Imagine experiencing a heart attack. Even the name sounds bizarre doesn’t it? The heart is one of the vital organs for survival, isn’t it? Then why on earth would it attack your body? Imagine the pain of this! At least with a heart attack, you pass the heck out and wake up later when it’s all over. Now, imagine all your worst fears replaying again and again in your mind refusing to stop almost like a broken record while you sit there; hyperventilating unable to stop thinking about it. Imagine the slightest movements of anyone or anything around you appearing as if they are moving rapidly even if they are moving at a snail like pace of everyone else. Imagine even the softest sound alarming you as if thousands of bells were going off at the same time in a room you were stuck in with no escape. Imagine everyone you love and everything you love suddenly seeming unbearable to you and causing you grief. This my friend, this… is a panic attack. I guess you could say a panic attack is war between your body and mind both attacking each other almost as if they are fighting for survival where only one lives and the other will be obliterated.
- My definition of a panic attack.
~Excerpts from the book I’ll never write #219
14/05/2015
1:11 pm
(via littleteenagethings)
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