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Panic attacks

Rjat

Hi all,

I was diagnosed with ASD and ADHD last year in my 30s after having a mental breakdown. I have had ongoing struggles as long as I can remember and I had hope that I was traumatised and I could overcome this with discipline and constant personal development. Other people couldn’t see it and never understood what I meant when I said I was struggling. 

I was going through a career change and went from coping relatively well to having regular panic attacks. This left me in a fixed state of anxiety for a while and my usual coping strategies at the time stopped working. I stopped interacting with people and lost my spark for a while and was physically ill from the stress and worry. I’ve been rebuilding and have good days and bad days but doing much better currently. I was wondering has anyone else been through something similar and if so, what helped?

any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Parents

  • I’ve definitely had panic attacks yeah, they are traumatic on their own without anything else to come along and add salt into the wound. I would suggest long walks in the open air, just keep walking until you get bored or wish to head home, key is to occupy yourself with more than the same four walls because this can make you feel stale, groggy and without hope. At least if you are moving and the scenery keeps changing with any luck you’ll feel a bit more in control. 

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  • I’ve definitely had panic attacks yeah, they are traumatic on their own without anything else to come along and add salt into the wound. I would suggest long walks in the open air, just keep walking until you get bored or wish to head home, key is to occupy yourself with more than the same four walls because this can make you feel stale, groggy and without hope. At least if you are moving and the scenery keeps changing with any luck you’ll feel a bit more in control. 

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  • in reply to Autismman

    Thank you. It’s good advice and something I know works. I worked as a postman briefly after this happened and it got me moving in the right direction again doing 28000 steps a day and exhausted me to the point I slept well. However, it wasn’t a long term solution in terms of job but a lesson to be learnt there. Thank you for the advice, it’s greatly appreciated!