Power over panic: case historiesCarolyn It had been a long and difficult week. Carolyn was glad she now had some time to herself. She curled up on the lounge with a book she had been wanting to read. As she relaxed she felt the tension ease from her body and she felt herself drifting into sleep. Without warning, she felt a wave of incredible energy surge through her body. As it moved through her, her heart rate doubled, she had difficulty breathing, she felt lightheaded and dizzy, a wave of nausea swept over her and she began to perspire. She jumped up and ran outside to her husband. 'Help me, something is happening to me, I don't know what but something is very wrong.' Alex Alex disliked staff meetings and social get togethers and did what he could to avoid them. He felt more comfortable just doing his job and avoiding any personal interaction with other staff. Now the new owners of the business had arranged a dinner for all staff and their partners and, like it or not, Alex had to go. He had been feeling uncomfortable all day and he knew his anxiety levels were very high. As he and his wife sat down at their table the people next to them began to make conversation. His heart began to race, his breathing became short and shallow, he began to perspire heavily and his hands trembled violently. As he tried to control it, he thought to himself, I shouldn't have come. This always happens every time I am in this situation. Jessica Jessica turned on the ignition of her car. She was feeling very anxious. Is it going to happen today? As she pulled out of her driveway she tried to rationalise with herself for the hundredth time. She wasn't frightened of driving, in fact she used to enjoy driving before she began to have spontaneous panic attacks. But there was one set of traffic lights where she would sometimes have an attack. There was no pattern to it. Sometimes it happened, sometimes it didn't. Sometimes she would have an attack after she had driven through the traffic lights; on other days there were no attacks at all. Someone had told her she was frightened of that particular intersection, but she thought that was ridiculous. She was frightened of the attacks and their unpredictable nature, it had nothing to do with the intersection. *3\94\8* Anti-Depressants/Sleeping Aid «Viagra Online» |