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Sounds dumb, but I used to use meth on and off for a couple of years and it gave me horrible panic attacks. I have been clean for a year, no use at all. Now it seems that I am sensitive to caffeine – in a normal cup of coffee, or an energy drink. I experience mild uncomfortable panic attack symptoms – because I used Meth will coffee give me heart attack?

Go to the behavioral health center. They can find a drug to help reduce panic attacks. I have these too, mine now are better. I hardly ever have them anymore. The drugs I have taken for them are hardly ever used anymore. I feel panic attacks have more to do with stress than anything.
I drink coffee twice daily. (not decafe) I think coffee is good for you, but everybody’s system is different.

I’m 16 yeard old. I’ve struggled with anxiety for years, but over the past few weeks I’ve been showing symptoms of panic disorder.

It all started when I smoked a great amount of marijuana in mid-August. I would like you to know that it was a HORROR experience and I never plan to try it again. It was only my 3rd time and I had far too much. I had a full-blown panic attack, mainly because I was in a state where I couldn’t control my thoughts. I kept seeing myself jumping from the 2nd story of the apartment I was in, and breaking my neck. Or saying something totally uncalled for and inappropriate. And I knew it was a possibility because I kept thinking "You don’t know reality from dream right now. Whatever you’re thinking may or may not be real". So any horrible thought that ran through my head could have been real and I wouldn’t have even known it. I was pacing around and my palms were sweating. I kept begging for someone to take me to the mental hospital where I’d be safe. All I wanted was to go to sleep, and I eventually did, but it was difficult. When I woke up I felt better, but the unreality was still vaguely there.

And it has lingered ever since.

I’ve been noticing my palms sweating quite often. I’ve imagined saying or doing something inappropriate, just like before, except I have full control now. But lately I’ve been having dizzy spells and the unreality hits me often. I also get hot flashes. I’m too aware of my surroundings, and I wonder if everything is real. I get numbness all over and I feel disassociated from my body. I have this feeling like I have to hold on or I’ll just fly up into space.

The main places I feel this in are the car (especially in the dark, like on the interstate, with the windows down), the bus when it’s crowded, and one of my classes where I’m in the back corner and the desks are too close together. It hits me the worst on the bus, since it’s crowded and the people are loud. As a result, I have avoided riding the bus for the past two days. Whenever I’m in an open space, like my house, I can deal with it much better.

Whenever I read up on panic disorder, the symptoms are described as "terrifying". I would say that mine are, at most, disturbing. Therefore, I believe I have a mild version of it.

The worst feelings come and go within a few seconds. I just start breathing deeply, telling myself to "chill out" and reassuring myself that everything is okay, and real. It helps to think of my friends.

I have a hard time talking to people about it, because it seems like when I do, everything becomes unreal again, and I get nervous. I vaguely fear losing control.

I see a psychologist every 2 weeks, but since I can’t talk to him about it, I will probably just type him a paper to read. Also, my mom cannot seem to find a psychiatrist. My dad is studying psychology and he knows a great deal about it. He said that it may be a symptom of my major depression.

Can anyone provide me a possible diagnosis, and let me know what I can do to make these disturbing feelings go away? I would like support. It’s the best anyone can do for me.

Thanks!

Why can’t you talk to your psychologist about it? It sounds to me like this is exactly the sort of thing you should talk to him about. He can help you either by helping you overcome your anxiety/panic symptoms (which generally respond very well to psychological treatment), or identify someone like a psychiatrist on your behalf.

As a psychologist, I’ll tell you to be wary of anyone who tries to diagnose you online based on one short description of the problem. It does sound like you are experiencing anxiety, that this may be related to the traumatic experience you had in August, and that possibly this may be leading to feelings of ‘derealisation’.

Beyond that, it would be up to a professional to meet you and help you think through what’s been going on. You mention that you already have a diagnosis of ‘major depression’; anxiety can be a part of depressive illness. You wonder about ‘panic disorder’, which this does sound similar to; but then, the label isn’t really that important, and there are lots of similar conditions (post-traumatic stress syndrome, social anxiety, free-floating anxiety, etc.) which might also tick some of the boxes.

My strong advice would be to talk to your psychologist about all of this, and leave nothing out. If you’re finding that very hard to do, try printing out your question and taking it to him.

Speaking more generally, anxiety and panic can be treated through psychological interventions designed to address the reasons you’re feeling anxious in the first place; what these interventions are relies on those reasons, but often it can include talking about your anxiety; gentle exposure to whatever is triggering your anxiety; cognitive (‘mental’) exercises designed to deal with anxiety when it happens; and so on.

Sometimes, particularly if the problem is severe and may disrupt your life or cause danger to yourself or others, medication may be considered as an option. This might be something specifically to address the anxiety – beta blockers are sometimes used to deal with specific situations, or tranquillisers can calm you down but may leave you feeling ‘fuzzy’ – or something to treat any underlying condition, such as depression, that your doctor thinks might be causing or exacerbating the anxiety.

You may also find that the anxiety fades ‘on its own’ as memories of your traumatic experience fade, and your mind puts the issue away under the file labelled ‘sorted’. But I strongly urge you to talk to your psychologist, or failing that your family doctor, in a frank and honest way about your worries, and take any online diagnoses with a pinch of salt.

