Hi Debbie,

Welcome and well done for sitting through your son's play!

That's what I found helped my fairly speedy recovery, challenging
myself and experiencing that feeling of pride you had there, spurred me
on no end to do other greater deeds.

Don't feel you gave in half way, loads of people who don't suffer from
anxiety feel claustrophobic in those situations and would love to have
sat where you did. The fact that you felt perfectly ok there is
wonderful progress.

I really don't think panic attacks are caused by a malfunctioning organ
in the brain, otherwise that would kind of rule out spontaneous cures,
or cures altogether really, and I've seen some amazingly quick ones.

There are some conditions that can cause the same physical effects
which may trigger an attack by association and also the withdrawal
effects of some drugs can do that but i don't think there is one organ
or gland that specifically causes anxiety and panic attacks if it's not
working properly. The only thing that gets left on is your adrenal
glands pumping out adrenaline unnecessarily and that can be dealt with
really quite swiftly with EFT.

Past traumas of any kind can start feelings of anxiety, and they don't
need to be huge either, I knew one man who traced his panics back to
being in a car and his father wouldn't stop to let him pee.

So let's concentrate more on what's happening now, deal with those
feelings very specifically with EFT and go on from there.

Nicola


On 11 Feb 2005, at 21:37, Debbie None wrote:

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> Hi my name is Debbie and I'm new here.
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> I've been racking my brain trying to figure these attacks out. I've
> done a little research on the net that said it was connected to some
> little organ (or gland I don't quite remember) in the brain that
> controls fight/flight responce. Somehow this organ's switch gets left
> in the on position causeing the attacks.
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> I'll give a little history I feel may have contributed to my attacks:
> I was molested as a child, and am also a survivor of 5 years of
> domestic violence from my x-husband.
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> Like I've said I've been trying to evaluate the circumstances that
> seem to create them. I feel that it is definately related to the
> molestation (although this only happened once by a stranger).I felt
> trapped when this happened to me. If I get into situations that
> remind me consciously or maybe subconsciously of not being able
> to "flee" if I needed to thats when I get an attack.
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> This is really restricting and bothers me so much. Especially now
> that my son has decided to become and actor and is now into
> performing in theater plays. At the last showing of his play I
> suffered an anxiety attack for the entire first half of the play. No
> one knew and I told myself I was going to fight through it and it
> wasn't going to get the better of me. I did pretty well although it
> left me with stomach pains and my chest hurt badly after. I really
> feel it was a breakthough because I useally remove myself immediately
> from the stimuli I feel is causing it. I kept telling myself it was
> ok and nothing bad is going to happen. This lasted for a full half
> hour. Even after suffering the actual physical pain from rideing it
> through I felt like I won the battle that time and I guess you could
> say I was proud of myself. I felt that was enough for one day and
> after intermission, for the second half of the play I sat towards the
> outside by a door and was perfectly fine, without a care.
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> I talk to my mother about it, thats about it. She trys to be
> supportive but doesn't completely understand. Heck I can't completely
> understand so I can't expect anyone else to. I don't talk to my
> husband (not the abuser) about it. So I guess you could say I do feel
> ashamed that this is happening and alone.
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> For those of you who understand these attacks a little more than I do
> you think they are somehow linked to past tramatic experiences? Or
> have you been told it's a malfunctioning organ (gland) in the brain?
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> I hope that wasn't too terribly long. I would appreciate any helpful
> input :0)
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> Debbie
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