From the Author
If You Feel Alone With Panic Attacks, Read this book!I was 13 when sitting in a classroom and unable to breathe
suddenly. Well, actually, I felt I couldn't breathe. I felt
petrified and sick to my stomach. I didn't know what was
happening to me and stared at the clock in this math class,
not being able to wait til I could get out.
This was the
first of hundreds or thousands of panic attacks. I didn't
know what I had til I was 25 or so. Although I got through
college (miraculously), I couldn't work as a therapist as
I'd studied to do.
Within a year of graduating from college,
I was housebound. I spent the day on my sofa hyperventiling.
I was a zombie. I couldn't eat much as I'd choke even on
saliva. I feared everything and barely took the moments to
get the mail outside my door.
After many years of therapies
and finally medications, my life has made drastic changes.
I have a life now. I travel many places besides being able to
shop, interact with people, and basically have a life.
Life
Isn't Just a Panic is filled with stories and information
from the National Institute of Mental Health to give hope to
those like me who thought they'd spend the rest of their
lives in a living hell.
There is hope. There is recovery.
You do have a life and this book tells how others like you
did it.