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Panic Attacks

Coogybear

Writing with no glasses so please excuse the errors if their are any,

I'm suffering with a growing number of panic attacks and struggling to manage them. Anything will trigger them, a letter, a thought, a phone call even, and they are becoming quite debilitating.

They start in the solar plexus and move up to the chest like a crushing heavy weight on me, I struggle to breath and my heart races. It's hard to move even. It feels like my heart will stop at any moment.

I've tried slow, deep, breathing (Something I do with my son if he has a meltdown) but I cannot seem to centre myself. This dreadful feeling of foreboding comes over me.

Not being able to identify the triggers is not helping much either. Although nights with my son recently have been a little fraught, so I'm not sure if lack of sleep is a factor.

My experience with panic attacks is that I have always had them, but just not this severe. Is this a hormonal thing perhaps? Has anyone else had escalating problems with age?

Rumination has always been an issue for me and I'm now aware of the patterns of such thoughts, but how do I regain control of my senses?

Mindfulness has helped in the past, but seems inafective just now. Any suggestions?

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  • Hi socks, No help I'm afraid. No suppot workers other than myself and my husband. To be honest, as bad as it sounds, I kind of prefer it that way now. Badly let down by a targeted youth worker in the past, who didn't even say goodbye to my son when he disappeared. He found this highly distressing.

    Time was we used to divide care between myself and my husband, but my hubby's had to up his hours slightly to make up for lost carers allowance. (*** up by CA, Long story.) Trying to muddle on the best we can really, but feeling the stress.

    Developed a stammer on top of my tremmor, just after Christmas which I've never had before in my life. Going back to my GP early this week hopefully, but when I mentioned the tremmor last he seemed unphased. My Dad died of Parkinsons and my mum of a Stroke, both very young, so I don't want to over think things.

    Once I've seen the GP, i'M going to try and get away for a day this week to lighten the load.

    Thanks for all your advice Guy's. You truly are a rock when people are most in need.

    Cxx

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  • Hi socks, No help I'm afraid. No suppot workers other than myself and my husband. To be honest, as bad as it sounds, I kind of prefer it that way now. Badly let down by a targeted youth worker in the past, who didn't even say goodbye to my son when he disappeared. He found this highly distressing.

    Time was we used to divide care between myself and my husband, but my hubby's had to up his hours slightly to make up for lost carers allowance. (*** up by CA, Long story.) Trying to muddle on the best we can really, but feeling the stress.

    Developed a stammer on top of my tremmor, just after Christmas which I've never had before in my life. Going back to my GP early this week hopefully, but when I mentioned the tremmor last he seemed unphased. My Dad died of Parkinsons and my mum of a Stroke, both very young, so I don't want to over think things.

    Once I've seen the GP, i'M going to try and get away for a day this week to lighten the load.

    Thanks for all your advice Guy's. You truly are a rock when people are most in need.

    Cxx

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