“People Do Not Understand How You Feel…”
One of the Hardest Things About Having Anxiety and Panic Attacks, is that the People Around You Simply Do NOT Understand How You Feel.
You tell them how terrifying a panic attack is and they think you are just exaggerating. You explain the anxious thoughts you have and they remark, “Hey I get stressed too”. You tell them that you wake each morning with a sense of dread, and they say “Oh come on, who is a morning person?”.
They simply don’t get it.
The weekend is coming up and your partner wonders why you can’t just go out for dinner with friends and leave your fears behind? What they don’t get is that sometimes you think you will actually die the fear is so intense and that your mind is in such a fog that you won’t be able to enjoy yourself for a minute.
You wish they could understand this – and when they don’t you feel alone and depressed.
I’ve got two things to say about this:
1. YOU ARE OKAY
Yes you have a problem that needs correcting. You wouldn’t be reading this right now if you didn’t. That’s why you surf the net looking for answers. That’s why you constantly worry if this problem is more serious than just anxiety. You worry about the scary bodily sensations and if you will always be like this. You get a jolt of fear at the thought of losing control in front of your friends or co-workers.
I know all this because I have been there. I have had the exact same thoughts and fears as you have had.
And you know what? It’s OK.
It’s OK because all of this is curable. All of the anxiety can be healed and no, you are not going to lose control or go insane and NO a panic attack is not going to kill you. It’s all OK because you are perfectly safe….
2. FORGIVE THEM
Forgive those that belittle your anxiety. They have no idea how terrifying it can feel. Forgive the doctor that dismissed your story and told you to just go home and try deep breathing. Forgive the friend who stopped calling because you no longer could go out. Forgive the boss who placed all that extra stress unnecessarily on you. Forgive them all because they just don’t know how difficult it is without having experienced it for themselves.
3. GIVE THANKS
Stop for a moment and tell your anxiety you are actually happy it is part of your life. That might be the last thing from your mind right now but anxiety will become your ally, not your enemy. Believe it or not, this problem will teach you how to be a BIGGER PERSON!
Anxiety will give you the greatest gift possible, greater self awareness. It may not feel like that now because you are in the eye of the storm but you will come through this and out the other side stronger.
You will WIN in the end.
It reminds me of a conversation I had a few weeks ago with someone who had completed the Panic Away program. She said after so many years of anxiety and panic attacks she could finally see the hidden lesson and gift of anxiety. She now had a rock solid sense of confidence that had not been there before. She felt her old self again. She won in the end and you will too.
Let me show you how to win…
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To Your Success….
Barry Joe McDonagh
Author of www.PanicAway.com
Tania
I cannot thank you enough!!!! You are really helping me!!! What an inspiration…God Bless!
Brendalee
Barry, My wonderful hubby signed me up for your e-mails, I have had panic attacks off and on thru my adult life, My age is 55,i have been ill with c.o.p.d. now for five years and when i get over welmed i go into a panic mode which triggers my breathing ,which makes it hard to breathe even with oxygen, I do take Xanax, It does help me alot and i really am not worried about addiction to them, as i take as directed.When you have a hard time breathing as it is>>panic makes it so much worse,It is good to see I am not alone,Thanks,
Chelsea Garcia
Thank you Barry for that inspiring news letter you sent me. Its gotten to the point where I can’t go to the mall or big public places let alone the store by myself. I’m scared of the unknow and have small panic attacks even when I think about it.The upside is that I take my little sister with me to do errands. It helps to have company when I go somewhere. But now that I have an apartment and living in another town because of college it’s getting harder. I really do hope you can help me with this problem of mine. That would be great to not have to worry. I really approiate the time your taking to help me with this. Have a nice day and God bless.
Thank you once again, and can’t wait for your next news letter.
