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Severe Panic Attacks

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    Einstein A. Gogo
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    Go to your Doctor to get some medication to help ease them and when you're feeling a bit better start to deal with the cause through counselling. It worked for me.


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    Victor
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    Agreed, go to GP.

    While medication might not be an immediate decision, it might be useful.

    A long time ago, I thought I had a number of panic attacks. They were actually undiagnosed asthma attacks related to anxiety. :)


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    The Lost Sheep
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    ellebi wrote: »
    Advice / Help for severe panic attacks
    Talk to someone. Go to your GP and see what they advise. They may recommend talking to a specialist or they may think a treatment of medication may help
    Einstein A. Gogo wrote: »
    Go to your Doctor to get some medication to help ease them and when you're feeling a bit better start to deal with the cause through counselling. It worked for me.
    Wouldnt look for medication immediately as CBT and other talk therapies can be extremely beneficial to a lot of people and medication can be unncessary in a lot of cases


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    julyjane
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    Einstein A. Gogo wrote: »
    Go to your Doctor to get some medication to help ease them and when you're feeling a bit better start to deal with the cause through counselling. It worked for me.

    And me. I know there is a bit of bad press about benzodiazepines but one gp on the TV one night said "if anxiety is a fire, benzodiazepines are the fire extinguisher". Being referred for a CBT appointment that might not be for another week or more is not helpful to someone who's suffering here and now. I haven't taken benzodiazepines in years but when I was prescribed them they cleared my head enough for non-drug methods of treatment to work and only for them I don't think I'd be as well as I am today.


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    pilly
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    julyjane wrote: »
    And me. I know there is a bit of bad press about benzodiazepines but one gp on the TV one night said "if anxiety is a fire, benzodiazepines are the fire extinguisher". Being referred for a CBT appointment that might not be for another week or more is not helpful to someone who's suffering here and now. I haven't taken benzodiazepines in years but when I was prescribed them they cleared my head enough for non-drug methods of treatment to work and only for them I don't think I'd be as well as I am today.

    I agree, for me it was the difference between getting to a counselling session and not getting there.


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