Panick Attacks

Before practising Balancing Belle, my panic attacks looked and felt like this:

My personal symptoms:

A racing heart

Feeling faint and dizzy

Feeling sock or nauseous 

Experiencing hot flushes 

Need to constantly go to the toilet

Feeling disconnected from the environment, as if i am not really there or it is different or strange somehow

Sweating

Shakey

Pains in arms

Pins and needles

My thoughts:

I am going to die

I am abou tto collapse or faint

I am about to lose co trol of my bowels

I am going mad

I am about to vomit

I am making a complete fool of myself in front of others

I am being really stupid

My behaviour:

An overwhelming need to escape the situation and return to a place of safety.

A desire to avoid the places or situations where I have had previous panic attacks

Fear of new places or closed spaces.

Note to self:

People faint because their blood pressure is too low and not enough oxygen is getting to the brain. In a panic attack your heart beats faster than usual and your blood pressure rises. This is exactly the opposite of what happens when you faint, So IT CAN'T HAPPEN!

I am not cured (as that will never happen) and recently came out of recovery, but I am working hard to get myself back there and I have done it before and so will do it again.

-Tanya-