Panic Attacks etc

Hi all...
Reading the sensible posts yesterday-Dubbers, pants et al.

Been there as well. Mine was connected with the big C though I didn't know it at the time-it was like my mind and body knew something was not right but I, maybe not wanting to know "for real" on some level, didn't.

Woke up one night and simply cannot describe how I felt-it was like something in my body was trying to rip its way out of me. Normally when you don't feel well or 'right', you can ofter at least crash out and find a relatively comfy/calming position to lie in-but I couldn't and thats what wiorried me the most, it was like it was there and wasn't going to go anywhere-ever...

Remember shaking and my wife holding me as I said, in some desperation, "what is WRONG with me?" -the unknown and the seeming permanance of it at the time was awful.

So huge sympathies and support for everyone else out there.

If only such health issues and struggles were like headaches and you could just take a pill and it would all be gone.

But its way beyond that. I was told to "calm down" -but you can't, simple as. You want to. But you can't. It felt, at times, like it was about as useful as someone asking the sun not to rise in the mornings.

As a bloke I felt compelled to keep it all in house so to speak. Its good that the Wrath can talk and support so candidly as well as share. Top work everyone.

Hasn't been an issue for me for a while now but you sort of know its always there in the background (didn't Churchill call something similar "the black dog"?) and can't ever take it for granted.

Respect.

Posted By: Martin Peters, Dec 23, 09:28:58