My Very First Panic Attack

Welcome to the blog of an average year-old 'panic-girl' which is etremely anxious and worried.

WHAT IS A Panic attack
Panic attacks usually has three important ways:
First consists of intense feelings of fear and anxiety;
Second usually occurs suddenly and
Third usually lasts for a relatively short time.

Panic is usually accompanied by a feeling that something terrible happens. You think that you will die, go mad, make a fool of yourself or something else ... so many different fears, and how many people who have panic attacks. For some people panic comes from "nowhere". In other words, a panic attack was totally unexpected and seems to not unprovoked. Some people still possible to recognize certain situations in which an attack usually happens.
Panic attacks are very common and normal and not a sign of serious mental illness. It is known that one in ten people in the world has at least one panic attack in my life. Many people have panic attacks for some time, but then these attacks are gone. In other people it can cause problems for some time. Many people wait years before they tell anyone or seek professional help, and some never at all or do not seek help.

My first panic attack occurred was in 1998. year, and since then until today (2006.) are persistently struggling with anxiety. There are better and worse periods ... But for a long time there was excellent. But he is still hope!

This blog was conceived as a source of information for those like me, then the ciphered F.nešto diagnosis. In fact, I myself had to scan hundreds of websites that I came up with some concrete information - so here I will try to incorporate as much useful information.

Of course, I came to the conclusion that in fact except here and there by the ancient forum with just a few posts actually no space (or virtual, let alone real) for gathering people with similar problems, except perhaps in the hospitals ... And who likes the hospital?

On physical examination or the first appointment with a psychiatrist (which can somewhat help, as opposed to a general practitioner) waits one here for weeks and even months. Nobody thinks that in the meantime we need to survive and endure much more suffering, most often with themselves due to lack of understanding of the environment. Many of us are also employed for a maximum duration of sick leave expires, even before they get appointment with a psychiatrist, let alone start with treatment. Commission naively expect that the extension of sick leave at least until the first positive results of treatment that usually does not accept the fact. In the meantime, it remains only to suffer panic attacks, fainting and vomiting, and in that period and to develop an anxiety disorder due to the untimely commencement of treatment of panic disorder. And due to the aforementioned inability of normal functioning, and often going out of the house and develop depression - I myself have found himself in a situation when you fired it seems the best solution, at least until they recover. Well, here again comes the question of existence, which in turn causes a depressed mood. The circle is closing and we fall deeper and deeper.

Thinking that we are constantly arises is the following:
First
In private specialists - psychiatrists terms are obtained in a relatively short time, but are quite expensive and most of the average 'panics' can not afford their services.
Second
Most people with panic attacks also suffer from agoraphobia and fear to move away from home, and so go to a psychiatrist whose private practice is usually somewhere in the city center. Therefore, they must make superhuman efforts to physically come to the general practice.
Third Question:
Why do not we have joined together and hired (and paid) that same private sector to come 'in our area' or in our neighborhood and help us in the form of group therapy, or at least community support? Perhaps the outdoors, for those who suffer from claustrophobia? Finally, pay it and we have the right to determine the time and place (of course, with the agreement).