Chels
praveena
Thanks a lot for giving this advice as I get some solace while reading this and knowing that I am not alone and there are many suffering like me. May god bless you
Alaina
Hi Barry, I just want to say that I did try going to counceling only for that person to tell me what everyone else had already told me (and more expensive). I realized it was not for me. I read alot of your messages and they really inspired me. I have moved forward with my life, got a better job, and stopped associating with those who only caused me greater stress. I have been alot less stressed and have not had a panic attack since the last time I received a message from you. Things have become alot easier now with your helpful words of wisdom. Thank you so much. P.S. please do send me letters though. Everything helps.
Vicky Manning
Thank you for your words of wisdom. I have come to terms that I will have panic attacks the rest of my life BUT I will not let them stop me from doing what I want to do. I have tried some of the things you have given to help me through them and they help a lot. I think some of us are just more sensitive than others.
John Cone
i really like what you said about how anxiety and panic can actually make you stronger if you learn to over come it. i really agree with that. thanks
Fredrik
Hello Joe i got your email thank you
my name is Fredrik i live in Finland
so my english is not the best but i
have been suffering from panic attacs now
for 13 years and it whas away for 2 years now this summer i got it
back 10 times whorse than ever before i have been thinking alot
about takeing my life! and i am going to hypnosis and cychaiatrist
and it does not help and i have tryed the Linden method it has helped a little but not
egnuf so i do whant to fry your program now and i hope it will help me
i also did add you on FB
Fredrik
Tina
Thank You for your wonderful support, I do have the program and read it couple times a week, I deal with generalized anxiety and have been better these last couple of weeks. While reading your posts and knowing Iam not alone is very helpful. Lord Jesus has been a huge influence on me as well. I give myself to him. Try to anyway…Thank you again for your posts, I appreciate them.
Bernard-Alain
Dear Barry,
Thank you for this post.
I will certainly keep this post and any future one for references.
Since i have purchased the panic Away program,i am feeling great and life is completely different for me.There are still rooms for improvement,but i can now the end of the tunnel,just in front of me.
Continue this good work.
Cheers,
Bernard-Alain
Oladipo
Hi Barry,thanks for your advice,i will put it to good use.
asma qadeer
thank you so much for becoming a healer in making me fight panic attacks successfully. You are a great help
Natasha
Dear Barry,
thank you for helping out with this problem. Yes, you are right when you say that people dont understand what is one going through when they say “i have a panic attack”. They dont understand what is like to “lock down” your brain and expect something bad is going to happen. But you do and thank you for trying to make everything easier for all of us who have the anxiety and panic problem. I havent really talked to anyone about it, you simply stop after a while because no one seems to understand, but it was good to read all your advices on how to deal with the problem on daily basis. Thank you for all the help ..
Debbie
Dear Barry,
I live in Fresno, California, however, I needed to be in Long Beach, California to take an exam for a job. Yesterday I took the Greyhound bus to L.A. that was to connect to the Greyhound bus into Long Beach. The bus broke down, missed my connection to Long Beach…had to take three L.A. city buses for hours to get to my destination–this could have all been prevented had my “significant other” who lives in Long Beach picked me up in L.A., but refused to pick me up in L.A. Anixiety? Oh, yeah…
It continued this morning with me, using my significant other’s vehicle to go to the job exam–had a blowout on the freeway….Anixiety? Oh, yeah…
I finally got back and was looking at my emails and saw your message…Timely? Oh, yeah…
Thank you for your words of encouragement…thank you for affirming the way I feel right now…thank you for the hope that is here…Grateful? Oh, yeah…
Have a beautiful day! Please keep me on your list!
Debbie
Anne
A very big thankyou for your free emails. I cant wait to read them as they are so helpful and comforting.I know now Im not alone and its not going to last forever. I cant thankyou enough
Ash
Hi Barry,
Thank you for a wonderful help and inspiration…I’m currently through a ‘setback’…Setbaks are not easy..but the good thing is I know how I got through before, and I just need to do the steps again, and read such articles like yours.
