Fear Part II: You Fucking Pussy

[naamah_darling]

The other day I talked about what it's like to have a panic attack, how they feel.

I'd like to thank everyone who commented, either to say that they have panic attacks, and that reading what I wrote helped them to understand they are not alone, or to those precious folks who wrote to say that they don't have them, and now they can understand it a

Comments

[cooperati]

thank you back.

-=T=-

[dorei]

Speaking as someone who is married to someone with anxiety disorder and has panic attacks on a sporadic basis, I appreciate you writing this. I don't always understand his POV, and this puts it in perspective. I think perhaps I'll print it out and try to memorize it.

[the_xtina]

Motherfuckin' word.

This is totally scalable to depression as well, and I may have to print this out for those days when my brain is that motherfucker saying "If you're not over it by now, it's because you chooose to not be over it".

[naamah_darling]

To be honest, reading a lot of what you have had to say helped crystallize this, because I relate to so much of it on so many levels -- not just the depression, but the bipolar thing, the anxiety thing, etc.

I'm having a "You are choosing to be a tosky floop!" day today. It's a pain.

I I I I I.

[the_xtina]

I appear to be having a sort of "If self-beheading weren't such a pain in the ass to accomplish..." day.  I may have to force myself to talk to B or R just to get through it.  Which is just about as abhorrent as it gets, but it's that or not make it through the day, you know?

As I think I said somewhere, "If it works*, then it's not stupid."

I'm glad my writing helps.  That's I think the foremost reason for posting at all when depressed - because others' words help me (getting the right words for things always helps me), so I want to return the favour, if possible.  So, cool.

And thank you a million times over for posts like these.  I tend to keep them all for rereading and safe-keeping, partly to help explain me to others, and partly to help explain others to me.  Thank you.

* An ye harm none, &c.

[mt_straycat]

Word. I spent much of my life dealing with family members and friends who would be sympathetic and understanding for a few minutes, and then when that didn't magically make it all better, get pissed at me and tell me I just needed to "suck it up," "get [my] head out of [my] ass," and "pull [my]self together."

Nothing like the added pressure of not measuring up to other people's standards, right?

I had the same problem dealing with fibromyalgia. It wasn't something obviously, measurably wrong, so therefore it was just me being a whiner. (Side note - when I mentioned this to my rheumatologist, she said deadpan, "So, not much nurturing going on in your family, then?" Love her. ^.^)

[sjo]

Telling someone to "get over" a panic attack is about as rational as telling someone to get over cancer. That is all.

[stormcaller3801]

Heh- you know, there's a book out that says cancer is due to negative thinking. And Oprah endorsed it, if I understand correctly.

[naamah_darling]

If I can think myself into cancer, can I think it onto other people? 'Cause I kind of like that idea.

[pixxelpuss]

There was a girl on HERE that said the same goddamn thing during the recent abortion debate. I just about swallowed my own tongue.