Panic Attacks Support Group

Its been a while but I think I'm relapsing per se. The past week and a bit I have had a horrible time trying to even get to sleep and now is no exception. In fact now is the worst one yet. I hate the nighttime, its the peak of my anxiety and panic. Right now I've been getting what feels like very very slow heart palpitations which start at my feet and make my whole body feel funny and I can't shake the feeling (especially in my feet). Its hard to describe the feelings but thats what they feel like. I'm terrified when it happens and I can't stop thinking that if I fall asleep I won't wake up. Its 3:40 am where I am and I just can't sleep. I'm scared. I'm so tired of this. I'm tired of crying. And when my boyfriend reassures me that nothing is going to happen I get even more panicky because I feel like he's jinxing me. I'm scared that my heart is going to get set off into an abnormal rhythm. I still don't feel right. I feel off. I want to be ME again and this is NOT me.

I'm sorry you struggling right now. Just remember that panic cannot and will not kill you. Try taking your pulse when you feel like this. Sometimes when we think our heart is doing something it really isn't. Try the slow deep breathing and cold water on your face. I hope you feel better today.

hugs

I agree sometimes, though our heart MAY be going really fast cause sometimes it does in an attack, take your pulse, almost always its no higher than it would be say if you were working out, one of the BEST things I have learned to do is NOT to set still and think about it--

make yourself get up and DO something I have a list in my house if one hits there of things that I can do that I normally dont do cause well I dont think about it but it takes so much effort and thought that I dont like

rearange the stuff in the cabnits of my kitchen

do yoga

steam clean my floors

if I am in the car I turn on some music (a cd I love from the 80's lol) I know all the words to and sing and if it gets worse I turn it up louder and sing harder cause panic cant make you passout (unless you forget to breath lol)

just finding things to DO when you panic to not set there and think about all the what if's can change your life what do you have to lose?

HI, I'm just seeing this post now. I've been going through the same this for the past month and it's been torturous. If you see this post and want to email privately to talk, let me know.

Nicole

Find something that has a rhythm that you can "sync" your heart to. When i was little I would have heart flutters and I would put my head on my dad's chest and listen to his heart and close my eyes and let my body resync my heart with his beat. If you can't do that with someone they sell teddy bears that have the heartbeat. it is supposed to be instinctively helpful to babies. Maybe it would work. I don't know if it would help for racing heart but the fluttering it does.