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As someone who experienced countless panic attacks, I find the description of his symptoms to be very on point with my experience. I've hit rock bottom about 1

As someone who experienced countless panic attacks, I find the description of his symptoms to be very on point with my experience. I've hit rock bottom about 10 years ago, experiencing these about three times a week. The road to building myself back was pretty long and is still an every day effort, but nowadays I only experience these once or twice a year, if any. If that's of any help to anyone, I've found countless of little things that put together helped a lot. They aren't ground breaking by any mean, just sharing my experience and tips: - Therapy. yes, good old fashioned therapy. Shop around to find the right person. - Life change, I moved from one country to another. Spoiler alert, the panic attacks followed me, but it certainly gave me more confidence. - Identify your triggers. It took me years, but my trigger was a stomach inflammation that I identified as being my heart having an issue. So I changed my diet, stopped smoking too. - Exercise. Finding what you like is a long and painful process, I only found what I liked around 30. For me it was hiking, then climbing, then more recently (pandemic), yoga. I hope that's useful for someone.

hellbannedguy 5y ago
I found his description of a Panic Attack well documented. I have never convulsed though. My panic attacks were very brief compared to the authors. "The next four hours were a hellscape of terror, panic and paranoia. There were almost no thoughts, only my body begging to escape my skin, convulsing like a fish fighting for life. The fear was a bottomless trench." The last line hit home with me. I've only had one bad Panic Attack. What I didn't realize is how it would affect my anxiety levels in the following years. I'm on a long half life benzodiazepine, and a drug they give to opioid addicts, but the anxiety is still there. I have noticed my anxiety levels impiroved a bit with age.
- CountDrewku 5y ago
  I'm guessing the "convulsion" he's talking about was just adrenaline tremors. I had these a lot after panic attacks, my legs would shake like crazy. The thing I read that basically made them disappear was that if you watch animals like a zebra or something after they been chased by lion... they usually twitch and shake all over. I used to get really upset and more panicky when they happened which just made them even worse. It's a completely normal response after an adrenaline rush and it's actually a sign that your body is calming down.
CountDrewku 5y ago
Glad to hear you're doing better. I had a similar experience about a decade ago. Went through 2 years of feeling awful, changed a lot of things and got better. Had an attack out of nowhere last year and felt off for a few months until I remembered exactly how I got out of it before. Each time you realize you can get better with your set of tools it becomes less scary. You definitely get to the point where they're just kinda meh and you move on with life.

hellbannedguy 5y ago

I found his description of a Panic Attack well documented. I have never convulsed though. My panic attacks were very brief compared to the authors. "The next four hours were a hellscape of terror, panic and paranoia. There were almost no thoughts, only my body begging to escape my skin, convulsing like a fish fighting for life. The fear was a bottomless trench." The last line hit home with me. I've only had one bad Panic Attack. What I didn't realize is how it would affect my anxiety levels in the following years. I'm on a long half life benzodiazepine, and a drug they give to opioid addicts, but the anxiety is still there. I have noticed my anxiety levels impiroved a bit with age.

CountDrewku 5y ago
I'm guessing the "convulsion" he's talking about was just adrenaline tremors. I had these a lot after panic attacks, my legs would shake like crazy. The thing I read that basically made them disappear was that if you watch animals like a zebra or something after they been chased by lion... they usually twitch and shake all over. I used to get really upset and more panicky when they happened which just made them even worse. It's a completely normal response after an adrenaline rush and it's actually a sign that your body is calming down.

CountDrewku 5y ago

Glad to hear you're doing better. I had a similar experience about a decade ago. Went through 2 years of feeling awful, changed a lot of things and got better. Had an attack out of nowhere last year and felt off for a few months until I remembered exactly how I got out of it before. Each time you realize you can get better with your set of tools it becomes less scary. You definitely get to the point where they're just kinda meh and you move on with life.