling in head and back of my neck too...T.T

[lucami]

damndamndamn I don't know it it's panic or stroke feeling such hotness in head, especially on the back of the head... and hot in ears daaaaamn

[lucami]

i know i'm annoying, probably everyone will hate me for posts under posts, but i'm so scared.. I can't count on my family, friends lives far away and don't understand panic at all... I'm shaking and really don't know what to do ;c

[lucami]

i don't know what is happening, normally i would have attack, and it would go away.. but today i feel like it comes bac like every 10 min or so... like i'm bit calming down and axiety rolercaster back again....

Originally Posted by lucami

I may have very underactive thyroid .__. my doc totally ignored this half year ago, good that other I've been to lately noticed this.. I did stupid thing, I read about thyroid before making tests again, and read that underactive can lead to death or coma... so maybe this makes me freaking out even more... 2 years ago I had meds for racing heart but never used it because when I had to quit group therapy, my heart calmed down itself.. actually somatic panic attacks like one that I had today disappeared year ago after my best friend cut every contact with me for totally no reason.. I don't know if it was such a big shock to my mind brain that it stopped somatics or sth, but now it came again for no big reason, I have stress all the time..

Good that you're alive 'I'd tell you to relax but I've been there. Telling someone with fullblown anx to relax is kinda like telling someone on fire to chill out ' yup, that's a problem and I don't even remeber how relax feels in state like this:c
it can get better.. maybe, and then it can get worse.. I don't want to go through this again and again....I don't have power for this anymore ;c

Yes, you do have power. I didn't see any mention of anxiety meds. Sometimes they can be very helpful. They can't take all your anxiety away but they can take the edge off. Relaxing music can be very helpful also. Are you being treated for hypochondria issues?

You are not annoying at all.

If it's very bad for you, perhaps you should consider going to the emergency room...They see lots of this kind of thing there.

If that's not an options, what about a warm bath? Shower?
Take deep breaths (hyperventilating will make you dizzy), find something totally ridiculous to watch to give you something to focus on.

And unless you have experienced it, you don't understand an attack. It's a very real thing.
A lot of people don't understand that something mental can cause such physical distress.....

[lucami]

Originally Posted by George H.

Yes, you do have power. I didn't see any mention of anxiety meds. Sometimes they can be very helpful. They can't take all your anxiety away but they can take the edge off. Relaxing music can be very helpful also. Are you being treated for hypochondria issues?

i tried ssri before, it made my attacks only worse, had attacks like today for hours, everyday.. and my thoughts about being possessed and suicidal feelings started after meds & group therapy.. so I wish to cure without meds, I don't believe in the, i don't want to be addicted to them.. i used to use only herb tea and meds which had valerian, and it used to work before... today my attack was so heavy that i took one spoon of hydroxizine, my psychiatrist told me i could take this everyday, but i'm afraid if i would, my body would get used to it and it would stop working.. i'm listening to Blissful Deep Relaxation on yt, it probably helped a bit now..
no, my doctor doesn't want to give me referrals <even when other said to me wtf she should to>, so I don't know if something is wrong with my body, or if i'm overreacting.. i know only that i have diagnosed depression, anxiety, panic attacks, ocd, heavy anemia, psoriasis, high cholesterol even if i'm very underweight, and probably underactive thyroid... I know I sound like paranoid ._. my father scared me since i was a kid with talking about many illness, he still does and even says to me sometimes 'you'll die' etc... so I got very sensitive about health...
I lay down for like 10 min and felt bit better, now heavy and weak again, have problems with breathing eh ._.

[lucami]

Originally Posted by sophiesmom

You are not annoying at all.

If it's very bad for you, perhaps you should consider going to the emergency room...They see lots of this kind of thing there.

If that's not an options, what about a warm bath? Shower?
Take deep breaths (hyperventilating will make you dizzy), find something totally ridiculous to watch to give you something to focus on.

