Moments In Time......: A Season of my Soul
A link to my other blog that is related to my panic and anxiety.
Thursday, October 29, 2015
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
The Nature of Panic Disorder
Wow! It's been a year since I posted here. I really can't believe it but yes I guess I can. I have been so busy tending to surviving the daily battle of panic attacks. I feel like I've been running a marathon for a solid year. I have journaled on my IPad during the tough nights and sporadically during the day. I wasn't able to focus on an actual blog post.
I know I am not alone in this. I know that when I tried to join a stress and anxiety support group that we sufferers had to attend at a given date and time, inevitably attendance was 1 to 5 people depending if that person could make it from their house to the meeting that day. Traffic may have been unbearable, the time slipped our mind, depression took over. You understand, I know you do!
So here we are a year later. I survived and am here to tell the tale that we are survivors. We fight and we push and we are constantly exhausted from the fight but never giving up we make it to the time when things finally break through the dark cloud into the blue sky where we can actually see the leaves on the trees, see past the tunnel that is our vision, see to the right and to the left of the thing we are able to strenuously focus on. We can breathe better and we can write to encourage those in the middle storm that it does stop for awhile.
We are strong. My son says I am the strongest person he knows, fighting while working, raising him, caring for my elderly mother...all things most people do but those things plus my struggle makes me the strongest person he knows. I am blessed to have his words of wisdom and encouragement in my head daily. I remember what he said and I keep going!
My year post will be long and maybe boring but hearing and reading will help you know you are not alone and maybe give you ideas of how to deal with the things I went through because they may be your things now or later and you will relate.
I know I am not alone in this. I know that when I tried to join a stress and anxiety support group that we sufferers had to attend at a given date and time, inevitably attendance was 1 to 5 people depending if that person could make it from their house to the meeting that day. Traffic may have been unbearable, the time slipped our mind, depression took over. You understand, I know you do!
So here we are a year later. I survived and am here to tell the tale that we are survivors. We fight and we push and we are constantly exhausted from the fight but never giving up we make it to the time when things finally break through the dark cloud into the blue sky where we can actually see the leaves on the trees, see past the tunnel that is our vision, see to the right and to the left of the thing we are able to strenuously focus on. We can breathe better and we can write to encourage those in the middle storm that it does stop for awhile.
We are strong. My son says I am the strongest person he knows, fighting while working, raising him, caring for my elderly mother...all things most people do but those things plus my struggle makes me the strongest person he knows. I am blessed to have his words of wisdom and encouragement in my head daily. I remember what he said and I keep going!
My year post will be long and maybe boring but hearing and reading will help you know you are not alone and maybe give you ideas of how to deal with the things I went through because they may be your things now or later and you will relate.
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