Polite panic attacks are all the rage in Fitzrovia

[nyecamden]

There are many ways in which I cope well with life. On reading this journal, people may get the impression that I'm flapping half of the time: this is not the case. However, today was not a good day; or at least the late morning wasn't.

Comments

[adam_snake]

Sorry you went thu that i would have thought though being nurses they would understand its not your fault!! i am not a nurse but i no when someones haveing a panic attack they say things and shout when they later dident mean to im not sure if your covered by the Discrimination Act but i would have thought so.

I cant get my T eather and they dont no what to do :( its scary isent it :(

[nyecamden]

The trouble is, medical professionals have rights too. Have you seen those posters about them not having to deal with aggressive people? I don't know what the best thing to do is :/

It is scary, yeah. Have you got your nurse or doctor to phone Charing Cross? My nurse phoned Dr Davies, who is now going to speak to the endocrynologist and hopefully I can go on Nebido for a bit.

[barakta]

As I understand it there's a grey area of how people with a meantal health disability behave because of the disability vs medical people's safety/security

[nyecamden]

This was a very helpful comment, thanks. I'll come back to it when I've calmed down a bit.

I guess if what is "considered the right way" is not "the right way for you" then there is some difficulty.

Yes, this is precisely it. Most of the things people (trained or otherwise) seem to do to calm me down seem to set me off even further.

I shall come up with a Nye panic attack 101 :-D

[becksydee]

hmm, methinks the nurse slightly misunderstands the nature of panic attacks :o/

i would suggest, at some point when you have sufficient spoons, writing to the practice manager and saying something along the lines of - 'i have panic attacks and during them i sometimes do xyz & this is beyond my control whilst i'm panicking. i'm worried about how this might affect my future medical treatment if staff here don't know how to deal with this helpfully. abc would be helpful things to do whilst i'm having a panic attack."

i'm not sure where DDA stuff would fit in with this, but i think being upfront about your needs would be a constructive thing to do.

sorry you had to experience that though. i've had the same thing happen to me several times (all of them in medical contexts, incidentally) and it's crappy :o( *offers hugs*

[nyecamden]

Helpful comment, thanks. I'm going to take your and barakta's advice.

It's not good that you have had the same thing happen to you, but it's good to hear it if you know what I mean. I know I'm not alone in this, and it's good to have that reinforced.

[becksydee]

ok, glad i could be helpful :o)

and yes, i know what you mean. possibly the worst incident of this was a nurse continuing to try and stick pads to my bare chest to do an ECG whilst i was having a panic attack. ooh, and on a different occasion a nurse told me to 'just stop' panicking - the same nurse had earlier commanded me to 'just stop' throwing up. god knows where she got her nursing qualification from! in retrospect it's so bloody ridiculous it's almost funny.