I don't know many things that are worse than waking up in the middle of the night with a panic attack.
They come and go but when you are suffering from them sometimes you wonder if they are really ever going to subside.
I have been the victim of very lengthy panic attacks that left me unable to function at all, basically leaving me on the floor until it passed.
But the fact is that it did pass, but the anxious feeling, the anticipation of when that next panic attack would strike was always in the back of my mind.
For someone that has never felt the pain or anxiety and panic attacks it is difficult to describe both how they feel and the profound effect that they can have on every aspect of your life.
They keep you from enjoying simple things that many people enjoy out of fear of triggering another round of anxiety.
Panic attacks strike at random, when you are or are not expecting them and they leave you drained and ready for relief.
So what can be done to help fix the anxiety and panic attacks? One thing that I found very beneficial in my quest to snuff out panic and anxiety attacks was reading other people's success stories.
It was so helpful to be able to see that others were able to overcome their own panic attacks, and it held out hope to me that mine would some day be ancient history, once I got them under control.