@Eden1919 I went through years of panic attacks. There are tricks I learned and perhaps they might help you too. The first thing I am going to do is let you know a bit about your body. When something sets off your anxiety, it releases adrenalin into your body from your kidneys. The adrenalin is what helps us become alert so we can get ready fight or flee a danger. It also unfortunately has the effect of making one edgy and even more anxious. If the danger passes, the adrenalin is taken back up by the liver and the person becomes calm again. This can take some time. Please drink some water...at least a litre as often panic attacks are nothing more than lack or water, fibre or sleep and even if there are psych issues, it makes everything worse if you are dehydrated.
That is the physical part...here's the psychological part. You are (if you were anything like me) being driven by your anxiety to feel the need to make decisions like your life depended on it. It's important to slow down, and give yourself permission to not make any decisions. You can decide whether to call a help centre tomorrow, and you don't need to decide about contacting your doctor now either, and suicide can wait till tomorrow, cause let's face it, being alive another 24 hours isn't going to make a hell of a difference in the scheme of things. Since you have no decisions to make, you may as well go to sleep or do your usual boring routine. It can all wait till tomorrow. Give your mind time to rest and your body time to take up the adrenalin.
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