WAW Walks Away a Second Time

[smilie]

To say that panic is uncomfortable is an understatement. I struggled with them for years.

The best thing to do is to know that the sensations, although intense cannot and will not hurt you. Feel the panic. Actively challenge it to do worse. Panic is fear of the fear. Fear of the sensations that are being caused cause more sensations. The terror of this feeling is what keeps it alive. "So what-ing" it and actively challenging it work.

Thanks for replying, I have read your thread today and saw my situation embedded firmly inside it. It was an eye-opener of sorts and seeing a similar story from somebody else's perspective has helped my thinking of the situation and whether I would accept being treated in such a manner, especially a second time.

As far as the Panic goes, I should know that it's the fear, but for some reason fail to recognise it as such. When I feel it coming on, you're right, it makes it worse as I start to panic about it coming on. I just wished that they didn't have to exist in the first place. For some reason breathing doesn't seem to work, talking does. Taking talking as a pattern interrupt, anything should work. I was hoping to do a workout to interrupt them, but these tablets the Doctor put me on make me head feel weird until after midday.