The Secret About Panic Attacks that Changed My Life Forever!
This is a complete dramatization that is a possibility for you.
I can remember the first time that I had a panic attack just like it was yesterday. I was actually in the dugout during a baseball game. I had just come off the mound and sat down. All of a sudden my chest tightened up and I had a very difficult time breathing. I started to sweat and feel nauseous all at the same time. I tried to stand up and head to the water fountain, but as soon as I stood up, my vision blurred and I fell to the ground.The game was stopped on my account, an ambulance was called and I was taken to the hospital. The coaches actually thought that I was having a heart attack.
That was my first panic attack and the beginning of what today I like to call the Hell period of my life.
Let’s back track a bit.
One day, just like any other, I came home from school. See I was the pitcher on the varsity baseball team at my high school. When I got home my mother and father were in a big fight. I’m not sure what happened exactly but it seemed that my father did something that he shouldn’t have. Later we found out that he had cheated. Not only had he cheated but he was actually going to move in with his new girlfriend who also happened to be his secretary. I know these days that sounds cliche, but that’s how it happened.
When I arrived at the hospital after my first attack, several tests were done, the doctors concluded that I was under a lot of stress and told me that I’d had a panic attack. They prescribed Xanax and so my days as a prescription drug user started as well. Even with the medication I was still having the attacks regularly. Then they put me on something called Clonazepam. The problem is that I’m very sensitive to drugs and so every drug they put me on gave me horrible side effects.
This went on for years. I actually went off to college only to find that my attacks got even worse. Now I was becoming depressed, or maybe I was depressed the entire time and it was just getting worse. I had a therapist that I saw on a weekly basis. By this time I was on my 5th drug. This one was called Doxepin.
I started a relationship in college, but my girlfriend couldn’t handle my attacks. I mean I guess I can understand her. We would be sitting in a movie and right in the middle of it I would feel an attack coming on and I would have to get up and get out of the theatre. It was really a very tough time in my life. I couldn’t hold a relationship, I was barely making it through college. I hardly had any friends and my future looked completely bleak.
About a month after Jackie Broke up with me I was on campus coming out of the library and I started to have an attack. There is a little lounge area outside and so I laid on one of the couches hoping that it would go away quickly. A guy by the name of Brian asked me if I was ok and I told him I was fine that I just had a headache.
To my surprise Brian said, “it looks to me more like an anxiety attack.” I couldn’t believe my ears. There was someone out there who actually knew what I was going through. Brian shared a little technique with me that started working immediately. I mean moments after I used it I started feeling better.
Needless to say, Brian became on of my best friends and we are still great friends to this day. Brian had also suffered from panic attacks for a good part of his life. He’d done research and found out about some techniques that were successful for many sufferers.
It’s now been almost 5 years since I haven’t taken any medication at all. While I still do get slight attacks from time to time, they are NOTHING like they used to bee and with the techniques that I know, the symptoms are gone in moments. My life is back to normal and I’ve never been happier.
I hope you’ll take my story as a sign that things can get better if you are suffering from panic attacks. You don’t’ have to take meds and you can start feeling better and living a normal life.
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