Re: Some videos
Here are some videos on the topic of panic attacks (I happen to think that the book is much better, but videos are always popular, so I thought I'd post them here

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I rarely get panic attacks luckily, Only if i am up high looking over feel unsafe, but once I had a panic attack when I was in bed at like 2am, it was crazy, I started feeling funny and legs was going, I got up and felt my heart going fast, as I have hypertension and could not breathe I thought I was having a heart attack and rang emergency service but they diagnosed over the phone without coming out that it was a panic attack from my symptoms, it was awful, when it had finally ended I felt exhausted. As as the video says, I was safe, there was no reason for the attack it came out of no where. A few years previous I had one when I was at a shopping mall, I was sitting at a dinery alone and all of a sudden I felt that everything was caving in on me and everyone, but there was hardly anyone around and it was quiet, I ran out of that and when I got into the fresh air I felt ok after, I have had a lot of emotional trauma in my life so linked it to that. Fact my Mother died when I was a child and she was sick through out my childhood and my Dad worked as a long distance truck driver, being only child I was left with everything, but no one really considered what I went thru emotionally really as a child. My Mother was very very sick for years. Then after she died my Dad started to become sick, So I had to deal with everything again. But always felt alone as when I needed someone there was no one there. It was like I was just useful for emergencies for family and had to be strong all the time. From the age of 10 upwards I had to cope. Years after going thru all this I finds myself in my late 30;s and early 40's with severe emotional problems of which were never addressed years ago. Its like the after shock if you like. What made it worse was, my relatives were never bothered about me to want to listen or care. They would just dismiss me and change the subject or run away. As they are hard hearted relatives and just wasnt interested when my Mum got sick and later my Dad got sick. As long as the relatives didnt have to deal with any of it they couldnt have cared less. Which left me pretty much on my own. Until I met my husband and made some friends etc.
But this all I linked with the panic attacks as I believe, no matter whether how small or big horrid event in your life, it can still affect you later on in life, unfortunately when we get old is when we start to get these problems, panic attacks, and other phobias, which all really stems from what happened to us years earlier, Maybe we lost a parent, Maybe something happened to us. anything really.
oh, forgot to add, I did have another panic attack when was at the theatre up high, but this is cause if fear of drops and heights, and when I sat up there there was no barrier and a shear drop and I was so scared I could not breath and it brought on a panic attack, but I knew the reason for it, I crawled down those stairs like a dog out of the theatre and it nearly ruined my night, luckily they seated us on the floor in VIP section. But it was horrid experience, ever since I been trying to face my fear of heights by gradually going to drops, but its taking its time.