The Nuisance of Panic Disorder
...and it IS a nuisance. It can disrupt your life, intrude in your thoughts, prevent you from sleeping properly, cause you to avoid situations and people, places. Make you alter your life in ways you wouldn't have if you were still 'normal'.
How does panic disorder happen and what is it?
Once you have had a panic attack you start to worry when you'll have your next one. This then brings on the next one and so on, so forth. Before you know what's happening, you're living in constant fear and anxiety. Experiencing attack after attack with no sign of ever recovering. You're jumpy, suspicious, evasive. Your thoughts become intrusive, disturbing. You begin to question your sanity*. You may even be depressed with suicidal thoughts. You worry about your physical health all the time. Your inward focus is centred on your mortality. You can't help it, there are new aches and pains every day. Surely your heart must be weaked by the constant strain it is under. WRONG**. All this kind of thinking is WRONG. But forgive yourself. Because you don't realise this but you are EXHAUSTED. Your body has been fuelled with the adreneline needed to save your life for however long you have been 'suffering' from panic disorder. It has been tricked into thinking that you are on the run from something that will kill you or in battle with a deadly foe. As you and I know, things always seem worse when you're tired. If you're living with panic disorder, you are OVERTIRED. Forgive yourself for not understanding what was happening to you. Get some sleep. You deserve it!
*Let me tell you now, if you question your sanity YOU ARE NOT INSANE. Insane people or those with mental handicaps think they are normal as they do not know any different.
**If people knew how thick their heart muscle really was, (and we all know muscles get even stronger with exercise) they wouldn't worry!
How does panic disorder happen and what is it?
Once you have had a panic attack you start to worry when you'll have your next one. This then brings on the next one and so on, so forth. Before you know what's happening, you're living in constant fear and anxiety. Experiencing attack after attack with no sign of ever recovering. You're jumpy, suspicious, evasive. Your thoughts become intrusive, disturbing. You begin to question your sanity*. You may even be depressed with suicidal thoughts. You worry about your physical health all the time. Your inward focus is centred on your mortality. You can't help it, there are new aches and pains every day. Surely your heart must be weaked by the constant strain it is under. WRONG**. All this kind of thinking is WRONG. But forgive yourself. Because you don't realise this but you are EXHAUSTED. Your body has been fuelled with the adreneline needed to save your life for however long you have been 'suffering' from panic disorder. It has been tricked into thinking that you are on the run from something that will kill you or in battle with a deadly foe. As you and I know, things always seem worse when you're tired. If you're living with panic disorder, you are OVERTIRED. Forgive yourself for not understanding what was happening to you. Get some sleep. You deserve it!
*Let me tell you now, if you question your sanity YOU ARE NOT INSANE. Insane people or those with mental handicaps think they are normal as they do not know any different.
**If people knew how thick their heart muscle really was, (and we all know muscles get even stronger with exercise) they wouldn't worry!
posted by Ggirl | 6:16 am
1 Comments:
OH, it surely IS a nuisance! I've suffered from Panic Attacks for the last 5 years, and they're very scary! And, you're right... the more you fear them, the worse they get.
I find that even just THINKING about my anxiety & panic attacks will sometimes make my heart start to race, and soon I'm into a full-blown panic attack, just from my thoughts! :?
Ugh.
But, at least I *know* I'm not having a heart-attack! (even though it still feels like it sometimes!)
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