Overcoming Panic Attacks – My Story

I’m hoping to share my experience with people who might be in the same situation I was in up until a few months ago.

I’ve called my blog “Overcoming Panic Attacks” because that sums it up best – it’s my personal story of how I finally overcame panic attacks.

I’m also doing this blog so I can give something back. Because I’m so grateful for the help I received in overcoming my anxiety attacks I want to be able to share what I’ve learned (Click here to see how I learned to overcome panic attacks).

You see, I struggled for years before finally finding a cure. I’d always been a bit of a worrier, but about ten years ago some things happened in my personal life that really knocked my confidence.

I started to find that instead of just worrying about things now and then I could never really relax. I got to the point where I was always feeling anxious.

This gradually took its toll on me. I didn’t sleep well (because every time I went to bed I would just lay there worrying about things) and so I always felt tired and my energy was low. With this, plus always having that feeling in my stomach that something wasn’t right, my concentration suffered. As a result so did my work and my relationships.

Then about five years ago, during a particularly stressful period in my life, things got so bad that I actually had my first full blown panic attack. I felt terrified and so helpless.

Nothing my doctor suggested seemed to make any real difference and I got used to expecting an attack every few days or so. For a long time I resigned myself to thinking it was just an unwelcome part of my life that I couldn’t change.

The trouble was that over the years I found myself avoiding more and more the sort of situations that I feared would trigger an attack. As a result my quality of life began to suffer to the point where I wasn’t just missing out on things myself, but I really felt I was letting my family down because there were so many things that I was afraid to do.

That’s when I finally decided that I’d had enough. I wanted to get my life back! I wasn’t sure it was possible, but I had to try and find a solution. And when I finally found something that worked after so many years of anxiety and suffering attacks I actually cried!

I don’t think it was until I was finally cured that I realized just how unhappy I’d been for all those years and how my anxiety had dominated my life.

It’s not really an exaggeration to say that I feel like I’ve been given a brand new life to live and I’m so grateful that I still get emotional when I think back to how I used to be (Click here to read about Joe Barry’s “One Move” – the technique that finally cured me).

That’s why I’m writing this blog – because if I can change after all that time then anyone can.

Love, Mary x