TLDR
The first time you experience a panic attack, it feels like you’re dying.
Your heart is racing for seemingly no reason at all. Everything you see and hear becomes a threat that will either kill you or drive you to madness.
You don’t know why, but you don’t have control over anything anymore and you don’t know if you can survive it.
The sound of a chair scraping against the restaurant floor becomes the growl of something much more sinister. The butter knives on the table look much sharper than they did before. Dangerous.
Anxiety and panic can drive the mind to dark places, exaggerating everything around you as if everything were made to hurt you. This is not the reality of the world, but a gross exaggeration of danger brought on by an uncontrollable influx of fear.
My first ever (and so far only) panic attack happened while I was at a 5-star restaurant. Worse, it happened on my honeymoon.via the TL;DR App
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Written by leonhart | I want my writing to speak lionhearted truths.