Thanks again
Miranda
Barry,
I’m not sure if you read all of your comments a lot, because you get a lot of them, (simply because your advice is amazing), but I suffer from anxiety, yet, I’m on a pill that makes me feel numb, in a way. Its hard to describe but, because of this pill, (lexapro), I don’t know what I’m feeling all the time. I haven’t been taking it every night like I’m suppose to because I’m sick of feeling nothing, so I only take it when I’m in the dire need to. I’ve been on the pill since I was 7, and I”m 15 years old now, and I think because my body’s changing, its affecting me differently.
Anyway, my point is, is that now I’m really starting to experience how anxiety works, I’ve suffered from anxiety for a very very long time, but because of lexapro, I haven’t had one in a while. So, yesterday, in school, I had a panic attack for 3 class periods straight..>.< I want to learn how to overcome my anxiety without the pill, but its so hard because without the pill, I'm very very prone to having an anxiety attack at anytime.
I know I will be able to use your advice soon, and I know my best friend could use it too..I just thought I'd share this with you and see if you had anything to say about it, if its possible on this blog page. I really really appreciate the things you share with the many people who need to hear this stuff, you are amazing Barry!
Thank you =)
Miranda.
Paul Rooney
Hi Barry you are really helping me out the advice you are giving is working wonders for me i am not fully fine but its slowly working and doing better than any other treatment or advice giving to me i really want to thank you for taking the time to help me
thank you very much
Paul
Shawna
Wow and thankyou Barry. I did enroll in the emails and advice from you because I was I think, suffering from major anxiety especially during the night. It seems to have eased but I still do suffer from anxiety from having a social life. I get panicky when I know people are coming over or with the thought of making a new friend. Because of this I run away and don’t pursue any friendships now. I come up with every excuse in my mind not to get to know that person or not to go to that social event. I fear rejection BIG TIME and feel that I always have to be perfect…and then I PANIC! Your email sent to me today shows me that there are so many others that are feeling the same! I’m not crazy! LOL Thankyou and I look forward to more. It meant alot.
Juanita Hurst
Every morning around 6 am, something awakens me,, with out exception,, every day… my heart is beating faster and harder, I feel very jittery and become very warm to the point of sweating. I am on 2% oxygen at night, have just had a sleep apnea test done with no definite results. I never go back to sleep after one of these episodes. sometimes I feel real shaky , like inside, … are these panic attacks??? If so why are they EVERY morning? it is Nov. 5, 2010 3:15 pm…….. any one else out there have these ffeelings every day? Juanita
chopra
you get it right each time i get ur emails.
iv been facing the situation since 3 years now.. with a past of drugs and alcohol, anxiety actually made me come clean of it all…
its worth having it, its almost a blessing from god, perhaps we were the chosen ones to experience life more intensly.
but its got the other side too, im 22, and im into hospitality industry, by profession im an entrepreneur and run restaurants. its big responsibility and cause of anxiety i cant move forward wid things. could you give me an insight of how to think right. no matter wtever i try negativity and anxiety strikes.
iv already passed through the stages of feeling suicidal and iv visited a psychologist and psychatrist. but its been hectic. i dont know how patience pays… though i know it all, the sinking feeling and sweaty hands kills me throughout till date..
Lorena
Thanks for your support. It is true that when people do not understand it just make you feel like another weighton top of that mountain you already carry on your shoulders. This newsletter is very helpful, it came just at the right time, since my grandmother passed away 2 days ago and I was feeling anxious, not that now I do not but I try to keep myself busy and try to be a support to my mom, that now will have a big change in her life and lives in another country, so step by step, day by day. Thank God my Mother and my husband do not make me feel bad on the contrary they are a support and my kids do not even know; somehow I have been surviving all these years, but I still would like to live a happier and healthier life.
Thank you very much for your time and advice,
Lorena
ghazaleh
THank you. you cant imagine how much your advices could change someone’s life
Matthew M
Its so true! People don’t understand and its frustrating trying to explain how it feels. I have Panic Disorder and would love this program.
