Benja54
16-11-06, 04:24
Hello everyone I am new to this site and have just registered to be able to make this post.
I'm an 18 year old male from Australia and I 'believe' I have been suffering from panic attacks for a couple of years. I say 'believe' because i am still unsure of what I suffer from but I'm pretty convinced that panic/anxiety is the cause of my symptoms.
I completed VCE (year 12) last year and this was a great deal of stress to me. The years previous I put a great deal of stress on myself also. My whole high school career has been plagued by my inability to complete homework, in short, I am totally unmotivated to study outside of the classroom. Teachers/Lecturers would also argue that I am highly unmotivated inside the classroom.
Anyway i noticed that in year 11, slightly over 2 years ago that in class i would become nervous and I would get sweaty palms. It wasn't so bad when I only had nervousness and sweat problems, so I ignored it. Then came the toilet issues! It was generally on a monday morning in biology when i had these problems. I would be sitting in class, listening to a lecture and then I would notice that I would have to use the bathroom. Not wanting to disrupt the class i would sit idly by and try to deal with the stomach pain and cramps. In the meantime my palms would be sweating profusely and I was moving about in my seat - it was easily visible that i was becoming restless. I would finally give in and ask the teacher if i could be excused, whether he said yes or no, I got up out of my seat and left the classroom. This isn't a charming point of the story but I always noticed that i'd have diarrhea. Anyways after visiting the toilet i generally became relaxed and returned to normal functioning.
This happened for the whole of year 11 and 12, I made note to most of my teachers that I was prone to running out of class because of my 'abnormal stomach.' I was put on drugs to help combat my irritable stomach but these never worked, I kept having to run out of class because of the constant need to use the toilet. I became aware that my stomach problems were stress related, moreso related to sitting in a class for an extended period of time. I noticed that I was running out of most of my classes, my monday morning toilet problem had now extended into my midday and afternoon classes, it was slowly interrupting all of my classes.
So I basically put up with this problem for the whole of year 11. In year 12 the toilet issue subsided somewhat, although it happened now and then in various classes.
However, that year there was various occasions where i had to sit down for a long period of time in a crowded room. These occsaions were such things as school assemblies and the like. In these scenarios it seemed my problems were exacerbated. It seemed as though the large crowd and being required to sit for long amounts of time were making my nervousness worse. I would become irritable in no time and i would have to get up and leave, if i could bear the embarrassment of standing up to leave - in front of the whole year 12 crowd. If i couldn't bear getting up, then i would remain in my chair, being an uncomfortable wreck because of stomach pain.
The stomach/bowel pain was one thing.
One day my parents decided to take me to the city to do some clothes shopping, that was fine, i thought. So we parked the car and i noticed i wasn't feeling the best but it was ok, it was only a small 'headache' so i didn't speak up. We walked into the nike store and went up to the 1st level and this is where it happened. While the parents were looking around i began to feel extremely faint and i felt as though i was going to pass out. The sweaty palms returned and i felt generally cold and clammy. I grabbed onto my mum as i felt faint and mum suggested i sit down. So i did, rather i lied down on the nearest chair. "What the hell was that?" i thought to myself. I still felt as though i needed to pass out but sitting down kind of took my mind off it. I stood back up and felt extremely dizzy, once again. I decided i had to go to the toilet,
I'm an 18 year old male from Australia and I 'believe' I have been suffering from panic attacks for a couple of years. I say 'believe' because i am still unsure of what I suffer from but I'm pretty convinced that panic/anxiety is the cause of my symptoms.
I completed VCE (year 12) last year and this was a great deal of stress to me. The years previous I put a great deal of stress on myself also. My whole high school career has been plagued by my inability to complete homework, in short, I am totally unmotivated to study outside of the classroom. Teachers/Lecturers would also argue that I am highly unmotivated inside the classroom.
Anyway i noticed that in year 11, slightly over 2 years ago that in class i would become nervous and I would get sweaty palms. It wasn't so bad when I only had nervousness and sweat problems, so I ignored it. Then came the toilet issues! It was generally on a monday morning in biology when i had these problems. I would be sitting in class, listening to a lecture and then I would notice that I would have to use the bathroom. Not wanting to disrupt the class i would sit idly by and try to deal with the stomach pain and cramps. In the meantime my palms would be sweating profusely and I was moving about in my seat - it was easily visible that i was becoming restless. I would finally give in and ask the teacher if i could be excused, whether he said yes or no, I got up out of my seat and left the classroom. This isn't a charming point of the story but I always noticed that i'd have diarrhea. Anyways after visiting the toilet i generally became relaxed and returned to normal functioning.
This happened for the whole of year 11 and 12, I made note to most of my teachers that I was prone to running out of class because of my 'abnormal stomach.' I was put on drugs to help combat my irritable stomach but these never worked, I kept having to run out of class because of the constant need to use the toilet. I became aware that my stomach problems were stress related, moreso related to sitting in a class for an extended period of time. I noticed that I was running out of most of my classes, my monday morning toilet problem had now extended into my midday and afternoon classes, it was slowly interrupting all of my classes.
So I basically put up with this problem for the whole of year 11. In year 12 the toilet issue subsided somewhat, although it happened now and then in various classes.
However, that year there was various occasions where i had to sit down for a long period of time in a crowded room. These occsaions were such things as school assemblies and the like. In these scenarios it seemed my problems were exacerbated. It seemed as though the large crowd and being required to sit for long amounts of time were making my nervousness worse. I would become irritable in no time and i would have to get up and leave, if i could bear the embarrassment of standing up to leave - in front of the whole year 12 crowd. If i couldn't bear getting up, then i would remain in my chair, being an uncomfortable wreck because of stomach pain.
The stomach/bowel pain was one thing.
One day my parents decided to take me to the city to do some clothes shopping, that was fine, i thought. So we parked the car and i noticed i wasn't feeling the best but it was ok, it was only a small 'headache' so i didn't speak up. We walked into the nike store and went up to the 1st level and this is where it happened. While the parents were looking around i began to feel extremely faint and i felt as though i was going to pass out. The sweaty palms returned and i felt generally cold and clammy. I grabbed onto my mum as i felt faint and mum suggested i sit down. So i did, rather i lied down on the nearest chair. "What the hell was that?" i thought to myself. I still felt as though i needed to pass out but sitting down kind of took my mind off it. I stood back up and felt extremely dizzy, once again. I decided i had to go to the toilet,