Tary
New member
Hi there,
My name is Tary and I´m from Brazil. It´s my first time posting here, I´ve been reading about anxiety, panic attacks and agoraphobia all day, this is by far the most useful site I´ve found.
Anyway, I started looking into this because I´ve had a few strange episodes and I don´t seem to quite fit into the catagory here, but there´s a lot of similarities. I´ve had what I´m going to describe about 5 times, ten months ago and twice yesterday. They all happened either in a bus or a plane ( detail: I´m a flight attendant).
It felt as if my clothes were getting tighter, the scarf was squeezing my neck, I couldn´t breathe, I kept thinking I couldn´t make a scene, that there was no way to get out of where I was, but I needed to get out ASAP. In one situation I felt a little pain in my ribs and started wondering why I was feeling it, this caused me to worry that it was going to increase and take over and that something terrible was going to happen, I was going to die or start screaming and crying hysterically or something. I ripped off my scarf and unbuttoned my shirt, tried to breathe and think normally. See, this is why I don´t think it´s really a panic attack, in all those situations it didn´t last long and though I was scared as hell it wasn´t the terrifying, crushing, traumatizing fear described here. I think the longest episode was about ten minutes. Anyway, I want to know if anyone has experienced this, if there´s some explanation. Thanks!
My name is Tary and I´m from Brazil. It´s my first time posting here, I´ve been reading about anxiety, panic attacks and agoraphobia all day, this is by far the most useful site I´ve found.
Anyway, I started looking into this because I´ve had a few strange episodes and I don´t seem to quite fit into the catagory here, but there´s a lot of similarities. I´ve had what I´m going to describe about 5 times, ten months ago and twice yesterday. They all happened either in a bus or a plane ( detail: I´m a flight attendant).
It felt as if my clothes were getting tighter, the scarf was squeezing my neck, I couldn´t breathe, I kept thinking I couldn´t make a scene, that there was no way to get out of where I was, but I needed to get out ASAP. In one situation I felt a little pain in my ribs and started wondering why I was feeling it, this caused me to worry that it was going to increase and take over and that something terrible was going to happen, I was going to die or start screaming and crying hysterically or something. I ripped off my scarf and unbuttoned my shirt, tried to breathe and think normally. See, this is why I don´t think it´s really a panic attack, in all those situations it didn´t last long and though I was scared as hell it wasn´t the terrifying, crushing, traumatizing fear described here. I think the longest episode was about ten minutes. Anyway, I want to know if anyone has experienced this, if there´s some explanation. Thanks!