raven_patronus
04-09-2009, 05:04 AM
Hi there. I am a new member. I have a story to tell you. I feel this is the right place to post this new thread, as I do not know where else.
Since last year, I've been experiencing random moments of panic. It is like everything stops and suddenly feels awful. Sometimes my senses annoy me. It is like I can't stand physical reality anymore and can't stand being in a body. I truly think I am going insane when it happens sometimes. I have no control over making it happen.
For many months it ceased to occur. I almost forgot about it. But recently it has been happening again. It is getting worse. It feels like a "Panic Attack." But according to DSM-IV criteria, they are supposed to last at 30 minutes. Mine only lasts a minute or two. Last night was the worst ever ....I kept waking up with the feeling.
It feels like it is strangling me. I needed to go throw up it was so bad last night, and it happened three times. I could have puked easily. I also had another one yesterday morning, and I almost fainted. I also "believed" my heart would stop. Of course it won't, but it feels like I'm dying sometimes.
This morning when it happened for about 30 seconds...I closed my eyes and tried to think of god and love. After a great effort it went away.
I've also noticed an interesting pattern to them, but only after expericing this about 20 times. They usually seem to happen when I'm feeling lonely OR if I'm surrounded by technology. Like sometimes it has happened when I'm typing. Once it had happened when talking on the phone. I suddenly felt extreme duress at using a phone....my mind was like...why the heck am I using a phone to talk to a living person? Why do people need phones. It is almost like an ephiany in realizing how isolated I feel, and how technology perhaps just brings people further apart.
Maybe I am coming out of the matrix reality at time, or realizing how fake it is? I don't know. I don't have health insurance to see any doctors for this though.
Since last year, I've been experiencing random moments of panic. It is like everything stops and suddenly feels awful. Sometimes my senses annoy me. It is like I can't stand physical reality anymore and can't stand being in a body. I truly think I am going insane when it happens sometimes. I have no control over making it happen.
For many months it ceased to occur. I almost forgot about it. But recently it has been happening again. It is getting worse. It feels like a "Panic Attack." But according to DSM-IV criteria, they are supposed to last at 30 minutes. Mine only lasts a minute or two. Last night was the worst ever ....I kept waking up with the feeling.
It feels like it is strangling me. I needed to go throw up it was so bad last night, and it happened three times. I could have puked easily. I also had another one yesterday morning, and I almost fainted. I also "believed" my heart would stop. Of course it won't, but it feels like I'm dying sometimes.
This morning when it happened for about 30 seconds...I closed my eyes and tried to think of god and love. After a great effort it went away.
I've also noticed an interesting pattern to them, but only after expericing this about 20 times. They usually seem to happen when I'm feeling lonely OR if I'm surrounded by technology. Like sometimes it has happened when I'm typing. Once it had happened when talking on the phone. I suddenly felt extreme duress at using a phone....my mind was like...why the heck am I using a phone to talk to a living person? Why do people need phones. It is almost like an ephiany in realizing how isolated I feel, and how technology perhaps just brings people further apart.
Maybe I am coming out of the matrix reality at time, or realizing how fake it is? I don't know. I don't have health insurance to see any doctors for this though.