I had my first panic attack episodes after experiencing anaphylaxis for the first time  from eating a mango on the fourth of July (wherein I also accidentally took too much benedryl  and the entire day was like a really bad paranoid trip). The week after I would get these fake anaphylaxis symptoms before I would eat fruit - my throat would tighten and go dry (I could not swallow unless I was drinking or eating), I had the "sense of doom", and I could just feel myself turn white and I would get a cold sweat. When this happened, I would just take a sip of water, breathe deeply a couple of times, and get back to work. On the weekend, I sat down and choked down all the food that had given me an episode - I could eat strawberries again! It took about an hour and a half to eat all the fruit and nuts I normally eat. So that stopped for a while. However, everytime I would think about a mango, I would get the fake allergic reaction symptoms. I practice martial arts, and on this past monday we were working on grappling, specifically arm bars which involves pressing down all of your weight on your partners chest, using that to lift your leg over. My partner was having a hard time making it fluid, so we worked on it for a while. The day after, I started having chest pain, and had my first episode not…

I recently just started having panic attacks, and these are multiple per day. All through college I had high stress and anxiety, but had never had a full blown panic attack. Now I'm working in an actual job where I'm trying to move up to a different role & there's a lot of things going on at once. Used to the job has stress but I could find ways of coping, but recently I haven't been able to find coping things that prevent the attacked. I know find myself panicking about everything and it's even waking me up at night and impacting my work. I don't know what to do or if I should see someone. Any suggestions or foods for thought?

I recently just started having panic attacks, and these are multiple per day. All through college I had high stress and anxiety, but had never had a full blown panic attacked. Now I'm working in an actual job where I'm trying to move up to a different role & there's a lot of things going on at once. Used to the job has stress but I could find ways of coping, but recently I haven't been able to find coping things that prevent the attacked. I know find myself panicking about everything and it's even waking me up at night and impacting my work. I don't know what to do or if I should see someone. Any suggestions or foods for thought?

Nine years later , I finally can see the light. I feel like over time I have been in a tunnel so dark. I simply moved to work because I had to. I moved to care for my children because I had to. I had no idea of how lost I was. I turned to no one and recived no meditical attention. But yet the time was so dark and forgotten. Can one suffer in silence and not realize it? I kept busy to avoid thoughts. I know this now. Today my life seems so much meaningful. I still get feelings of saddness, jealously, anxiety. But the difference is I'm able to look past that. The future is bright. For the first time I have meaning. I'm not just simply moving. I'm moving with purpose with hope. There is a end. At the end is also the beginning.