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Random waves of fear

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I made the connection accidentally when I was having anxiety attacks on a regular basis. I was trying to exercise again and include healthier things in my diet. I read omega 3 was good generally for you, so I started taking it and noticed that my anxiety attacks would go away extremely fast. Did a quick google search and found that it actually does help anxiety, so it wasn't all in my head.
 
rudeguy said:
Its the vicious cycle:

Something sets you off
Your brain goes stupid and starts panicking
Your body responds to your brain
You brain sees your body responding (heart rate, faster breathing) and starts thinking something is wrong
Body responds even more because brain is telling it something is wrong


I meant it when I said I ended up in the ER. Literally the only thing they could do was pump me full of vallium (through an IV, none of that pill stuff) until I went nuh nite.
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WTF lol is that really whats happening? Yeah mine are lasting an hour or two I'd say.
 
Kushina said:
WTF lol is that really whats happening? Yeah mine are lasting an hour or two I'd say.
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Yep. That's why so many of us told you it was a physical thing to see a doctor about. Being anxious or feeling nervous is one thing. But when your body and your mind are on different pages, its time to ask for help. You can white knuckle it by yourself all you want but its a tough battle.
 
Interesting to see what everyone else is going through. I've had probably fewer than 10 anxiety attacks in my whole life. They're completely out of nowhere, triggered by nothing. One happened in the middle of the night, I just woke up, don't think it was even a nightmare. Another was in the middle of drinking coffee on a boring afternoon. They're rare enough and not as severe as what it sounds like some of you go through, so I don't think much of it.
 
KeithTalent said:
Pretty much every single minute of every day of my life. This is why I keep a box with my personal effects under my desk at all times, because I assume I am always on the verge of being fired even though there has never been an indication this will happen in the 10+ years I have been with my company. I try not to hang out with new people because I assume I all just annoy or disappoint them. It's also why I rarely have a restful sleep. Good times.

KT
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Holy fuck.

I don't have a box under my desk but holy shit KT we sound EXACTLY alike. 😱😱
 
McLovin said:
Holy fuck.

I don't have a box under my desk but holy shit KT we sound EXACTLY alike. 😱😱
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I told KT to come hang out with me. He wont feel so bad about how uncool he is trust me. The three of us should hang out and watch Meatballs the movie and play Diplomacy
 
oldsmoboat said:
No. I control my brain, it doesn't control me. Isn't everyone wired that way?
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Nope, actually, no one is wired that way. The mind is nothing more than the plaything of the body.

But some lucky people, like you and I, are wired in such a way that we feel like we are in control of our own destiny. On the one hand, the illusion of self-determination is a cruel trick for a body to play on a mind, but on the other, it DOES tend to lead to greater personal happiness.

Take the blue pill, OP. It's a better option.
 
IronWing said:
Because we all assumed you were off your meds.







BAZINGA
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manimal said:
I told KT to come hang out with me. He wont feel so bad about how uncool he is trust me. The three of us should hang out and watch Meatballs the movie and play Diplomacy
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Ha!

Well I am significantly close to you now so I'm game but I think KT is still a bit far away for such a gathering.

I'm sure NS1, Fenixgoon, andylawcc, Corporate Thug, or The Steiginator will tell you just how un-amazing I am lol
 
OverVolt said:
Lol you guys have the totally wrong idea on this but I guess I'm not surprised. So long as you aren't on some kind of drug.

Something tells me rudeguy was perhaps a smoker and just did a bad job of smoking within nicotines halflife? Which is 2 hours. So if you skip a day smoking you go into nicotine withdrawal very fast which can definitely cause panic attacks.

It almost always comes back to some kind of drug. Why do you need more drugs to fix the original problem?

So many people totally fail to understand that too much partying will be followed by higher levels of panic/anxiety due to alcohols effect on GABA. I get a little panicky when a hangover subsides for example. I generally don't like the feeling so I don't drink much. People who are alcoholics can die from the withdrawal, making alcohol one of the worst drugs to develop a tolerance on. Even if its just a couple of drinks the difference between not understanding why you are sweating and anxious versus the DT's is just the magnitude of the same biological process.

People are so bad at drinking coffee on a regular basis I'd guess they account for like 80% of all headaches. Caffeine withdrawal after the headache phase also causes anxiety.

Hence why being SOBER of drugs is the least likely to give you anxiety.

Anxiety at that point however, is still an emotion and you just deal with it when it comes up. Since you're a normal person now, it probably has a reason AND serves a purpose. Huzaah! Problems solved. Sometimes you get the emotion before logic can catch up but so long as you cope in the meantime in healthy ways (re: called growing the hell up) you'll be just fine.

Basically when you take any drug your emotions aren't quite "right" for the circumstances withdrawal included.
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Do you have any science you could link to everything you said?
 
OverVolt said:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2528232/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16239158
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I don't really drink, once every couple of weeks if not months, and I definitely do not smoke.

OverVolt said:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9170342

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7433978
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These maybe. I don't really drink a whole lot of soda or caffeine. I've been drinking a lot of Tea lately to curb the soda intake though so I might have traded the sugar/high fructose corn syrup for caffeine in the tea though :-\
 
I drink every few weeks or months, aim is to get wasted but that hasn't happened in a little while. Recently it's been pretty civil. Smoke once or twice a year, menthols.
 
Kushina said:
I drink every few weeks or months, aim is to get wasted but that hasn't happened in a little while. Recently it's been pretty civil. Smoke once or twice a year, menthols.
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He's a typical Internet moron who has no experience or training in what he is talking about. He honestly thinks he knows better than countless doctors that disagree with him.
 
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