@averagebear
Average Bear
@averagebear · 4:57

I didn’t know panic attacks are this bad

I feel like I've swallowed so much sadness and pain and heartbreak that my body is full of it, full of that sadness and that heartbreak, and it's starting to come out. And I had never had a panic attack before. And I remember my chest just feeling tight, not knowing why I'm feeling like that. So I'm thinking I'm having a heart attack or something. And blood pressure is high and just feeling lightheaded

#anxiety #panicattack #depression #mentalhealth #mentalwellness

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@zaireukuu
Zaire Ukuu
@zaireukuu · 4:50

@averagebear

Mentally, I didn't know what was going on. My body was just going through the motions, and I'm breathing heavy, and I just didn't know what to do. Luckily for me, I immediately called a friend that I could trust, and that goes through certain things that knew enough information. And immediately he woke up. He heard me. I was bawling. I was crying my a** off. And he was like, oh, s***
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@ZLisbon
Zara Lisbon
@ZLisbon · 5:00
At 32, after being medicated for I guess 13 years, I've been on meds, antidepressants and anti anxiety medications. And so at this point in my life, I feel like I have a very bad panic attack only like once every six months. And because it's that infrequently, I do just go ahead and take a clonipin, which is in the same family as Adavan. They're both benzodiazepines. And yes, you're right, you can't take those every day
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@ZLisbon
Zara Lisbon
@ZLisbon · 3:14
They don't need babies. Adult dogs interacting with adult cats or birds or lizards. I don't care. It's all really cute. So I use those videos to calm myself down. I use my favorite TV shows. Have your favorite TV shows that you watch. Don't feel ashamed to turn to television. Okay. Now my dog's barking because he hears the construction going on outside. He doesn't like that. Maybe he needs an out of van
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@allowthesun
Chelsea Hanawalt
@allowthesun · 3:51
I think I was using alcohol to calm my anxiety, but actually learning that the alcohol is probably how my anxiety was getting triggered more often. So I spent the last year being sober curious, and I'm continuing my journey with that. But I realized that without using alcohol, I was still having a lot more anxiety, but it was manageable for me. I use movement and breath. I really have to get it out of my body
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@Tancy_0818
Tanishka Singh
@Tancy_0818 · 2:42

@averagebear

So I really believe with you, like you don't understand what's happening to you. You don't understand what you need to do actually to figure it out to solve the problem. So I just would like to say that you aren't the only one. There are many other people whom you can ask for help. I am sure I will try to find people for myself as well
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@averagebear
Average Bear
@averagebear · 1:31

@zaireukuu

And I think a lot of times for me, for whatever reason, if something is going on in my mind, right, I internalize it. Like you said, I was keeping it in because I didn't want to feel like I was bothering anybody. I didn't want to feel like I would start talking to somebody and they would be like, oh, here she go complaining again or something like that
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@averagebear
Average Bear
@averagebear · 3:02

@ZLisbon

My psychiatrist said he's thinking that maybe a lot of my anxiety or depression, it was like situational maybe because my mom happened and then my marriage thing happened and the job stress happened and I'm not sure really where it all started for me right now, I have a lot of anxiety around driving where I used to get in my car and just drive any and everywhere. Now when I'm driving, it's like, oh, my chest hurts, I'm going to pass out and crash
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