Michele Losse
Dear Barry,
Your message could not have come up at a better time. I have been suffering from anxiety on and off for 4 years, and this was triggered by a job I didn’t get and was doing for a while. It took me a while to accept my new boss and we had some issues we resolved last year. I got back to normal and after a long holiday in the summer the anxiety came back. As you said the physical symptoms are strong, and I get obssessive thoughts which are hard to get rid off, especially at night, always analysing something my boss said perhaps in a sharper tone of voice than normal. It’s always about her, and I know I still feel resentful and my pride finds it hard to accept this position. Yet on good days when the anxiety goes, I can’t understand why it happens at all! The worse are the physical symptoms such as headaches and knots in the stomach or feelings of panic over nothing. Thanks for your message.
sharif
You just changed my life. You are blessed for people those who are having a panic attack for years after year.
Thank you so much.
Fausto
I love to read your words, your emails and newsletters are very positive, and make things seem so easy and so practical they have helped me alot, even i never read your book “One Move”, but the mini curse was very usefull. Thank You Again, and keep sending positive vibrations with panic away emails, they always come in the rigth moment .
Fausto
Issa
Dear Mr. Joe Barry, thanks for sending me a newsletter again, and telling me that I’m okay. To tell you the truth, I am healed and my panic/anxiety attacks were gone. I followed your basic instructions about the 7-11 breathing method, I searched and searched the internet and found that if you have panic/anxiety attacks, you have to have a peppermint candy all the time and I did all that. To top it all, I went to see a doctor, not just 1, but 3 doctors, and all of them, would not say that what I am experiencing at that time is a panic/anxiety attack, they had me gone through several tests, like heart ( ecg & ultrasound), lungs (I cannot remember the test name), and all the blood tests to check my sugar, cholesterol, etc. after knowing that everything is okay (except for my cholesterol, but it’s under control now), they all correlated my panic/anxiety attacks to pre menopausal symptoms… now I am okay, sometimes mild dizzines comes but it only means that my menstruation is coming… Thank you very much again for your help, I had been practicing that 7-11 breathing and drinking lots of water everyday. Please continue helping people. GOD BLESS YOU.
samantha
Dear Barry, Your panic away program has relly helped me. Panic attacks were something that crept up on me and got worse and worse over the course of a year and i came across your program and when i read it i cried. You explained all the symptoms i was feeling and i instantly felt relieved, i also showed it to my husband which gave him a greater understanding of what i was feeling.
I still feel slight generalized anxiety but it doesnt control my life now.
Thankyou for your follow up letter x
judith lapierre
dear barry, thankyou for the contact. i appreciate all of your help. i wish to have all of the information i can aquire. many in my family suffer so badly. my brother is in such bad shape because of anxiety i fear for him. two daughters have severe anxiety. my mother suffered for years. she has passed away now but it breaks my hear to realize just how much she suffered. yes you are right. nobody can understand these feelings if they do not suffer with this problem. i am working on myself daily. thanks to some of your info i have learned to accept the problem and work with it. i am not as bad as i was. i am a work in progress. i also print info to give to my brother. keep it comming!!! sincerley judy
Gladys
Thank you for taking your time to help others.
I dont think that even my therapist could use better words than you, and that is because you has been there too, you know how desperate we fell.
Thank you and please keep helping us .
buck978
I’ve had GA for a long time. Doctors, drugs, and therapy seem to help, but if you don’t have it, you don’t understand it! I know one day, I’ll be in control. June, I’m going to Ireland, so I set a goal for myself to be on the mend. Thank you for your very timely remarks, and hope!
