I am new to the group and hope you don't mind me posting this. I am due to go with my daughter on her school trip today - I can't sleep with anxiety and fear that I will have a panic attack and feel frightened on the bus. At the moment am shaking writting this, I feel cmopletely overwhelmed.
I am hoping that just getting this off my chest will help me stop worrying and let me go to sleep.
I said I would go on this trip because I love me daughter and she really wanted me to go, her eyes have lit up as she has told everyone that I am coming. I have done loads of work to try to work on anxiety management, but tonight I have let it all get on top of me to the point of not being able to sleep and feel really bad. I thought if I had a good nights sleep I would wake up refreshed and feel up to dealing with it, now I just want to phone school and say I'm ill - but that is letting myself and my daughter down.
I know that I am frightened of having a panic attack and although I associate these feelings with buses I think it is the fear I fear. The not being able to get off if I want to, I'm scared I will get on the bus and suddenly get overwhelmed by the panic and want to run off, then if I make it on I have to face the whole thing going home.
I really really want to face this - it's not just buses, it's anything where I don't feel in control so even sat in a meeting will have me starting to feel panicky like I want to run out. So my sensible part knows it isn't the bus as such, it just represents a situation that I'm not in control of.
Thankyou to anyone who made it so far. I'll try to get some more sleep and I think after tomorrow is over make an appt with my GP, I really need to sort this out, it has taken over my whole life.
Best Wishes
From reading some of the other posts I know I am not alone and that is some comfort.