My Personal Struggle With Panic Attacks
No matter what you have been told, there is a perfect cure for you condition. If I have done it – you too can!
The Onset of My Panic Attacks
I was living in Manhattan in 1999 and had a lucrative business that I owned and operated. I worked long hours and had little time for relaxation. In July of that year I had, what I later discovered to be, symptoms of vertigo. Not knowing what was happening, I let it pass. But it happened again, more intensely, on the streets of Manhattan and I realized that I needed to see my doctor. My doctor referred to me to various specialists. I had the great ‘honor’ of visiting an Ear specialist, an Allergist, a neurologist and even a psychiatrist. No one could tell me what was wrong with me. “Stress” was the best they could come up with. Stress or not, the vertigo attacks were persistent.
In September 1999, I decided to take a vacation to New Orleans with some friends to see if a much-needed rest may dissolve my symptoms. We were heading to the French Market on the second day when I began to feel the onset of my vertigo symptoms. I soldiered on not wanting to disappoint my friends by spoiling the day. That´s when the panic attack hit me with such intensity that I had no choice but to start running back to the hotel. I spent the next five days of my vacation �bunkered� in my hotel room.
I approached my doctor again upon my return to disappointing results. As my condition worsened and me being ill-equipped to dealing with panic attacks, I sold my business in December 2000.
Terrified of another attack, I spent the next few years living like a recluse, leaving my house only when it was absolutely necessary, like when visiting different specialists who insisted they had the solution — none did! Because the first attack took place outdoors, avoiding the outdoors made me feel safe. The attack, described above, was in fact the only time I had suffered such a severe attack, though at times I came close. It was the fear of having another attack, though, that actually crippled me for years. Later I have discovered that all sufferers, after their first Panic Attack, succumb to fearing the next attack to such an extent that the fear of having an attack is actually the very cause for bringing on the next attack. I have written and published several articles on this very topic, one of which you can find here: Do We Create Our Own Panic Attacks?
Deep inside I knew there must be something out there and I was determined to find it and cure my fear of panic attacks once and for all.
It has been long since, but I am still puzzeled by the doctors who have treated me. How is it possible that none of them knew of therapies that are effective, but ones that they did not happen to practice? Were they protecting their turf? Did they not want to lose the income that comes with another patient. I shudder to think of the possible answers, yet, for fairness sake, they do sneak in from time to time.
After years of unecssary pain, I finally discovered on my own two appoaches that would change my life.
Not only did the combination of EasyCalm and PanicAway provided the cure, but as a result I made it my life mission to do all I can not to let others walk the same path I had.