• Replies 13 replies
  • Subscribers 73 subscribers
  • Views 355 views
  • Users 0 members are here
Options
Related
Hints and tips
  • To quote someone's message, first select/highlight the relevant text, and then use the Quote button that appears
  • To "mention" someone, type @ followed by the start of the forum name, and choose from the list; that person will get a notification of being mentioned

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

  • Good morning from America, Rjat!

    Oh yeah, I’ve been there. When I worked about a year and a half in IT (which was ridiculous because I know practically nothing about computers), I had panic attacks fairly often. Unfortunately my advice isn’t great because the fix for my problem was to take on a different role. I went from doing IT and being a professor to working as a custodian and being a professor.

      ‘s advice to get air more often is pretty spot on. Depending on your job that might require accommodations from your employer to give you more breaks, but if that could make you a better worker then some employers might be open to that.

    It’s good to hear though that you are having both good and bad days. That’s better than only having bad days or having such bad days that the good days don’t even matter.

Reply

  • Good morning from America, Rjat!

    Oh yeah, I’ve been there. When I worked about a year and a half in IT (which was ridiculous because I know practically nothing about computers), I had panic attacks fairly often. Unfortunately my advice isn’t great because the fix for my problem was to take on a different role. I went from doing IT and being a professor to working as a custodian and being a professor.

      ‘s advice to get air more often is pretty spot on. Depending on your job that might require accommodations from your employer to give you more breaks, but if that could make you a better worker then some employers might be open to that.

    It’s good to hear though that you are having both good and bad days. That’s better than only having bad days or having such bad days that the good days don’t even matter.

Children
  • in reply to profdanger

    Ironically I panicked briefly after this and I am just finished a diploma in web applications development despite not being particularly good with IT.

    I’ve actually met with an occupational therapist before I started my current role but I found that none of the reasonable adjustment happened and when it comes to it employers will continue to push you to meet business needs. Maybe I need to get stronger at setting boundaries.

    thanks for the advice! It’s always good to know other people have experienced similar