My first face-off with a panic attack came at the age of twenty-nine. From what I have learned from reading and by chatting to other panic attack sufferers, this was later than usual. Most panic sufferers that I have spoken with or read about had their first panic attack either in their teenagers or early twenties. Mine took place while I was driving to see my folks one Friday evening in June 1985.

Thinking back, except for the usual panic attack symptoms, I believe the most terrifying part was that I did not have a clue as to what was going down to me. I had never, up to that point, experienced anything so intense and scary. This wasn’t to be in my case, after that first situation, I started having panic attacks terribly often while travelling and this led me to developing a fear toward travelling by any type of transport.

Probably, the worst thing about my panic encounters was the incontrovertible fact that they’d strike me, apparently, out of the blue and for no clear reason.

I may be feeling fine one moment and the subsequent I’d be facing yet one more appointment with apprehension. I searched for several years for a panic attack treatment that would eliminate these attacks, and my subsequent stress disorder, from my life but with no result.

Everything I attempted, and listen to me I attempted so many things that I am able to barely remember the majority of them either did nothing or made my state even worse. At the point I did not realize it, but thinking back now, this was when the healing commenced.

I no longer became stressed by causing myself to go out and I stopped fooling myself that one morning I’d wake up and all my difficulties would have faded away in the night. Call it coincidence, but just at the point at which I was prepared to truly begin to get better, I found the tool that enabled me to assert bye bye to my panic attacks forever. In addition, for the 1st time in oh so several years, I started to feel my stress beginning to slip away.

Their effects on me changed the lives of my loved ones too. It can be conquered.