Bill
28-02-08, 00:44
Some of you may remember that before Christmas I had a bad fall bruising my ribs etc when I was delivering some equipment.
It's been a long time coming but today I got a call asking me to go back to deliver again for the first time since my accident.
Immediately in the back of my mind I've had that irrational thought saying "what if" it happens again and then I start feeling anxious and panicky about it. And yet, my rational mind keeps saying I know why it happened and what I did wrong so it won't happen again. It was Just a bad day!
It reminded me of panic attacks how we can be experiencing bad times and without realising the pressures we're under, one day we're out and experience a bad panic attack. It frightens us so much that we find it too difficult to go back to where we experienced the attack because we fear it happening again.
Thinking "what if" it happens again creates our anxious feelings so that when we do go back to the same situation, our minds then re-create the panic attack........even though often the actual causes that created the first original attack are no longer present. It becomes fear of experiencing fear and that fear then causes our attack.
Often it's Not confronting the situation where we experienced the attack that needs treating but more often changing or treating whatever the pressures are in a sufferers life that caused the panic attack in the first place.
For instance, if someone is feeling under a huge amount of pressure in their workplace, they often feel trapped with no means of escape. This trapped feeling then creates anxiety causing panic attacks that can occur Anywhere.
If someone has experienced bad events in their past, these too can create anxieties causing panic attacks.
Finding a new job, getting help to help us move on, help us come to terms with our past or overcome our fears that are causing us to feel trapped are often more effective than confronting situations where the panic attack occur because even if we overcome a fear of one situation, while the underlying causes of our anxieties are still present, the panic attacks will simply re-surface in another situation where we feel trapped. In each situation we actually feel trapped, we act out the underlying feelings of being trapped in our "lives" that are being caused by our past or present. :winks:
It's been a long time coming but today I got a call asking me to go back to deliver again for the first time since my accident.
Immediately in the back of my mind I've had that irrational thought saying "what if" it happens again and then I start feeling anxious and panicky about it. And yet, my rational mind keeps saying I know why it happened and what I did wrong so it won't happen again. It was Just a bad day!
It reminded me of panic attacks how we can be experiencing bad times and without realising the pressures we're under, one day we're out and experience a bad panic attack. It frightens us so much that we find it too difficult to go back to where we experienced the attack because we fear it happening again.
Thinking "what if" it happens again creates our anxious feelings so that when we do go back to the same situation, our minds then re-create the panic attack........even though often the actual causes that created the first original attack are no longer present. It becomes fear of experiencing fear and that fear then causes our attack.
Often it's Not confronting the situation where we experienced the attack that needs treating but more often changing or treating whatever the pressures are in a sufferers life that caused the panic attack in the first place.
For instance, if someone is feeling under a huge amount of pressure in their workplace, they often feel trapped with no means of escape. This trapped feeling then creates anxiety causing panic attacks that can occur Anywhere.
If someone has experienced bad events in their past, these too can create anxieties causing panic attacks.
Finding a new job, getting help to help us move on, help us come to terms with our past or overcome our fears that are causing us to feel trapped are often more effective than confronting situations where the panic attack occur because even if we overcome a fear of one situation, while the underlying causes of our anxieties are still present, the panic attacks will simply re-surface in another situation where we feel trapped. In each situation we actually feel trapped, we act out the underlying feelings of being trapped in our "lives" that are being caused by our past or present. :winks: