Member-only story
People come to me to get rid of panic attacks (PA), and I only recently realized that I myself had one single, but very severe attack a couple of years ago.
I have already written before about what PA looks like and is. You can find my article on the website.
How did it happen to me?
After giving birth, when my son was about 9–10 months old, I was in an anxious state for a very long time, all the time thinking the same anxious thoughts that could not get out of my head.. (classic anxiety disorder).
And one evening, when my son had already fallen asleep and my husband had not yet returned from work, with another such mental and painful chewing gum, I felt that I was starting to feel sick… I went into the kitchen to catch my breath, but then my hands began to shake, the urge to vomit intensified, and my heart began to beat wildly!
And my first reaction to this state was not fear, which usually perpetuates the formation of the PA mechanism, but surprise!
I thought:
“What is this happening to me?!”
And I didn’t have any thoughts that
“I’m dying” or “going crazy”
