You can tell yourself everything is alright and that you're not stressed out. You're handling everything just fine. You're an expert at juggling and keeping everyone happy.
Nope.
You're sitting at your laptop and you feel your heart start banging around in your chest. You have to take deep breaths. Keep calm. It's a panic attack.
I don't like the name panic attack because in my personal experience it happens when I am quiet, not panicking. Heart disease runs in my family so when I had my first one many years ago my initial thought was heart attack. A co-worker, who was a sympathetic soul, told me to lie down on the office couch because it was a panic attack. We didn't need to call the paramedics just yet.
Periodically someone will post on Facebook a bare bones explanation of why people have panic attacks and that those that experience them should not be ashamed. "They are signs of having tried to remain strong for too long." I cannot argue with that as those are the times I experience them.
My heart and mind voted to have my body, the big mouth, do the talking for them. "Take it easy. Don't put so much pressure on us because you are freaking us out!"
Got it. I'll make some changes. Thanks. And sorry.
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