'Stay with the program!!!!! It does help!'
I really hope so.
It is so scary to face the fears.
So hard to change.
Thank you for these encouraging words.
In what week are you now?
My attacks can go on for hours too sometimes.
Usually after a period of stress or changes in my life.
Often during those periods I find the tricks I used to distract myself do not work anymore.
That makes me feel I can't do anything to stop the panic and I get even more anxious.
The last weeks I tried to write down the symptoms while having an attack.
To distract myself and to not feel completly helpless.
And I noticed they come in waves too.
Many waves that come one after another.
Yesterday I tried to observe my thoughts as well.
And I noticed the worst of the attack seemed to have past after a quarter of an hour.
I still felt anxious though and as soon as I thought about what triggered the attack (I usually know afterwards) the panic came back again.
That made me wonder whether these long attacks aren't just a series of attacks.
It is like a storm.
My minds keeps racing and racing untill it finally is over.
I belive mine come in waves some last longer and real hard.Others its just like constant anxiety all day.What is hard to figure out after 5 years of having this stupid panic disorder i can never figure my triggers or anything of that nature.Further more i think mine is constant people say let it fly over you worst thing you can do is fight it correct?Well mine last days on end,months on end..ive made so many posts on this topic its bull 30 minutes in rare cases.I must be rare cause i go all day..I wonder is it one big attack waves,or just gad im lost..
OutlaW
Good point. See, I am never one of those "5-10" min panic people. Mine last a very long time and I often wonder if they are just like waves that come one right after the other.
Stay with the program!!!!! It does help!
About three quartrs of an hour ago an hour ago I started to have a panic attack.
Not a ver bad one, I have had panick attacks that were far worse.
But still it scares me.
After 25 years of having attacks and being completly housebound now since more then five years I try to do the panic program.
I am in the first week and try to observe my thoughts.
There is no reason I should not try to to this while in panic too so I try.
My attacks can last for hours sometimes.
At least I think so.
But now as I try to observe the physical symptoms and my thoughts I wonder if it is true.
Could a long lasting attack in fact be a series of attacks?