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Ok, so I’m a first year university student and everything was going great on frosh week up until yesterday. I have social anxiety problems but I’ve been making a real effort to overcome this, and it’s been working OK. However yesterday I was about to enter a social situation and I had to bail. My heart started pounding, my breathing became heavy and shallow and I had a sense of overwhelming, I don’t know it’s hard to describe, like fear, sadness, axiety, bad things. It happened again today twice, once where I avoided going to a social situation because it started and again, extremely embarrassingly, in front of people and I left very quickly. The problem is I think I’m just being a drama whore because after looking up panic attacks, my symptoms are not nearly as severe as listed. I don’t feel like I’m going to die, my chest feels tight but it doesn’t really hurt, and my heart rate only goes up to about 100, which is higher than normal but not really abnormal. I have had a full blown panic attack that felt like a heart attack before, but that was when I was high so it’s never happened to me in a normal state of mind. So am I having some sort of mild panic attack, or is it all in my head?

It does sound like a panic attack, perhaps a mild one, though it doesn’t really seem mild to me. I would get it checked out, as they can be really debilitating. My friends father used to get really severe panic attacks all the time and he actually had to quit work.
If it happens again, I’d go seek some medical advice.
Take care.

Over the summer I would wake up with bruises on my arm that would appear overnight when i knew i had done no physical activity to make them. I went through very mild depression,but still depression.
Then one day ,it was picture day at my school so i was happy and with absolutely no worries,then all of a sudden in the last class , i was standing up leanning against the desk ,and i felt that was my legs weaken immediately , my jaw and my entire body started trembling , i couldn’t breath well so i was hyperventilating ,my head was extremely light headed and it moved roughly and introntrollably from side to side ,and i felt in extreme discomfort in the upper half of my body ,though i was conscious the whole time.They checked my pulse and it was okay . At that time time i was taking an anti depresant ,a pill for epilepsy and another pill for anxiety , im 14 years old. When i got to the emergency room they told me it was the medication, but i had the opinions of 2 neurologists and they agreed that it couldn’t of been the medication at all because they will never "meet"in my system. After that , they ran some tests and discovered i wasnt epileptic after alll, but my lordosis (the bone that connects the the head with your body ) was absolutely straight .when its supposed to be in a "c" shape. Ive had more than 1 panic attacks after that ,but with the usual panic attacks symptoms.
My questions are the following

what could it have been ? why?
why the incotrolable head movements?
why the bruises if i have no epilepsy ?

I thank you very much whoever answers.
ps: if you are going to put a stupid and non logical answer id be less offfended if you just wrote 2 points

That sounds like a really bad panic attack to me. I have them from PTSD and some of them can be that bad. As far as waking up with bruises, you could just move or jerk your arms in your sleep. You could also sleepwalk. I have a friend who sleepwalks and he always ends back up in his bed and never knows when he’s done it unless he has buises.

As for those medications, they CAN meet in your system. They ALL act on the brain. ALL medications will effect other medications, just not all will do so noticeably. That’s a basic fact they teach in pharmacy school. I would recommend seeing a psychologist and seeing if you can work on the panic attacks.The head movements could just be a tic. Psychotherapy can help with that as well.

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This short documentary about Asperger’s Syndrome shown on TV in 2005 is about me, I have mild Asperger’s Syndrome. I was diagnosed in 2002.

I knew I was different from the age of about 6 years old, hypotheses included – the reincarnation of King David or Pliny the Elder, a left behind Space Alien and finally mild autism (after seeing a TV documentary). Other pupils were loud and ran around randomly, while I preferred a mature intellectual life. I became interested in astronomy/science ~3 years old, so I’m told, it was my interests that made me stand out in school.

Later on in primary school, I became fascinated by mineralogy too. I found it difficult not to talk about my hobbies, one time I stopped taking for a week or two after the summer holidays, because I knew if I talked … the bullies would again realise I was different and the bullying would start again. I was bullied badly, sometimes beaten up, for years. Bullying mostly stopped in secondary school as I found a group to hang around with.

In 1987, at 14, I went to an astronomy lecture, but due to the excitement of it all I had a panic attack and I had to leave (a panic attack over astronomy?). This began over a decade of anxiety & panic attacks and increased reclusiveness, which I completely overcame in 1998. Perhaps due to my bad experience with Astronomy, I turned to Mineral collecting.

One of isolating aspects of Asperger’s is, we tend to talk at people not with people. However, in 1998, I did a 6 week geological mapping project with a friend, and I every hour or so we would sit and chat. After 4 weeks our conversations became two way. While I noticed this improvement, it also led to my growing sense oddness. This processes I am told, is called gaining insight, some young adults with Asperger’s try to transition from the basic social skills of childhood to the more sophisticated social skills of adult life, but fail.

My diagnosis in 2002 was a great relief, I felt better about myself and understood myself more, I didn’t feel the need to be normal so badly (that ever that is). I set up a social group in 2002, made many good friends and found a girlfriend though the group. I find people with Asperger’s (I have met aver 100) are all extremely kind and interesting people. My social skills have improved allot. I graduated with a PhD in geology in 2008.

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