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[dozerking]

After hearing about Fez's attacks today, I almost had one myself thinking about it. Anyone else get 'em bad? I get them on a constant basis, almost as bad as what Fez describes on the air. Had one yesterday driving home from work in rush hour, on the highway with a load of traffic, right on 95 going through Philly. It was a f'ing nightmare and I still don't know how I got though it without taking out a few cars on the way off the shoulder. Ironic enough, I was passing through Ronnie B's old stomping ground in Del Co.

Doc gives me Klonopin, which controls the attacks pretty well after the fact, and I'm surprised Fez says it doesn't work well for him. Can't take it during the day though without everyone thinking i'm drinking, it fucks me up pretty good. Anyone able to control these things without pills? :surrender:

[angryhugo]

I get them here and there, usually in a crowded mall or something. I'll start feeling it building up, then it's "I gotta get out of here. NOW!!!" I don't take any pills for it or anything (maybe a xanax here and there, but I usually use them just for sleeping).

I started listening to my Zune most of the time when I'm out shopping or going to be around a lot of people. It pulls my focus away from everyone around me to the music and my enjoyment of it (basically distracting the hell out of myself). It's been working pretty well so far. In a car, the music trick normally works, as does listening to Ronnie B's voice. Hope this helps.

[~Katja~]

I had anxiety attacks for a little while, but it was directly related to my personal circumstances after I separated from my son's father and he kept taking and keeping my kid.
I felt helpless and nobody could help me either. Not legally, nor physically. I was given some meds that I took briefly but did not even finish. Once I got a grip on the situation I was much better and haven't had that kind of anxiety since. Mild ones... yes, but nothing like back then.

[WampusCrandle]

head over to Weird Medicine, my friends.

[Kerouac72]

I recently seemed to have some anxiety over something stupid that I had no control over. For a couple weeks it conumed all my thoughts. Just had to try work though it. I never felt anything like this before, but have a sense of what someone like Fez can go through. Its so irrational but so real.

[Chris from TX]

Occasionally, when stress and depression are simultaneously acute, my heart starts racing and feels like its going to explode. I have the urge to bite myself, or pull my hair, or kick something (all lightly of course, no pain, I'm pussy that way). I don't know if that is a panic attack.

I had a little panic episode recently when I smoked some nice pot (I hadn't smoked in a while, so my tolerance was kind of low) and I got all anxious. That made me feel like a pussy too. Then I got anxious cause I realized I was being a pussy, and so forth. I think I need to start smoking pot regularly again.

[IamPixie]

I started listening to my Zune most of the time when I'm out shopping or going to be around a lot of people. It pulls my focus away from everyone around me to the music and my enjoyment of it (basically distracting the hell out of myself). It's been working pretty well so far.

I do this too. Something extra pussy to calm me down.

[Friday]

I was getting them pretty badly for a while...the debilitating kind.... mostly due to the domestic situation I was in at the time.
Now, I will get them every so often, but I can usually feel them coming on, so I try to take a half a Xanax at the onset and just ride it out.

I find that the more active I am, physically and mentally, the less susceptible I am to the full blown attacks.

[dozerking]

good to see so many people can keep these things under control, I sure as hell can't.

head over to Weird Medicine, my friends.

Dr. Steve over at weird medicine has been a huge help, he needs to be nominated for a nobel or something I swear. I would put his show right up there with the best. Would be great if he had a weekly, or even a monthly show for that matter.

[biggestmexi]

i get the hey i fucjking hate work attacks.

i have to pull a twelve on thursday and then a twelver on sat.:furious:

[AKA]

I'm usually pretty good at talking myself off the ledge. Whenever I get depressed, it is usually tied to something very specific in my life (work, health, stress, deaths, etc), which helps me rationalize it through, even if it is hideous. But that's when I have a clear head. In the last year, however, I've actually noticed that when I have too much caffine (of all things), however, it clouds it - I actually get freaked out easier and paranoid and really annoyed most of the time - which makes it much tougher to see my way out of a depression, which has lead to near panic attacks.

[capper-this]

:wallbash: We Are Not Alone, But life does go on!

[Death Metal Moe]

I was getting them here and there for awhile, then they went away.

Then I was getting them everyday at like 12 pm for a month, then they went away.

Then when I got a new position at work I started getting them again.

It's all stress and it's all in my head but I can't control them at all, just happy they're gone again. But as histor shows, they'll probably come back again.

[donnie_darko]

only in a pussified america would grown men discuss such things in public.

i have never in my life had a panic attack, why? cause i'm not a coddled baby who was sheltered from life's less pleasantries, want to end your "attacks" MAN THE FUCK UP BITCHES.

fight or flight, start fighting or when the skrulls attack you'll be the first to DIE.

fucking skrulls.

[dozerking]

well, if I had something to fight and beat the fuck out of I would, problem is, there's nothing there. When your heart starts pumping a thousand miles an hour, ya kind of wonder wtf is going on. It'll bring anyone to their knees if bad enough

[Death Metal Moe]

only in a pussified america would grown men discuss such things in public.

i have never in my life had a panic attack, why? cause i'm not a coddled baby who was sheltered from life's less pleasantries, want to end your "attacks" MAN THE FUCK UP BITCHES.

fight or flight, start fighting or when the skrulls attack you'll be the first to DIE.

fucking skrulls.

Nice gag.