Well, I am glad that the program is helping you and i am super glad that you seem to be doing so much better. Keep us posted on how your move goes! -Divaq

Thanks everybody for your advice and the program has really been helping me to over come my panic and axiety. I have been having a pretty good week. I have actually stopped a panic attack before it got to bad also. Im really learning what my triggers are and I finally have been realizeing that most of my fears are irrational and that I have no evidence to support what im thinking. I am about to move to another state and im scared but also excited. I have a lot going on in my life right now but it feels really good at the moment. Its overwhelming at times but I know I will make it through it. I have also learned that no one thinks im crazy when I do have my attacks and sometimes I just get really anxious. I have been seeking the Lord alot and that has helped tremendously. I still have worries that I might be crazy or suffer from some mental illness, but Im learning lately that I really dont have the symptoms of any of them lol... Thanks for everything and I wish you all the best. Hang in there we are going to get through this. Michelle

Hi chelle39, Welcome to the site. There are different types of therapy out there. Some therapies involve talking about the past in an attempt to understand the problem and develop some strategies for coping, etc. The Panic Program is not talk therapy. Its not about medications either. Its a treatment program thats all about getting you actively involved in your own improvement. It teaches you things you may not understand about panic and agoraphobia, your own panic, your own panic cycle, and as you learn and get involved, you begin the journey and the process of taking back control from a fear that at the moment is controlling you. It works this way: The Program guides you through the process of getting back this control. It prepares you for this, one single step at a time, and gives you some homework to bring you along from session 1 to session 2, and onward, in a series of 12 sessions over a period of twelve weeks. You mentioned in your post "but I just think if I can learn to control my anxious thoughts and stop fearing everything I would be fine." This is exactly what our program is designed to assist you with. We wish you all the best and hope that you find the program helpful. Keep us posted as to how you are doing. Casey ______________________________ The Panic Center Support Team

Well, I am no health professional or mental health professional so I am not sure what to tell you except for this. If you want a test done insist with your doctor for it to get done. It is your right to get the tests you need to stay healthy. Also, if possible, if you dislike your doctor get a better one. Also, psychiatrists usually dont wanna talk, they wanna presacribe a pill and send you home. So if you want help that is psychological in nature i suggest you go see a psychologist. They are the experts really when it comes to psychological treatments. Psychiatrists are doctors first so they try to fix you with pills first and if you dont want pills that is no good. Anyway, that is mostly the advice i have for you. Oh and also, try using the CBT program on here, it is really great and it should help you a lot :) Have a nice day and hang in there, this too shall pass! -Diva

Thanks it really helps to just know that your not alone in how you feel about things. I wish that I could find a doctor that would take me seriously and not try to force drugs on me. I want to learn how to deal with this without drugs. I have seen a phsychiatrist twice and he was no help at all. He didnt talk to me, he didnt try to explain why or what panic was. It was almost two months and I finally had to ask him myself what is wrong with me. He simply said "Oh you suffer from severe anxiety and panic disorder". Like no big deal here is you some medicine go home and forget about it. He put me on Paxil and antideppresent, Vistarel, and Triazodone. I took the Paxil and it made me worse, because I had no emotion what so ever. I can honestly say that I am all in all happy, im not depressed enough for antidepresants at this time I dont think. I did take the Vistarel though only when I got the shakes and was about to panic it helped but I just think if I can learn to control my anxious thoughts and stop fearing everything I would be fine. I absolutely refused to take the Triazodone though cause I just dont like pills I took Tylenol PM if I wanted to sleep that bad and it worked just as well. I was doing fine with my panic attacks until September 2006 after I had ovarian cysts removed from my left ovary. I was fine for about 2 days after surgery and then I began suffering from hormonal withdrawal and I didnt know at the time thats what it was and it triggered the panic again. I really feel that alot of my panic and anxiety I feel now is due to hormonal imbalance. I show all the signs of estrogen dominance. My OB doctor put me on natural progesterone but I wont take it because I smoke and it can cause blood clots if you smoke. I also wont take it because he has done no blood work to determine that it is in fact my hormones so I just wont take it until it is proven to me that it is in fact my hormones. I beleive alot of my panic over the years has been due to hormones. I always felt wonderful when I was pregnant I never had a panic attack or became anxious. I have gotten worse over the years as I have gotten older. I am really bad a week before my menstral and a week after and during so one week out of the month I honestly feel almost normal. What do you think about

Hi Chelle! First i want to say you are not alone in feeling like you are letting happiness go by. Many periods in my life i felt like that. When i relapsed in december i felt like that too. But i went to my therapist and started this program and it really helped me feel like i regained parts of myself and my life and like i will regain a lot more! As for your fear of moving, I would start by challenging all the anxious thoughts that go with it. It will help you find the positives in the situation and in you. Sorry i cannot be more helpful... Hang in there, This too shall pass! -Diva

I dont know about everyone else but I feel like I am missing out on so many things because of fear and panic. I wonder if I am ever going to ever just enjoy life like a normal human being. I know everyone has worries and ups and downs even without panic, but I feel like I am going to be this way for the rest of my life. I have three girls and I worry that my fears are going to stop them from getting to enjoy things that they want to do because I am afraid of so much that I wont be able to take them to do the things they might want to do. Like for instance I am afraid to travel and things like that. What if they want to go on vactions and Im afraid to go. I am very pesimistic I always tend to see the bad that could happen before I see the excitement and adventure in things first. I am trying to get up the courage right now to move from my home town and all my family and friends that I have live there. I am so afraid to move away from my family that I dont know what to do with myself. The town that I grew up in is very poverty stricken and there are no oppertunities at all for myself let alone my girls. I want to get out and better their lives and I am scared to death being a single mom and all. I have always been taken care of in some form or fashion and I have never been completely on my own. I am afraid that I wont be able to do it without family. There is alot of drug abuse in my home town also and I really dont want my daughters to be in that invironment anymore. There arent any lesiure activities for them to do such as bowling, skating, gymnastics, ect.. nothing at all. The town has no jobs available and I really want a better life for us all. My fiancee' works for the railroad in Tennessee and thats where he plans to make a life for us and Im scared to death. How do I over come this and realize that this is a good change for the better for all of us? Help : )