Posted by cybercafe on August 7, 2002, at 23:30:28
In reply to Re: How Parnate saved my butt » cybercafe, posted by Ritch on August 7, 2002, at 9:53:02
> They tend to come on very rapidly. My experience is a sudden feeling of depersonalization and unreality followed immediately by flushed skin with racing heartbeat
(often sweating hands, too). I just bite my lip, pinch my arm and ride it out. They usually last about 20-30 seconds or so. The trouble is when the damn things fade and then come back and repeat over and over. I think I would be oddly *relieved* if it *were* a heart attack instead.i tend to get really embarrassed and feel like i'm going to lose control... voice cracks, feel like i'm going to start crying or otherwise lose control... but just as i realize i'm about to cry or something i get an even more major adrenalin rush... as i can't believe it's going to happen or let it happen... and i then put fourth great effort to try and cover up my physical symptoms by... distracting my audience... by..talking faster? ... or trying to act like my totally unbased emotions of FEAR and shame and embarrassment are based on something real (i.e. bring up a topic or talk about something in a way that is based on real emotion) ... or just wait for the fear to go away meanwhile completely not believing that anyone can experience so much fear... and in response to nothing...
so at first did you think it was a heart attack or some other deathly illness? ... i ask because diagnostic criteria indicates that a panic attack is a belief you are going to die/are having a heart attack
> There's no way I can really find out, because my moods cycle so rapidly. :)
hmmm... i find cycling goes away when i totally eliminate all stress (don't leave my house except for martial arts or to visit friends or to work out?)
i guess it's weird that parnate doesn't cause me to cycle at all though
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