Buck
kellie
I would just like to say that I haven’t experienced any panic attacks for 8 months now & I can’t express how different life feels, before when I was having panic attacks I felt uncomfortable around people even talking to people in the shop, now I don’t feel like I am stuck in a box and am free to be myself, I had always been a people person and for 2 years my panic attacks had taken that away from me, Some people may ask “how did you overcome this” well for me it was recognizing when they started to happen, had anything happened to me, and the answer was “yes” so I confronted the situation told my friends and family, went back to church & that’s when I felt freedom, it didn’t happen over night but after the days, then weeks, then months went by without having any panic attacks, I can say now that I am free from them, of course i still feel nervous when I have to present a presentation infront of a group of people but that is normal, at least I can drop my son off at his school look people in the eye and feel comfortable talking with them and not feeling like I want to escape, I can call up my friends and say lets go out as before I avoided going out, I can go to the shop and buy chocolate, milk etc without feeling uncomfortable, Panic away did provide some useful tools before I confronted my situation, everyone circumstances are different, but I do believe that there is a light at the end of that tunnel – keep moving forward – Kia kaha (stand strong),
Lindy
Good Morning Barry, I received your first email this morning and your comment about us being able to eventually be grateful for the anxiety was quite timely as I took up painting as a hobbie about 5 years ago… which turned into being more therapeutic than anything as I found I was able to draw emotions from deep within and then allow the strength of the colours of such emotions and the images release onto the canvas. Now, just five years on, I’ve sold 67 paintings and have just been approached by the Senior Registrar of the Mental Unit of a local large hospital to interview me about my journey with agoraphobia and to publish my art, the story associated with the art and a bit of my own story into the British Journal of Psychology. I’ve only just begun to appreciate that my art can have an impact on another person and I must say, it’s a wonderful feeling. Maybe it lead me to this point. I’m also writing an e-book on my story into and through my journey which, otherwise, I would never have contemplated doing so who knows where it will all lead ehh… I look forward to receiving your newsletters. I just that ‘little bit more’ to get across the line into ‘normality’ (whatever that means) and then they’ll be no holding me back. Regards, Lindy
Sherry Steinback
Hi Barry,
I hope that this letter really finds its way to you. I am a 57 year-old woman, who has suffered from panic attacks since I was 26 year’s old – maybe even before that, and didn’t know what they were. My mom was a victim of the same thing, and died at 66 year’s old, after a miserable life suffering from panic attacks. She thought she was losing her mind, perhaps even suffering from a mental illness. As you say in your letter, as if suffering from the panic attacks isn’t bad enough, no one around you can possibly even begin to understand how you feel. They cannot relate. And, it makes the isolation of this even worse. As a child I never understood her, never had anyone at my school events, or watch me play sports, or sing in the choir – she couldn’t leave the house. I never understood until I suffered my first panic attack while driving at 26.
You know how it goes – you yell at yourself, think you are losing your mind, and suffer a terror that makes you think you could drop dead on the spot. And, sometimes, dropping dead on the spot would be just fine, if it released you from these feelings.
I am writing you because I accidentally stumbled across your website. While typing an email to a friend, on gmail, when I put the word panic in my email, the link to your site came up along the right-hand side of my email. Curious, I thought I’d check out one more website – one more claim to “cure panic attacks” – and was extremely skeptical. I have managed to live my life, getting rides from everyone, avoiding situations that made me panic, (just about everything) and panic attacks ruled my life.
I am amazed, and very happy to tell you that I suffer from panic attacks no longer – and I no longer fear them. I didn’t sign up for your material right away, but I did receive your letters. Each one touched me – it was unbelievable to me that someone finally understood. Even in ways that psychiatrists and counselors never did. (I sought help there too, but never stayed with it, as they never truly understood.) So, I signed up to download your materials. I read them at one sitting, and so many things were such a comfort. Like, I wasn’t going to die, I wasn’t going to “lose it”, and the events I thought I was afraid of, i.e. driving, etc. wasn’t what I was afraid of at all – I was afraid of being afraid. Oh my gosh, it seems so simple.
