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I didn't even finish with the paragraph before I started thinking, "Oh, sounds like panic attacks, which suck but can be managed."Sackwak said:
This is my personal experience, having fought anxiety and panic for about 20 years (more, if you count all the years I didn't know what was happening to me and everyone else was just writing if off as teenage angst and drama-mongering.)
I was treated under the standard theory, which is that panic attacks are you body triggering the fight-or-flight response way too easily. I always compare it to a crappy car alarm. Sure, it goes off if someone tries to jack your car. It also goes off if a cat walks over your car, or if someone sets a coffee cup on the hood, or a bus drives by and shakes it, etc.
None of these treatments worked. Tranks and anti-anxiety meds just made it harder to control my response to the panic and did nothing to assuage the panic itself.
It wasn't until I got treated, in my late 30's no less, for ADD that my panic attacks stopped. It turns out that people with ADD have a hard time focusing and filtering out extraneous stimuli, and so get overwhelmed with too much input, like an electrical circuit being overloaded until it blows out. I mention this since you seem to be getting these attacks in situations where there is just a lot of information coming at you.
There are lots of techniques to deal with this, as well as medication options. With any luck, you'll find a doctor who is willing to listen rather than just throw pills at you.
As other people mentioned, however, this could be an indicator of a lot of medical problems, even something as simple as an ear infection. All you are going to get off the internet, when it comes right down to it, is personal experiences, smart-assed remarks, and encouragement to go to the doctor for a real diagnosis. I recommend the third.
somebody has pulled.Saskwach said:
But yes you might want to have a few more tests you never know things might get worse and you may end up fainting and then who knows what. But hay may just be me and my paranoia. Im on to you god *shakes fist at god*
What the hell are you asking people here for? Have the doc examine your head for even thinking about it when you go and see him. Good lord man!
Now, I have had similar problems and amazingly enough it was from airborne allergies, or so it seems. I can see anxiety playing a part as well. There are medications for both, but I think the anxiety one makes you practically retarded and you start drooling on yourself you are so out of it. If you get really dizzy, could be a minor form of vertigo as well. An ENT can tell you for sure.
So, good luck!
Now, I have had similar problems and amazingly enough it was from airborne allergies, or so it seems. I can see anxiety playing a part as well. There are medications for both, but I think the anxiety one makes you practically retarded and you start drooling on yourself you are so out of it. If you get really dizzy, could be a minor form of vertigo as well. An ENT can tell you for sure.
So, good luck!