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Severe Stress a Trigger
Q. I
just started having panic attacks about 6-8 month's ago and I am
35-years old. I have never experienced the panic attacks before and
I did not know what was wrong with me until I went to the doctor's.
I knew that I was under severe stress at work, but I did not know it
could cause panic attacks. Do you know of anyone like me that has
developed panic attacks from job-related stress? I would like to
email them.
PS: Maybe you have some information that
you could send me on Panic Attacks and stress related issue's. I
would like to learn as much about the panic attacks as I can. I do
not ever want to place myself in that situation again. : + )
A. People react to stress in different ways. Some people
may develop high blood pressure, some an ulcer, migraines, etc and
there are those of us who have panic attacks!
There is usually a hereditary predisposition to the attacks and
either a build up of stress and/or a major life stress, including
job stress, can trigger the predisposition. Also illegal drugs like
'grass', LSD and cocaine can trigger the predisposition. Once
triggered, we do need to learn how to lose our fear of the attacks.
The majority of people we are in contact with have developed
Panic Attacks through stress. We are unable to give out email
addresses but you can talk to others through the Chat
lines.
We don't have any 'generic' information on stress/panic attacks.
It is usually more complicated in so far as it is not so much the
stress of the external situation, but the way we think about it and
the way we deal with the stress. This opens up quite a number of
issues dealing with who we think we should be vs who we could be.
This is a huge area. We are currently finalizing a correspondence
course which does detail stress and self issues in great detail plus
of course how to manage the attacks, fear and anxiety.
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