Thursday, 21 May 2015

HOW A KIND STRANGER GAVE ME MY LIFE BACK

excited man have a fear of something. studio shot over dark background
Sweaty palms, hard breathing, pulse rate gone wild.
That horrifying feeling that you are going to die any second.
This is the story of my living nightmare which I managed to escape through a simple solution when I thought all hope was lost.
I began having panic attacks early in my life. I was in college when I had my first attack. It was in the middle of the night and my roommate was sound asleep. Suddenly my palms got sweaty and I started breathing very heavily. My heart started beating like crazy and the more I struggled to inhale air, the more I felt I couldn’t breathe.
I still remember the horrible thought that crossed my mind: So this is how I die? In a shared dorm with a roommate I barely know surrounded by law books I don’t really care about.
I thought I was having a heart attack.
I managed to scream and my roommate got up. He called an ambulance and I was rushed to a hospital. That was when I found out that I was having a panic attack. A sleepy and rather annoyed doctor called the nurses to take over and he scribbled some anti-anxiety drugs on a prescription and left then marched out the room.
Three weeks later I had already had 8 panic attacks. I was on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
Over the next couple of years I changed more psychologists and therapists than a girl changes shoes. I couldn’t hold a job and I was nervous all the time just at the thought that I might experience another attack. I had become someone I didn’t recognize.
And then the kindness of a complete stranger saved me from my hell.
She was a waitress at a café I used to visit. One day I had a panic attack at that café while eating some pancakes. She abandoned her work and rushed to help me. When everything was over, I was embarrassed and wanted to go home. The truth was, I liked this girl and now she’d seen how weak I was. I was mortified.
But before I did she stopped me and told me that she could help. Then she told me that she also used to have panic attacks. That was until she found a method from a therapist.
Dr Anna Gibson-Steel had discovered the amazing fact that panic attacks are triggered by the same part of the brain that triggers hiccups – the lizard brain.
The panic attacks are nothing but the expression of your survival instinct going haywire. Her simple three step solution takes less than 60-seconds and it completely de-activates the switch that causes your survival instinct to malfunction (which leads to panic attacks).
So that kind stranger (who I had a secret crush on) showed me the video which gave me back my life.

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