What Causes An Anxiety Attack?

I had my first panic attack at work. Our whole department was doing one of those “team bonding” things and we were all sat in a big circle. Each person was telling us a little bit about themselves, what they were working on, how they came to be working for this company etc. As each person spoke, as it came nearer and nearer to me my heart just started beating faster and faster, I started to get hot and sweaty, I was finding it hard to breathe and eventually I had to get up and run out of the room! I told my colleagues that I felt sick (I didn’t mention the anxiety attack) and I went home. I actually went to my doctor, and it was then that I found out I had just experienced my first panic attack! From then on my fear of public speaking developed into a general fear of going to work (well, you never know when you might have to speak in front of people do you?) and I had to give up a job I really loved. I had had mild anxiety before, I had been through the fear of dying thing during my late teens and I was also scared of flying – but not enough to stop me going on holiday! My only phobia was bats but you can easily manage to avoid them! But this was something different – this was affecting my whole life. I couldn’t go to work anymore, and not only did I enjoy working, but to be quite honest, we needed the money! My husband was very patient – to begin with, but even he began to lose patience when the symptoms of my panic attacks carried on for months and months and seemed to be getting worse and worse. I started to get frightened of just going out of the house ( agoraphobia ? ) and even driving – which I used to love started giving me anxiety. In fact that was when I decided I had had enough. It was just getting ridiculous, not being able to go to work and now not being able to drive my car! Like most people these days I started searching for answers on the internet, and like most people these days I treated everything I read with a good dose of cynicism. There were a few reasons that made me try Panic Away. The man who created it, Barry Joe Mc Donagh was a panic attack sufferer himself, so he knew what we all go through. There was an eight week period that you could try it for and still get a refund (and it was sold through Clickbank which I knew is a big and reliable company) Also, there was a free newsletter that you could subscribe to and just reading that made me feel like I had found the answer to my panic disorder and it would all be all right. Mail this post

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