Panic Attack: How I Eliminated Panic Attacks From My Life Forever
My first encounter with a panic attack came at the age of twenty-nine. From what I’ve learned from reading and by talking to other panic attack sufferers, this was later than usual. Most panic sufferers that I’ve spoken with or read about had their first panic attack either in their teens or early twenties.
Mine occurred whilst I was driving to see my parents one Friday evening in June 1985. Thinking back, aside from the usual panic attack symptoms, I think the most terrifying part was that I didn’t have a clue as to what was happening to me. I’d never, up to that point, experienced anything so intense and frightening.
I have heard that some people suffer one isolated attack and then it goes away forever. This wasn’t to be in my case, after that first incident, I started having panic attacks very frequently whilst travelling and this led me to developing a phobia toward travelling by any form of transport.
Probably, the worst thing about my panic encounters was the fact that they would strike me, seemingly, out of nowhere and for no apparent reason. I...