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What triggers your panic attack?

Bornstarch

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I started having panic attacks right after the pandemic. Never had them before in my life, I thought I was having a heart attack.

It's impossible to describe the feeling to someone who hasn't had one other than it's fucking terrible.

I just had one for the first time in awhile.

This forum that I've been going to since the early 2000s is officially dead. It's a gaming forum specifically for Team Fortress Classic and Counter Strike. I have no way to contact the people I know from there. I can't read the old threads anymore. The forum has been pretty much inactive for awhile, an average of 1 new post per year for over 10 years. But it was still nice to know they're there. Knowing that it's over gave me a panic attack.


My 2 triggers are when I'm feeling sad like above or when I'm feeling claustrophobic.
 
Never had one in my life.
Sorry TS.
Can't help you.
 
Only had one, ex pulled down a bunch of cables after trying to break in a ton of times and stalking me for a month. I ended up in A&E, it all just got too much. After he chased me up the road with a pool cue and burned my house down I didn't have a panic attack, but that one just got me.
 
UGH, I miss TF2 like the desert misses the rain. As far as your panic attacks... Everyone has anxiety, everyone has depressive states. the difference is some people have the tools to manage these things and some people don't. Just look back to before you grew a vagina and use the tools you had then.
 
For me I haven't had in awhile, but it is usually triggered by social settings. I use to get bad social society and would just take off during events or classes or anything with a bunch of people.
 
I'd say being in a stressful situation for a prolonged period of time, such as having a stressful job.

I also blamed the hayfever medication Citrizine Hydrochloride, or "The Green One". Even when I was working less stressful jobs, I'd still struggle at the time of year when I'd take them. I think my body just reacted badly to it at a particularly stressful and mentally demanding time in my life.

I found that the breathing issues went on their own. Focusing on trying to moderate breathing and to "calm down", just made things worse, like holding a fart.
 
Damn I want to play team fortress now. I used to be ok at TF2. I wasn't some ranked player but I would be number 1 in pub games.
 
Going to sound pretty insensitive but I legit have no idea how an adult has one, and I have been through some absolute shit.

Strikes me as an issue people have that have been through tough times before.

As a side note as a paramedic/firefighter I have noticed a massive increase in panic attacks in the last 5-10 years. Overall mental health in the country is absolutely declining. I've had my medic license for about 15 years now and this wasn't a big thing when I first got into the field.
 
Idk but I had anxiety in my late teens. All my friends were gone off to different colleges and I didn't know anyone at the school I was going to. I also didn't know what I wanted to do with my life. But then I switched schools and met a girl and it all went away.
 
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