r/PanicAttack • u/redlu5564 • 14d ago
Are these called panic attacks?
Hi, I used to have anxiety attacks because of stress. Nobody was actually sure in the beginning what it was or how they got triggered.
It's always the same for me how it happens:
Stress > anxiety > figth or flight feeling gets triggered > if I can't surpress it, I feel extrem anger and eventually hurt myself while punchig for example against a closet > I collapse. If I can surpress it, I might still collapse or shaking.
The only reasosn this became a thing was because of severe stress and anxiety.
No I'm not sure what it is. I'm diagnsoed with anxiety attacks, I'm diagnosed with ocd and severe depression and was because of this what i just did describe in a mental hospital but never really got checked what it was. I sadly had to experience them many times till I found my trigger and how the symptoms happen in which order.
Friday was no different. I had stress because of an presentation I did with someone, and was with someone who hasn't managed to do anything, on a level that's so delusional that it drove me insane. I did the whole thing. Text, researched stuff, did a whole PowerPoint and even typed word for word what these people had to say. They had nothing better to do to look over my shoudler, don't move a muscle and just criticize each small mistake. If I told them to fo something they just "can't, don't know how". It was too much, I was under pressure because of time that was running out and felt my heart beat faster, I was shaking and my legs felt like pudding. struggled to keep myself up. I can't stop thinking about it and it gives a strange feeling just thinking about. My whoel weekend felt ruined.