...Here goes my story, some kind of story that anyone in the world might be identified with, because mine, is a "nowaday
popular breakdown" sometimes due to stress, sometimes due to life. My testimony could help people to find the way to answers to the problem or just share some of the common sufferings which it carries.
I used to be a standard girl, like all the girls of my age. I studied hard to get my degree in education with the best qualifications, I have to say that I always was looking for recongnition from people, but life taught me that nobody recongises you for the good actions but for the bad ones.I have to say also that I have always been exigent with myself.I´ve never forgiven me any error or mistake. And I had so many...I have always dreamt with a big, happy family, with children around me, with a husband, with love. But Iam near thirty and I have nothing. On my birthday number twenty nine I began to have some
horrible premonitions that something bad would be going to happen to me, like death, and I began to fear of death. How, how could I have that feelings being such a young person? My life changed for me and for my family from then on.
I wake up crying sometimes, when doing a queue I could not stand on my feet, I felt like going to faint, my hands perspired too much and after that the cramps started. My heart beated too fast that I was afraid to be suffering a heart attack, I lost all kind of conciousness, I didn´t know where was I or even what was the date at that moment. I only wanted to run away, far away from all that people around me...from my own family! And then, all was clear again. In all that moments I was having a panic attack. But I didn´t know that. Nobody explain me that. I began to research about all that symptoms but nothing. I went through doctors of all the branches of medicine, but nothing. I was perfect for them! Until a friend told me that she was also suffering from panic
attacks with exactly the same symptoms and she opened my eyes.
Now I know that all my miseries are only inside my brain and inside me, I know that nothing horrible is going to happen. Iam fighting with all my strength to continue a good life, and to reach my goals, but most important of all I know that Iam not alone, Iam not the only one in the universe who suffers from this pathology, thousands of people are in similar o worse conditions, and it is a problem that can be easily controlled even defeated. So my advice is: do not panic when panic attacks, look for assistance and remember You are not alone, I''ll be thinking of you at that time.