So there i was this morning, at the hairdressers, getting a colour. Chatting away to the hairdresser about my holiday coming up.
Uh oh, start feeling a tad wierd, oh no, tingling all over body, arghhh, now I'm so hot I think my body temperature has gone through the roof. Every where I look I trip out, start to lose it. Heart starts to pound harder. NOOOOOO. not here in front of everybody please no. Wierd thoughts enter my head.
Now I'm thinking should I run out, I've got a headful of foils, I can't. Right missy, concentrate, breath very deeply, don't try to look around as it's making me freak out a bit. So I repeat over and over in my head, "You'll be right, just breath, this is not going to happen here, OK! Calm down, all is OK, ask for some water and sip that. keep breathing deeply. This is just a panic attack come to visit me. Settling down now, feeling more normal, keep going, keep going."
So there i was this morning, at the hairdressers, getting a colour. Chatting away to the hairdresser about my holiday coming up.
Uh oh, start feeling a tad wierd, oh no, tingling all over body, arghhh, now I'm so hot I think my body temperature has gone through the roof. Every where I look I trip out, start to lose it. Heart starts to pound harder. NOOOOOO. not here in front of everybody please no. Wierd thoughts enter my head.
Now I'm thinking should I run out, I've got a headful of foils, I can't. Right missy, concentrate, breath very deeply, don't try to look around as it's making me freak out a bit. So I repeat over and over in my head, "You'll be right, just breath, this is not going to happen here, OK! Calm down, all is OK, ask for some water and sip that. keep breathing deeply. This is just a panic attack come to visit me. Settling down now, feeling more normal, keep going, keep going."
It went away. I resumed chatting to hairdresser!
THESE THINGS ARE NOT GOING TO BEAT ME!
Dear Jordie,
I missed this I guess because I was under attack by the thought of mossies. I can really relate to this one. Once when I worked, I was working on a software development with another co-worker. He was taking phone call after phone call and he knew I needed his keyin information but he could not get off the phone. I waited and waited. Finally He got off and we when over to a workstation and there were a lot of others around the area. He started telling me the keystrokes and all of a sudden, here it comes, same as you, only this time I could not stop it. I stood up, turned around to him and said, "I can't do this right now". He just stared at me and said, "Okay". I went outside for about 15 minutes and then came back in and said, "I'm ready now" and we went back and did the work. He never asked or said a thing. Somethimes I think we just believe everyone thinks we are freaking out but they really can relate but just don't want to know. So if you have to walk out do so or tell them you need to use their restroom right now and can't wait. Sometimes when you got to go bad enough, you sweat, shake and everytlhing else like a painc attack. Might be a bit embrassed in that manner but at least they will not know it is panic attack. Just my techniques from the past. Be good and have fun.
panic attacks while getting hair done are common as you are trapped and cant really leave
just relax, do the deep slow breathing and wait a while for it to pass
I have not had one come to full boil in public, so far I've been able to control them, but I do have the feeling that everyone around can tell that something is going on & like you said, Sickman, probably no one notices any difference in us, it's just us thinking they know what is happening.
Jordie, you did the right thing, you talked it down & hopefully, it gets easier & easier.
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