And unless you have experienced it, you don't understand an attack. It's a very real thing.
A lot of people don't understand that something mental can cause such physical distress.....

thanks sophiesmom
nobody will pick me up to hospital right now when my parents are sleeping already..
I thought about bath but I'm kinda worried if I feel so dizzy and weak if I wouldn't pass out in the bathroom .__.
I'm trying 4 square breathing. and feel like I breathe kind of too less:s and breathing itself is kinda heavy.. yeah watching something silly sound like a good idea, I haven't watch cartoons for a while
I know this.. but they saw my attacks, saw how I felt down on the street, and yet they don't care at all....
eh. this heavy breathing still worries me, same with thyroid, thought if my panic attack didn't came from this, I don't know if I should finally go to blood tests tomorrow when I feel so bad..

Originally Posted by lucami

i tried ssri before, it made my attacks only worse, had attacks like today for hours, everyday.. and my thoughts about being possessed and suicidal feelings started after meds & group therapy.. so I wish to cure without meds, I don't believe in the, i don't want to be addicted to them.. i used to use only herb tea and meds which had valerian, and it used to work before... today my attack was so heavy that i took one spoon of hydroxizine, my psychiatrist told me i could take this everyday, but i'm afraid if i would, my body would get used to it and it would stop working.. i'm listening to Blissful Deep Relaxation on yt, it probably helped a bit now..
no, my doctor doesn't want to give me referrals <even when other said to me wtf she should to>, so I don't know if something is wrong with my body, or if i'm overreacting.. i know only that i have diagnosed depression, anxiety, panic attacks, ocd, heavy anemia, psoriasis, high cholesterol even if i'm very underweight, and probably underactive thyroid... I know I sound like paranoid ._. my father scared me since i was a kid with talking about many illness, he still does and even says to me sometimes 'you'll die' etc... so I got very sensitive about health...
I lay down for like 10 min and felt bit better, now heavy and weak again, have problems with breathing eh ._.

I'm so sorry someone filled you with fears. Parents.... no comment.
I know how bad intense anxiety feels although in my case it wasn't illness based anxiety. Extreme anxiety is torture. Nobody who hasn't felt it could possibly understand and for me personally, talking didn't help much. The anxiety is your main problem though. The physical problems you mentioned are minor. I have coping and relaxation techniques but to me, once you reach a tipping point in anxiety nothing is going to help as much and as quickly as an anti-anxiety med.

[lucami]

thanks George, I could handle uni, could handle stress at work, could handle dramas around friends, could handle that my exbf almost died because of heart disease.. but what my parents putted to my head since I was kid, is too much .__.
yeah you're right.. I don't have a t, the ones I've been to only listened, but they weren't behavioral, so they didn't show me any coping techniques etc... After this hydroxizine I feel like my panic is still there, hydroxizine is like putting blanket on panic attack, but I can still feel it and it worries me... I think I'll try to go to sleep, when I'm waling around my room I have to hold on walls coz still feel dizzy and like gravity is crushing me, my heart started to beat strange, like beating would be a hard work :c hope that I won't die or something... but have bad feelings.. can we trust out guts when we have anxiety? like if I have feeling like something bad would happen.. ;c

[poorguy]

Originally Posted by lucami

took an afternoon nap, when woke up I started to feel very heavy, like my body would weight tons, and suddenly racing heart, feeling like I'm dying.. I still feel like this, my hands are shaking, whole body is, and feel like pressure is crushing my head, heavy feeling in lungs... I took one tea spoon of liquid hydroxizine, and still feel like this... it is possible to really die out of panic attack?... because I feel like, i told this to my mom and she only yell at me... i'm so f!cking scared...

I'm very sorry to hear that and I do hope that you recover very soon!!

Just relax!!

We all care and love you!!^^

[lucami]

thanks poorguy, I'm trying to but relaxing doesn't work, I had dreams of parents yelling at me.. and woke up like 10 min ago, and I feel panic already, my hands are shaking, my body is shaking, racing heart, no idea what to do :ccccc

[lucami]

ok I survived the day somehow, but when my friend had to go, 2 min alone and I'm freaking out, trying to don't let my panic rule my body but it's so strong .__.

Your friend helped you stay grounded? If so consider how that works and see if you can use the knowledge so that you help you to stay grounded.

[lucami]

the problem is when he was here, i felt that is something would happen, he would call for help, when im alone i know that if i pass out nobody will help me.. Besides i had attacks while friends were visiting me and everything was ok, hope that this times won't come back, i want to get rid of attacks.. But lately i have attacks even in dreams :c and today this crushing feeling again too, which makes me very nervous :c