Do you ever freak out?

[gmoney]

I had an anxiety attack today! It' been almost a year since the last one. A little stress at work and at home, I guess. I was out on a service call and when it hit me, I had to get home ASAP! Got home, had a nauseua bout, the shakes, the sweats, the rapid heartbeat and all. Then I went and locked myself in my room for the day. Now I have to explain why I didn't get my work done tomorrow.
Do any of you guys ever have this crap happen to you? How do you deal with the aftermath? I know I won't be right for a couple of days. Guess I just needed to vent a little. Sorry guys.

 

[hotdog1846]

I worry a lot, but as far as bona-fide anxiety attacks ...

I had one when I shaved my head for the first time. I went from full head of hair and a full beard to totally bald and a goatee all at once. Even though I did it deliberately, I had a full-fledged anxiety attack. It was a shock, losing all my hair at once -- it felt like I'd cut off my hand or something.

I went to work early the next morning, still having a lot of anxiety, and let everybody get used to the way I looked, explained to my managers that I was having bad anxiety bouts and wasn't in any shape to work, then took the next few days off and went to the mountains to get used to myself.

Might that work for you?

 

[ahotjock71]

I get freaky, and I'm out, does that count?

Seriously, sorry to hear about your PA (ok, stop the snickering! I hear all of you!), they can often be debilitating.

Try meditating a few hours the next couple of days. You'll be back to your sweet self in no time.

 

[metta]

Does freaking out when I see a rattlesnake in my yard count? I hate those things so much I'm thinking about buying some California King Snakes to eat them.

Last week I was cutting some bushes that are next to the house and I put my hand right where a rattlesnake was sitting...ooops...hate that...

 

[Andreus]

i have ptsd

ativan has done wonders for both my anxiety and my disposition

the next time put ice cubes on your wrists too

and as for work?

just tell them you ate something bad and had a mild case of food poisoning. you really were sick. they dont need to know the details.

 

[Homoerectus]

I've had a high stress job for 32 years. Sixteen years ago I finally learned to forget the job when I exit the building. I work very hard every day and I do the very best I job I can. When the work load becomes too great, I tell the boss I have X number of projects and ask which he want my team to do first. I'm a lot calmer on the inside than I used to be because I no longer hold in the stress and worry. When someone is wrong I don't hesitate to tell them. I don't dance around the problem, I tackle it straight forward. My ulcers and acid reflux disease have disappeared. I no longer have bouts of depression and withdrawals. Give it a try.

 

[james1200]

gmoney...sorry about your anxiety attack.

half my friends (including me at one time) are/were on anti-anxiety or anti-depressive meds...join the club. paxil is a goodie...and tho i personally hate them, a lotta people i know love their valium and xanax. your best bet tho is zoloft...that's one great drug.

 

[Christopher123]

I had an anxiety attack today! It' been almost a year since the last one. A little stress at work and at home, I guess. I was out on a service call and when it hit me, I had to get home ASAP! Got home, had a nauseua bout, the shakes, the sweats, the rapid heartbeat and all. Then I went and locked myself in my room for the day. Now I have to explain why I didn't get my work done tomorrow.
Do any of you guys ever have this crap happen to you? How do you deal with the aftermath? I know I won't be right for a couple of days. Guess I just needed to vent a little. Sorry guys.

Never apologize for venting.

I've had a few panic attacks, but they were mostly self-induced. I 'talk myself into it', basically. For example, I'm deathly allergic to penicillin. When it was first given to me, my face and my neck swelled up so bad that it cut off my air. I was about half dead by the time they got me to the hospital because I couldn't breathe. So like about 6 or 7 months ago I had a really bad respiratory infection. My doctor failed to notice that I had put on my chart that I was allergic to penicillin and prescribed me a penicillin-based antibiotic. I took one pill and then a bit later I went and looked the drug up online to see if I should watch what I eat and/or drink while taking it (making sure there were no food or drug interaction precautions). When I saw the drug I had taken was penicillin-based, I freaked. It was already in my body and most likely absorbed, nothing I could do about it.

I went into a panic (scared shitless the same thing would happen to me again) and my heart started racing and I felt like I was gonna pass out. I had to sit down because I was so panicked. I called my doctor's office and chewed them out for not paying close enough attention to my medical history and they told me all I could do at that point was wait to see if I developed any reactions and if I did to call 911.

So I sat there for about an hour in a complete panic just waiting for the penicillin to hit me in a bad way, which, thankfully, it never did. It was a very mild form of penicillin, not the straight-up dose I had taken that landed me in the hospital.

So that's what I mean by my 'panic attacks' are pretty much self-induced. It's a mind over matter thing.

 

[just_mills]

Wow, sorry to hear about that fella.
Can't really contribute much use to this thread, () but I hope you feel better ASAP.
All the best!

 

[BrandonSBCA]

I only had it happen to me once. I can't even remember what I did after it happened.

 

[numerobis]

Sorry about that Gmoney, it seems that you have a lot of preoccupations right now. Some people are able to control them as most of these problems are mental. There are several medicines for people that tend to live with this problem but if this is something that happens infrequently the best medicine is what you did, taking a rest!

I don’t know if it’s related but sometimes when I have more duties and responsibilities than what I could handle I tend to have this breakdowns but they manifest themselves by shutting me down in an explosive mental stress as I am unable to do all things that preoccupy me, once I woke up sweating and shaking saying that I would renounce from work, thanks god that when I get to the office the next day my breakdown was over.

 

[secondmonkey]

I pretty much panic all day every day. About once a week or so I end up blacking out from a panic attack. Anything I ever do I always obsess about the worst possible outcome. I've had a few prescriptions, but they don't seem to help much...and going back to the doctor just makes me panic even more.

Isn't life great?