pheonix21
01-05-10, 17:36
Hey,
Im 21 and in my final year of university, I started suffering from panic attacks in my first year of 6th form. I hadnt really had panic attack in months and then suddenly i cant stop having them. It started over easter when i was working on my dissertation - three weeks before the deadline and was doing the finishing touches. these should have taken me a day... in the end they took me the whole three weeks with panic attacks every other day. I know it is all stress related but it is really starting to affect me. In the monrings I am fine, eat breakfast have a cuppa and get on with my day (as im now revising for my final exams, i know its not going to stop completely), i also have lunch and im still fine but thats as far as my appetite now goes.
When i begin to have a panic attack i get an uncontrolable urge to go to the loo (number 2), and inevitably i end up with an upset stomach. Because of how regularly this has happened in the last few weeks, i now barely eat in the evenings and if i do its a couple of slices of toast.
Sometimes i do have a healthy appetite and its fine, but now i'm scared that I've transferred my panicking about work to eating food. And I really don't know what to do anymore.
Help :(
Im 21 and in my final year of university, I started suffering from panic attacks in my first year of 6th form. I hadnt really had panic attack in months and then suddenly i cant stop having them. It started over easter when i was working on my dissertation - three weeks before the deadline and was doing the finishing touches. these should have taken me a day... in the end they took me the whole three weeks with panic attacks every other day. I know it is all stress related but it is really starting to affect me. In the monrings I am fine, eat breakfast have a cuppa and get on with my day (as im now revising for my final exams, i know its not going to stop completely), i also have lunch and im still fine but thats as far as my appetite now goes.
When i begin to have a panic attack i get an uncontrolable urge to go to the loo (number 2), and inevitably i end up with an upset stomach. Because of how regularly this has happened in the last few weeks, i now barely eat in the evenings and if i do its a couple of slices of toast.
Sometimes i do have a healthy appetite and its fine, but now i'm scared that I've transferred my panicking about work to eating food. And I really don't know what to do anymore.
Help :(