TheBanyanTree: A Panic Attack

[Monique Colver]

But I'm not a sensitive person.

I'm pretty oblivious most of the time.





On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Linda DeMerle <Twigllet at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Yeah, me, too.  When we buried, or interred my uncle in May, and then my
> aunt, 30 days later on my birthday, I was amazed I was holding it all
> together all so well…then my sister-in-law's mom passed.  Talk about the
> straw.  *That put me in the hospital."  I wasn't *that* close to her, but
> we have all lvdd her for years and on Father's Day, we'd all, including
> aunt and uncle, have a shindig.  Fun people.  Mary's mom was always
> laughing…anyway…the hammer came down.
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> In my case, they (docs) don't want me feeling anything out of the ordinary
> in my chest, so, I have nitros, however, I haven't needed to take one in a
> very long time. That said, I understand that anxiety is close at hand and
> comes and goes, less so as I get older.  So far.  Anyway, it's part of
> being a sensitive person, which includes many positives, as well.
>
> xoxo
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> On May 9, 2013, at 8:46 AM, "Teague, Julie Anna" <jateague at indiana.edu>
> wrote:
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> > Yes, she's got it exactly.  Mine used to be of the "I'm having a heart
> > attack" variety.  They got so bad a few times I went to the emergency
> > clinic thinking maybe I really was having a heart attack, only to be
> > diagnosed with "stress".   But in my case, I did figure out the source.
> > And divorced him.  I haven't had an attack like that since then.
> > I've had the heart-fluttering, oh-my-god-these-kids-depend-on-me,
> > overwhelmed single parent kind of panic a couple of times, but never
> > again the feeling that I'm trapped like an insect in a jar and am going
> > to have my wings torn off over and over again until I die kind of
> > stress.
> >
> > Julie
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