TOO YOUNG TO FEEL LIKE IM DYING =[

[jenasiz12]

Ok so maybe the title is a bit dramatic, but to my life is a drama movie. This is my story i hope everyone can relate but most of all i hope some/most of you fellow anxiety suffers can help =]

I had my first panick attack when i was 17 i did not know what happened so i thought maybe i was feeling a bit crazy ignored the feeling and preceeded with my day little did i know that i had been having these panick attacks usually when i was driving always around the same spot(wierd or not) anyways a week passed and i was at school what do you know another panick attack what seems strange to me is that i it was a sudden onset. Well time progresses and i started having them more frequently soon they kept me house ridden. literally i would not leave my front door for the feel of dying, i do not know why i felt this way but i did finally after fighting my anxiety i was relieved of it with a bit of light couseling for oh say about 1 month no panick attacks it was amazing THENN BAMMMMM once again sudden onset now im feeling this way again im not completly house ridden but i will not travel out of my comfort zone which i might add is 3 mile radius of my house.. HELPPPP i have a life to live i am only 20 years young , have a child who is 2 and am currently trying to finish a BACHELORS DEGREE but cant make it to school thats right i had to postpone my dreams.l i really need help i need to get rid of this comfort zone and live my life any suggestions.

[OneMoreTry]

Hi!
I wanted to share with you something that I noticed about myself when I was going through my panic attack period. I was creating a lot of drama, I don't know, maybe I was doing it because I was so bored or because my life at that time was so tedious and I had to buckle down and do a lot of stuff that was monotonous. Maybe because I really wanted to connect with people and I couldn't seem to. I'd tell myself all these dramatic things and because I was scared and I didn't want to be in that situation, what I was telling myself would fuel it. Then I had an excuse not to get on with my life, I couldn't - I had this problem. The way I got a grip was to monitor what I was telling myself. First, I'd break it down the thought as "talking" to myself or was I creating an "image" in my head. Then I'd focus outside of myself, to check what was really going on, as in "I'm standing here, the sun is shining, I have a bit of a headache, my hand is reaching for the doorknob, the doorknob is cold, I'm taking a step, I'm outside, etc" you get the idea. When I'd get a scary thought, I'd label it "having a scary thought" and kept going. The panic attack was just PART of my experience it wasn't the WHOLE experience.
This process helped me to get some distance from myself and allowed me the space to realize that not every thought I have is true. In fact, almost all of the thougts I was having weren't true. They weren't being supported by the facts of the environment. They were just thoughts. I'd also call myself on being caught up in thoughts by asking myself "So what?" If I'd follow that one, I'd find that I was feeding myself a very dramatic story line (that I should really write down to sell as movie rather than using to feed myself a line of crap). The "So What?" question also helps to get me past a lot of social fear that I create for myself. "Everybody is going to see that I'm tired and depressed and they'll see what a loser I am" - So What? What do I think is going to happen and is it real (as in happening right now and supported by the environment)? Sometimes, I think (tell myself) that I can't handle it - but if I get real, I can. I (and probably everyone in this program) have been to hell and back (several times), I've been there before, and I'm still here. I can do it.
Anyway, I've found that if I don't get caught up in my own "game", it goes a lot better. Hope that helps.

[nessa9522]

Ok don't know where to begin.... When I first started suffering from panic attacks/ anxiety, depression whatever you want to call it I was so afraid of dying! I too would not want to go out and I almost gave up on my job. I had to miss work for days sometimes..... let me tell you what had helped me :GOD. I gave my life to God and started going to church and he has helped me so much.... I am now free!!!! and it is all thanks to my savior! i just left my life in his hands and prayed..... the program also helped me because it helped me understand that I was not the only one suffering. there are millions of people going through the same thing that you are..... well I really hopes this helps you and message me anytime .....