I'm new here, but highly qualified (with time and experience) panic attack sufferer. I'm just recently coming to terms with the whole situation and stepping out the box and into the whole "letting go" scheme of things. Gotta say, it took a long while to grasp even the idea, but the little I've experienced makes the whole trip worthwhile, and the trip ahead worth the risks. Hope has treated me frivolously over the last couple years, but ironically the more I let go the better hope treats me. Cheers to the trip ahead, however long or short it may be, I'm taking it round the world.
Oh, my name is Joe, hope to share a great experience with you all (Ha, I'm hoping already!)
I definitely feel both. Sometimes simultaneously, sometimes like the cars in the street, one after the other. I used to have a lot of trouble managing, still do to a degree. I think my willingness to take it on makes both conditions more manageable though.
It's all a learning process, but every teacher starts off as a student!
Great jiminy, I know this feeling! I get the lump in the throat thing quite often, it almost acts like a reminder that anxiety is about to hit or already is.
To subside it a bit, I stick my chin up so my throat has a clear path, then swallow once, and breath slowly for a minute or two. I'm sure I get my fair share of looks, but I don't mind looking like a goofball. Mind you, this doesn't get rid of it completely, but it takes the feeling away enough to continue whatever I'm doing...which usually leads to it going away. It reminds me of the old eye twitch, it doesn't go away until you take your focus off of it.
Kinda funny, you both have A's in your name and started one right after the other. Anywho, I'm new to this site too, but not new to anxiety, so hope we all have a far-out time discovering our new world!
Forgive me, for my brain works in odd patterns and none of those patterns seem to understand where in the world the instant messenger is. I feel like I'm looking for Waldo...and he isn't wearing his normal white and red shirt...
Summers been great to me. I came from an place that gave me anxiety so bad, I almost went Bruce Lee on a friend.
I just started this program, but this whole summer I've been purposely more active, while still giving me time for me to do whatever me wants to do. (Satisfy my id, ego and super ego in their own ways - something I learned from psychology class 5 years ago)
These summer months mean more to me then when I was in high school. They signify the start of something new, whether that's a good or bad thing, I've come to find out is my choice. Mind you, I'm playing with this idea until I can really grasp the potential behind it. But the words I use and the reactions I get and give, everything just feels truer. After feeling like plastic (fake) for so long due to my own self induced phobia's, real feels kinda good. Aha, might as well be honest, real feels really good.
Something you don't like (lumpthroat), creates something you do like (goofy looks). Ah, the yin and the yang of life. Sometimes I wish my mom was wrong and everything WAS given to me on a golden platter. But then again, I doubt I could truly appreciate it.
Every time I get the eye twitch I examine it like a doctor now. Poke different spots, see if anything helps or if I can alter the twitch pattern, intensity, etc. Yea, more looks for that, but the more I let go of that care the more I can focus on my eye twitch. And that's what really matters, the thing that bugs me right? Wait-a-minute...I see a pattern here...ah damn, never mind I lost it...
Thanks Breanne! Oh also, I think I may be trippen, but is there a Brenne, Bilingual Health Educator as well?
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