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"What is happening to me?"
Imagine this: You are in the grocery store, looking at the absurd price for a gallon of milk when all of the sudden, your bloodstream feels as if someone lit a match to it. You realize you can hear all of the conversations happening in the store, but noticed they are muffled, like someone muted them to a point where you can still hear your own thoughts. Tunnel vision sets in and at the same time, you notice body parts start to tingle while your heart is in your throat beating at a mile a minute.
“What is happening to me?” You think to yourself.
A week later you are in the mall, looking for a new pair of shoes when: it happens again. Cold sweat drips down your forehead, your heart is beating at a full marathon pace, and you can feel your stomach beginning to squeeze: feelings of a chemical surge run through your body.
“Not again.”
Several days later you are driving to pick up your grocery order and at the red light you feel it starting, again. You pull over to avoid any serious injuries from occurring and begin to suspect something is seriously wrong. Because there is no way you can feel like this if you are not sick, right? RIGHT?
You go to your primary care physician who says your blood work is phenomenal and there is no signs of any medical conditions. The cycle continues as you now fear public spaces, driving, and being in any situation where you are ‘out of control’ due to the uncertainty of “Will it happen again?”
So with a clean bill of health, you go to no other than, GOOGLE, type in your systems and their lies the answer.
“A panic attack.”
You read further from the National Institute of Mental Health : “These attacks are characterized by a sudden wave of fear or discomfort or a sense of losing control even when there is no clear danger or trigger.”
“Researchers have found that several parts of the brain and certain biological processes may play a crucial role in fear and anxiety. Some researchers think panic attacks are like “false alarms,” where our body’s typical survival instincts are active either too often or too strongly, or some combination of the two.”
“What now?”
Break the cycle.
Learn how to become comfortable with feeling uncomfortable.
Create a tool box.
And so much more.
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