missacorah
31-12-08, 20:40
Hi everyone!
I'm ashamed to say I havent posted here in over a year or more. I guess I was hoping I had completely recovered or something daft like that.
I started having panic attacks about 4 years ago after a 'genuine' illness left me pretty much housebound. I had to leave my job at a primary school despite making several attempts to go back but being unable to.
My main problems were panic attacks,agorophobia and the worse one - feeling faint when out and about.I became completely housebound after a while.
Over the past couple of years I have started small but worked my way up to where I can do my own weekly food shop again, go to parents evenings, cinemas, take my kids to appointments etc and have been rfeeling really grateful that this horrible spell has come to an end.
Then last week I was waiting in a queue in a clothes shop when I got that horrid familiar dizzy feeling and the shaky legs and felt like I was about to pass out. It caught me unaware as I hadnt expereinced it for so long so I left the shop and stood outside thinking maybe I was coming down with something and was feeling genuinely faint. Of course, I wasnt as as soon as I was outside I felt fine.
The next day I backed out of a trip to the local panto incase it happened again which made me furious with myself.
This week when I did my weekly food shopping my legs were quivering the whole way round and today I woke up feeling ill at the thought of where I had promised to take the kids today - it was the loal cinema for goodness sakes!
I am so worried that after all the hard work I have done this has all come back to me. I am so worried that this is the case.
I had a death of a much lovely family pet at the start of December and a 2 week viral illness in mid December. I am also being pressured to start a job in January that I dont know if I will be able to cope with. Do you think these would be contributing factors at all?
I would be really grateful for any views and thankyou for reading :)
I'm ashamed to say I havent posted here in over a year or more. I guess I was hoping I had completely recovered or something daft like that.
I started having panic attacks about 4 years ago after a 'genuine' illness left me pretty much housebound. I had to leave my job at a primary school despite making several attempts to go back but being unable to.
My main problems were panic attacks,agorophobia and the worse one - feeling faint when out and about.I became completely housebound after a while.
Over the past couple of years I have started small but worked my way up to where I can do my own weekly food shop again, go to parents evenings, cinemas, take my kids to appointments etc and have been rfeeling really grateful that this horrible spell has come to an end.
Then last week I was waiting in a queue in a clothes shop when I got that horrid familiar dizzy feeling and the shaky legs and felt like I was about to pass out. It caught me unaware as I hadnt expereinced it for so long so I left the shop and stood outside thinking maybe I was coming down with something and was feeling genuinely faint. Of course, I wasnt as as soon as I was outside I felt fine.
The next day I backed out of a trip to the local panto incase it happened again which made me furious with myself.
This week when I did my weekly food shopping my legs were quivering the whole way round and today I woke up feeling ill at the thought of where I had promised to take the kids today - it was the loal cinema for goodness sakes!
I am so worried that after all the hard work I have done this has all come back to me. I am so worried that this is the case.
I had a death of a much lovely family pet at the start of December and a 2 week viral illness in mid December. I am also being pressured to start a job in January that I dont know if I will be able to cope with. Do you think these would be contributing factors at all?
I would be really grateful for any views and thankyou for reading :)