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| Wed, 03-22-2006 - 10:27am |
Do you ever feel pretty normal, and you are walking along perhaps at the store or in a mall, or maybe you are out to eat with a friend, and suddenly you feel that 'disconnected' feeling, or that slightly dizzy off-balance feeling that sends you into anxiety mode or even worse, a panic attack?
What do you do to cope with this when it happens?

I am a long time lurker/occasional poster and this question just made me come out of hiding! I thought i was the only one who experienced that feeling! i will be sitting somewhere, happily enjoying myself and allof a sudden i will feel a wave come over me and I just feel "disconnected" or something. Its hard to describe. I just feel out of it. Spacey... just weird.
Robin
I am sure that it's my anxiety. It happens everytime I walk into Walmart. I am put off by the lighting, the size of the store, the people, the smells & what seems to be a motor running. It vibrates. I feel that things aren't real. That I'm not really there. That the world is on a tilt. My mind races. I become convinced that the new merchandise smells may be toxic & I'll be poisoned. I can't catch my breath. I have to belly breathe & think positively to ward off the panic. If the conditions are right, any one of these sensations can set off one of my *spells* totally out of the blue anywhere I might be. Just like you, Jennifer, something can remind me as I sit in front of the pc & that's all she wrote. It's very scary, but I have learned that it won't harm me & I have found comfort in knowing others have these feelings, too. HTH (((hugs))) jan
P.S. The illness you experienced may be the trigger for today. You may be more stressed out than you actually are aware of.
Thanks everyone for all your responses.
I think my just getting over being sick is playing a role with mine acting up like this.
Jennifer
"Oh, that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evi
(((Jennifer))) You WILL get there again.
Sheri Ann
Jan,
I thought I was the only one with the Wal-Mart issue! Walking into large stores like that - even the grocery store sometimes - just throws my brain askew. Some days it's really bad and then some days it's barely anything at all. Now that I'm learning all these new things, I guess that on the days that it's bad it's probably a sign that I'm already fairly stressed out and should take some "me" time to decompress.
~Meghan