Feeling a lot weird about this, as I'm reluctant to accept help on any level, but just started the program a few days ago and finding it helpful thus far. So I'm posting. I'm 31, single mother of two. I had panic attacks in college for a couple years, and beat them back without medication or therapy by restructuring the way I thought. Took a long time. They started again last month after over 10 years of being almost entirely free of them. ( so it CAN be done because I've done it before.) Things being quite a bit different 10 years later in my life, I'm finding that I have to do it again, and it's somewhat harder.
My biggest obstacles are the physical aspects of panic, as I'm really really good at triggering a panic attack from one tiny heart skip or itchy skin crawling moment. I have a hard time breaking the cycle of thinking about panic until I'm panicking.
I know what it feels like to have your life turn into one endless panic cycle. It's devastating. I had a huge panic attack tonight that left me exhausted after two days of feeling good, and I know how it feels to get depressed and beat yourself up over it. I am hoping against hope that this will give me the tools, give all of us the tools to help us.
