Thread: Embarrassment

so why do you freak out if your in the car with some one? what if they put you in the back of the car? or what if you follow someone?
papa smurf

WHY do you panic, Banjo? What is in your mind at that time?

agerophobia is panic attacks ..Its um i dont know how to explain it they just happen & when they do they usualy happen big time ..Plus i make the worst passenger & i like to be in control of a car..even if Karen was to pick me up from here i would panic ...& unfortunatly for me to just say right im going to my docs back home from here & was able to do this with no dramas i guess i would be out visiting people & doing everything like a normal person & i probably wouldn't be in the situation i am at the moment.
I had some normality at home & was able to do some thing on my own as everything was close by...& i was working towards taking Cody to footy training a couple of times on my own & going to a few of his home games aswell now thats gone....I wouldn't make it from here but i will give it a go if im still here when he starts footy again not to training but to some of his home games...

Doing that is alot differant to going to the docs as i am always scared of catching something from sitting in the waiting room & its better if i know the outlay of somewhere first it helps & makes it easier to go there.. So i don't know about the shrink as i have never been to there offices so it would be something new all together & i would be nervouse...

Just trying to understand what's going thru your mind just before you have the attack. If being in the driver's seat helps you to feel in control, then when you have an attack is it because something makes you fear you're losing control? What could that be, I wonder?
I mean, obviously you're NOT losing control, you are still in control, so there has to be some trigger to cause you to wrongly think you're losing control when you're actually not. Probably didn't explain that very well...sorry.

I found this while doing some reading. May be something helpful there...

http://au.reachout.com/find/articles/panic-attacks

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

WHY do you panic, Banjo? What is in your mind at that time?

That ones hard it varies i spose but i spose its more the thought of another panic attack cause i know how bad they are & they are embarressing when they happen ...Aus said i was shaking like a leaf when i visited him at Kotara & i didn't think i was but obviesly i was & that made me feel embarest after i read that ...sort of makes me want to stay at home so it never happens again or that no one sees it again... But i was doing quiet a lot back home i even took aus home from the dentist & i visited him at home & at Kotara but that would never happen from here its way to far & i cant turn around & head for home then try again once i settle myself ..when i visited aus at Kotara i had to stop twice pull over then carry on ..

So the fear of having an attack is part of the cause of you having an attack?

banjo i am in newcastle tomorrow from 730am i have time to stop in if you are not doing anything

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

So the fear of having an attack is part of the cause of you having an attack?

YES mostly . But the smell of alcohole will do it to me aswell some men can do it to me aswell , u only have to talk down to me & i'm off panicing..

There are some other smells that can do it to..Some voices do it aswell.