Re: Panic attack, pre-eating...while eating...and a bit after eating
Hi Matt
When your nerves are sensitised and you are having a panic attack your brain starts looking for a threat to pin the feeling on. Remember that at this time your fight or flight response has kicked in and your brain is making a decision as to wether to run or not. This is not about the food. I had an attack when I was using my hairdye and saw that as a threat and spent months trying to get over it. This is why people develop what appear to be irrational phobias. I can relate to the food as the same thing happened to me and I thought if I avoid eating then I will avoid an attack. This was before I fully understood this illness.You are being 'bluffed by a feeling' as the great Dr Claire Weekes would say.
Her book SELF HELP FOR YOUR NERVES ISBN 0-7225-3155-9 is available from the NMP shop. Dr Weekes was a physician and scientist. She was a fellow sufferer (nominated for the nobel prize for medicine) and really understood this illness. She took the mystery out of it, and devised a simple programme for recovery. I can't recommend this enough. I think you would feel reassured by this book.This will get better.
Here is a link to her site;
http://www.drclaireweekes.co.uk/
Veronicax
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