Stress Center Peer Support

Can you have a panic out of no where? I can be doing something and this weird feeling comes over me and then I can get shaky and my heart beats fast or my mind can start racing with weird thoughts. It is kind of scary but it passes but are these anxiety and panic attacks symptoms too?

I had something like that today. I think in general if you have panic attacks you get these wierd feelings now and then unprovoked, but they do happen. The best thing to do is to distract yourself I think. What helped me today was to exersize as well. I hope this helps!

I get them without any outside situation as far as I can tell as I get them sometimes just as I'm falling asleep. I wake up completely, certain that I am dying, and have even woke my husband to take me to ER...of course...within a few minutes I realize it's another PA....and try to go back to sleep.
-Sandy in Ontario

Anxiety always comes from a thought or a feeling or a dream. As you work the program you will be able to figure out exactly what it was. It is your reaction to something. Please keep in mind that if you are unable to pinpoint where it began, the anxiety will still go away. You do not have to know what caused it in order for it to pass. You soothe yourself. Comfort yourself and remind yourself that YOU CAN HANDLE THIS. Let the anxiety be there. It WILL pass.

Thank You!!

I have panic attacks out of nowhere a lot, when I have them. And I hate them the most! I know that I probably had a scary thought but can't for the life of me figure out what it was, or maybe it was a bunch of them.