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Posted by rjlockhart on February 23, 2007, at 1:27:13
I have experienced panic attacks for now about 3 years, the worst panic attack i had was i was coming home from work on the freeway in traffic. It start very slow, i thought there was not enough oxygen getting to my head. I just blew it over.
As i sat in my car, wait, for turns to turn on and waiting for these people to hurry up, it just happened, something wrong, very wrong, like something, an emotion i have never experienced, a feeling, very intese, i felt my brain was fluttering, i didnt know what was happening was i having a stroke?
my arms tigtined up, i thought i was going to have a heart attack, and plus i couldnt think, i was going to get out of my car in the middle of the traffic (well no one was moving, car wise, there was so much traffic, and yell for help)
I cant tell you, i cant rerember what happened, everything looked like a dream, plus heart flutterings, brain was feeling it had a massive tingling sensation, in the way i cant describe.
Well it stopped, because, well i prayed, wispered, silently saying make it stop. and prayed and prayed, and finally yelled for christ. It stopped, everything started to ease up.
I went back to normal but i was INCREDIBLY exhausedted, and still had to drive home in this traffic.
I have had one out of body experience, it was on news years eve, i was in my brothers car, same thing happened, exept this time, i wasnt in my body, i felt i was not even existing but i was talking at the same time to my brother,
i was trying my best to stay calm, i held on to the top thing in the car, everything was a dream, when i was talking i thought it was a dream. It was so incredibly out of reality.
What causes this?
By the way i didnt have Xanax with me to take, but what causes this.
And really what is happening to the brain during Out of body experiences?
rj
Posted by yxibow on February 23, 2007, at 3:06:47
In reply to Out of body Experiences - dissociation, posted by rjlockhart on February 23, 2007, at 1:27:13
Dysphoria and disassociation can come because of medication and also because of the lack of medication.
I'm not quite sure where my disassociation lies, but I know I'm not the same person who I was in college. I have to leave that person behind and create something new. Something better.
I went to college in the northwest and I take a trip up there most years. Last year I experienced at least two to three panic attacks in my friend's condo -- I couldn't go anywhere, I felt frozen. I wasted some of the days that I drove up there for to explore my past because I couldn't get out the door. I tried as hard as I could, but I laid under the covers.
This, coming from someone who went on a previous year to the Arctic Ocean all the way from California. Different times. Different medication levels. Who knows. Loved that trip. There's nothing like seeing 24 hour daylight. But I digress.
But I know a panic attack while driving. I feel like I have to stare straight ahead. I can't look to the right, it feels inexplicably wierd. Have to keep some music or something going to keep me going. I've had that several times. I love roadtrips but sometimes these things just happen. And its harder on my system now with a Somatiform disorder dragging me down to do the things I love, like driving for hours in the desert or up north.
Xanax helps quell these things, but for obvious reasons time has to be left before resuming driving. I take Xanax PRN though only, because I would get too used to it.
I don't know, that's my experience of disassociation.
-- tidings
Posted by Phillipa on February 23, 2007, at 10:08:00
In reply to Re: Out of body Experiences - dissociation » rjlockhart, posted by yxibow on February 23, 2007, at 3:06:47
Strange I get panic thoughts at going to Florida as my first panic attacke occurred here. Love Phillipa
Posted by FredPotter on February 26, 2007, at 14:22:16
In reply to Re: Out of body Experiences - dissociation » yxibow, posted by Phillipa on February 23, 2007, at 10:08:00
I was reading in New Scientist the other day about the "anniversary effect" where symptoms recur - well you know. You don't even have to know it consciously is an anniverasry. Oy! Come back Sigmund! You were right after all
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