Are these normal symptoms of anxiety/panic attacks?
I’ve had anxiety for as long as I can remember. I used to have anxiety attacks as a juvenile, with a ” lump in the throat and I’m going to swallow it and choke to death ” feeling and my hands would get sweaty and I would lie awake in bed, scared to death from days, sometimes even weeks on in. I’m 25 now and I’ve recently been having them but they’re not too bad, however, today I was at work and encountered the worst anxiety attack I’ve ever had in my entire life. I was having a good day, nothing going wrong then all of sudden I left my office and my chest began to tighten. I started panicing and my heart rate increased drasticly and I began to shake uncontrolabley. I started thinking I was going to sufficate to death. It felt like I had someone sitting on my chest and I couldn’t expand it enough to get a full breath. I sat down and it began to slow down. An hour later, I thought it was over and I began to drive home from work. I was talking to a girlfriend on the phone and I literally hung up on her in mid conversation because it started again. I pulled over to the side of the road from the highway and started flipping out again. My chest tightened, I was having trouble breathing, I started to shake and and I felt really light headed. It honestly scared me. I’m afraid to go to sleep now. I’ve never expirineced a panic attack this bad before. Is this normal? a friend told me, some panic attacks are worse then others. I feel like I’m losing my mind.
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This is a somewhat normal panic attack for people who experience severe anxiety. But what is really bad here is that you have started on a downward cycle and fear of having more anxiety attacks is going to cause you to have more anxiety attacks. So you have a problem.
You need to be prepared ahead of time for these anxiety attacks. You need to rehearse over and over again what you will do when you feel the panic set in. Slow measured breathing, visualizing yourself in a happy place, etc. This rehearsal will help you do it automatically when the panic sets in.
Close your eyes when you are alone and in a safe place and take yourself mentally through a panic attack. What you feel like when it first starts to happen and then all the way through it.
If you cant get control of this go and get some therapeutic help.
That’s a textbook description of a panic attack. Sounds just like mine, but I also had intense feelings of unreality, very disoriented.
Make sure you write down when it happened and how severe it was. My panic attacks became increasingly frequent, and I was soon having them almost every other day. It got to a point where I was ready to quit school and work, for fear that one would occur while I was there.
it depends what your mental state was..i have similar anxiety attacks but i never had chest pains, its normal to have a faster heart rate,to sweat alot or to have some difficulty breathing, and becoming realy nervouse or shake during a panick attack but as for the chest pain i think you should see a doctor.you should find out what is causeing this.