Feeling Your Way Through A Panic Attack, 9

If panic attacks joystick your world, leading happens from fear, not intention. Journal Prompt: My intention is to...

Feeling Your Way Through A Panic Attack, 8

The prospect of another panic attack can recoil any forward efforts. Back in line, no risks allowed. Avoidance hotel stays welcome. Journal Prompt: My life feels smaller...

Feeling Your Way Through A Panic Attack, 7

A panic attack is not random. Panic attacks can be activated by something specific, think noun, a person, place, or a thing. Or, panic attacks can happen without a specific trigger, and be a byproduct of stockpiling stressors. It resembles a full balloon slipping from your fingers while you are trying to insert the final puff of stress. Journal Prompts: Nouns that historically trigger panic attacks for me are... I am stockpiling...

Feeling Your Way Through A Panic Attack, 6

A panic attack is the Super Bowl for loss of control feelings. Journal Prompt: I most fear losing control of...

Feeling Your Way Through A Panic Attack, 5

Streaming in, static occupies your head, and electric currents file out to the fingers and toes. Not the currency of a budding first date, no, rather the current of tripping when your perpetrator has about caught up. When a panic attack takes over, it feels like the only thing. Journal Prompt: The take over of a panic attack feels like...

Feeling Your Way Through A Panic Attack, 4

Panic attacks drag feelings of defeat. That is to say, you thought that you had been managing up until now, and then you are clotheslined. Time stands still. In mistrust, you stare beyond the sky. It feels unnecessary to get up anytime soon. Journal Prompt: I feel the most defeated when...

Feeling Your Way Through A Panic Attack, 3

Privacy agreements tend to be tossed aside in panic attacks. The once solo experience, bullies to the surface, leaving you with uninvited exposure. Journal Prompt: For me, panic attacks expose...

Feeling Your Way Through A Panic Attack, 2

Whether it is a bird flying by your alarm sensor or it is an actual threat, in panic, the body struggles to differentiate. Journal Prompt: Unintentional alarms go off when...

Feeling Your Way Through a Panic Attack, 1

What is a panic attack? In the anxiety family, panic attacks tend to dominate your attention and leave you feeling a primal and sweaty version of exhausted. Let’s take the next several days and unpack what happens to the mind and body when you experience a panic attack. Journal Prompt: Panic attacks happen for me when...