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Panic Attacks

  • 24-08-2014 9:59pm
    #1
    PrettyRad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31 ✭


    Hi all!

    I'm 18 years old and suffer from bad anxiety which, coupled with health anxiety(hypochondria), leads to some pretty awful panic attacks.

    My first ever panic attack was in the cinema and I always feel really stupid talking about it. Myself and two friends were going to see Olympus Has Fallen and it was only a few days after the Aurora cinema shooting so I was on edge.

    When we entered the theatre, I figured out that we'd be the only ones in there and that kind of set off the panic. My anxiety was telling me that anybody could burst in with a gun and we'd be their only targets. I couldn't catch my breath and even the usual "inhale for 4, hold for 7, exhale for 8" wasn't calming me down. I could hear my heartbeat pounding in my ears but because I had never had a panic attack before, I didn't know that that is what it was. Which of course set off my health anxiety, as I convinced myself that I was having a heart attack.

    So there I was, quietly holding back tears, trying my usual calming techniques and failing, convinced that I was going to die, one way or another.
    There's this scene in the movie, where the president's car careers off the road and his wife dies, and the moment that happened, I spiralled. My chest tightened and that was it, I was so sure that I was having a heart attack at that moment. I went out to the bathroom and sat in a cubicle, in the quiet, and eventually calmed myself down, but I continued shaking like a leaf the whole way through the movie.

    What are your experiences?
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