hi im a newbie

hello everyone

my name is sam and i will give you a shortened version of my experience with all things panic related.

after i had my daughter 15yrs ago i became very postnataly depressed with very severe panic attacks and horrible symptoms i resisted taking any medication for a while but realised i couldnt function properly so started taking anti depressants although they helped greatly i had to learn ways of working with the tablets i was on medication for 8 years living a nearly normal life. then i slowly came off the tablets and all was well until recently a chain of events in my life have sent me back to square one again it has hit me like a sledgehammer and at this moment im struggling to rationalise what is happening to me all the confidence i had is slowly going again i need help to get a grip again i am very good at helping people to cope but not myself if that makes sense i cannot practise what i preach at the moment.

hope someone can give me some pointers.
sam

Hi Sammie,
I am in a similar situation, I was pretty much OK and then there were and are some enormous stressors in my life and I had a Panic attack out of now where about the middle of January, while empting my dishwasher. Of course along came a second a week later and then a third and then I became anxious, worried about the next one. I am detirmined to rid myself of this. I went back to all my old books, which have helped me in the past.
then I came across then Linden method I ordered it and I find it is sound, and very helpful in that it makes perfect sense even though I know most of what he writes about. Charles just puts it in a real and very clear way.
He also had a different concept which I believe to be true and when you grasp it will cure you... Let me tell I have stuggled with Panic since I was 8 and now I am a grandmother.

Welcome to the forum - it is great to see so many new users!

Hello everyone

I can understand what everyone here is going through. I'm new to this forum as I have decided that my new years resolution is to attempt to sort out my panic with social eating out. I'm not as bad as I could be as I'm okay with family but anyone else I feel totally panicky and can't swallow so eating is barely possible! This fortunately doesn't affect my day to day life but does restrict things like if I want to do any kind of further education courses I can't if there will be meal times etc. I've been like this since I was 17 but I think not working after I had my son has made my self image go down. It is inspiring to know that I'm not alone and I hope that we can all help each other in some way. :D

Louise