Certain person triggers anxiety/panic

Do you have someone who triggers your anxiety, or even panic attack? How do you deal with it?

I have someone at school who triggers my anxiety, and I tend to have panic attack before or after encountering the person. It cannot be the choice to avoid this person for a lot of reasons, but I'm totally afraid of going to the class which I need to see the person. The issue is, he is not doing anything wrong. So I cannot even complain about him. His behavior just reminds me of my childhood abuser.

I don't want anyone except health care providers to know my condition. So I don't want to ask help to student service, professors, or friends. What can I do?

Yes I just posted in here about how my dad triggered me on thanksgiving. He works me up so bad. And I can't work because I have such anxiety around authority and I'll actually have an attack at work. When that happens, there's no hiding my anxiety and some people catch on to my bipolar too. It makes me feel singled out like a freak. I totally get it. ((Hugs))

i get extremely triggered by a support staff when he is on,he is very narcissistic and likes to hear him self talk,he literally doesnt stop talking apart from when he has food in his mouth and his shifts can be 8am-3pm or 3pm-10pm,i cant cope with lots of information,hes already been told to use simpler words when speaking with me as he is very academic in order to belittle you and on top of that he throws constant information.my mum gets worn out by him when she visits and doesnt like visiting when hes on.
i always have to take my PRN when he is on and i go for a sleep to otherwise i have a panic attack,ive asked if theyd give me another staff but theyve not done anything about it.

A man (usually on a bicycle) in a town where I used to live used to greatly disturb me by yelling hateful things at me whenever he happened to see me driving through town. Changing my schedule or route never made much difference, but now I live far away and no longer need to be concerned about him. I do not know an easy solution for you, but I would likely try to get to know your trigger person so I could see him as himself and not as someone else.

Two staff members at the school I go to. I go to a program that my school provides called adult prep program, for graduates. To teach life skills and such. The two staff members that cause me anxiety, basically run the whole program. They are both guys.

I have been (past tense) afraid of my neighbors where I live for many years. After a very bad episode in my life, and after four years of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), I have learned to overcome my fear of them. Even though DBT helped for the time I was in it, I have become more of an advocate for justice in this particular situation. Unfortunately for me, this might be too little too late, but it took me all this time to muster the nerve to face them about what they did to me. I stand up to these people now, and I find them to be a bunch of cowards. They still harass me to a small extent, but I do speak out against even the smallest abuse they hand me, both then and now. They tell me "I was delusional, hallucinating, and 'making things up'". I state to them to their face when they say these things that, although my mental illness was not in a good place in my recovery, I was none of those things. They in turn tell me somewhat of the truth that they never wanted me to move in here in the first place and never wanted me to be their neighbor. They have been trying to have me evicted for the 14 years I am still living here. Well, I am their neighbor whether they like it or not. It is not until now, since I am experiencing physical symptoms, that I will try to move. This may be a victory for them, but my battle against them will not be over until some sort of justice is served.

A woman at my support group

My ex-husband does it for me. I try to stay in control of my breathing which helps keep the panic low.

My boss. She seems sometimes like she's happy and wants to chat and other times like she wants to avoid everyone. I feel really good when we chat or joke around with each other and horrible bordering on panic when shes avoiding or short with me. Currently my mood is almost entirely dependent on how the two of us get along.

It seems so common to me. We all have people who spark this fear at one time or another. I had a boss who was highly critical of me. I even remember having a meeting of all the staff called because she thought I did something without her permission. I eventually started to feel choked up when I saw her, like I was going to scolded like a naughty child. But the best day was when I quit my job. I thought her eyes were going to pop out because she didn't see it coming. In retrospect, I think I made more of it than what it was and I don't hold any ill feelings and that's the best thing. She doesn't have any power of me in fear or anger.

This has come into very sharp focus today. My feelings are drifting into a full on crush and it sucks.

thisisthe end your boss and my boss sound alike. one minute she is joking around, happy and now the next minute she is moody and ready to pick on one of us... lately my anxiety has been more because of her just being around.

My mother does that to me when I see her in person. So many feelings come rushing back when I see her. On the phone isn't as bad because I can get away, I don't feel like I can in person. I also have a big problem with authority. I shut myself off completely around my bosses, even though they seem so cool. It really sucks.

A former friend of mine. We study in the same group at school so I'm forced to see her quite often. We also work on same thesis that I can't quit cause I have to graduate next spring. That's driving me crazy. She is. I'm quite sure she's a narcissist. No one likes her, but I've been too kind. Now can't do it anymore.