As I’m sure you are aware, putting it to the test was not as simple. You must conjure up all the courage in the world to take that first step. But I heard your voice in my head, reassuring me. There was good times and bad times, successes and failures, but I was undeterred. I yelled out loud several times while driving “bring it on!!” However, experiencing each small success was so wonderful, it made me keep trying. My life is so different today. I am freed.
Words fail me when I try to say thank you. How do you thank someone for giving you back your life? There are no words that are good enough. All I know is that you deserve a place in heaven for all the help you are giving people like me, and all the hope you are giving people like me.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Sarah
I deeply appreciate your emails Barry. It is so helpful to know that I’m not alone in my struggle, and to see someone who is so dedicated to helping others power through this awkward, strange process. Sometimes it helps to think about the Chinese symbol for “crisis” and how it has the symbol for “opportunity” embedded inside of it. It doesn’t feel like the panic attacks are an “opportunity”, but deep down I know that they are — in a counter-intuitive kind of way.
SACHIN
thanks..for your careness..your mail make me feel so much more positive .thanks a lot for such good advice, god. Bless.u,Please keep the emails coming ..
Gerry
Barry, “THANK YOU” for standing behind us all. I especially needed the pep talk today. I work in the high stress of retail managment and it’s about got the best of me. Oh yes, the majority of my friends have already abanded me. But, I’ve came to terms, with friends like that – don’t need-em anyway – not that kind. Im already over that part b/c I consider myself as being a better person in the aspect I don’t have to prey on someone’s vunerability, or cheat just to get what I want. That in itself makes me thankful I chose not to be that way. I’ve been suffering panic attacks since I was 22 – and am now 56. Through this time I’ve gotten through some things of my own but it’s like I’m still a “blind babe in the woods.” The fear of driving is my biggest. Yes, I do overreact and think way outside the box…
A few years ago, I decided in going back to school to complete my degree. I came across a diet supplement that I’m sure got me through – otherwise I don’t know if I could have did what I did. FDA pulled from the market for having a small quanity of ephedra in the supplements. The company continued to manufacture without the ephedra and sales declined b/c everyone was looking for that little jolt. I prefered to had them without the ephedra b/c for about 30 min. I’d get jittery like having a cup of coffee. Other than that, they become an everyday supplement for myself. They also contained other natural herbs with B complexs and12 essential vitamins and minerals. I never got sick. I went from having two colds a years to none for the whole seven years I was taking them. I had no stomach problems and no “panic attacks.” FDA put them back on market one last time before removing them completely. People were using them with other medications like heart. Others tryed to manufacture same formular by using bitter orange and other caff properties in place of ephedra. This did not go over. I purchased a bottle and It felt like my head was going to exployed. So, after the orginal company went belly up – I went belly down. My panic attacks returned and my stomach became over sensitve again. After I could no longer purchase, I stayed sick a whole year with colds, and all kind of ailments. It was tough b/c I’ve tried every vitamin sub on market and it either makes me sick to stomach or cramped it. I tired to contact company to see if they’ed consider going back to the formular without ephedra and refused b/c the majority would not purchase. Might have just answered my own question about something. The first time I had a panic attack I was severely using an highly additive diet pill which now is ban. After my second attack and that is when I was driving – I stopped cold turkey. That’s when all my panic attacks and other phobias started to come out. Back then, doctors though you were crazy and did little but try and plaster you with antidepressants. But the first one I tried to take made me feel worse than I did. I refuse to take anymore. It’s the “not being in control” response. It’s highly possible what I found in the last supplements I gained the power of control. I had the confidence in myself in a healthy way.
I understand that it’s through a change of cognitive thinking we pull ourselfs out of the sand trap. I’m more than ready to make some serious changes. I have a first grandbaby coming in May, I need a job change, and would love to move to another area. We stay at our old jobs b/c we reuse to move from the comfort zone – no matter how hard or stressfull it becomes. The time is here for me – I’m ready to win the battle………
Trish
Hi Barry
Just want to say thanks for your mail….You are right of course forgiveness is the most powerful approach when faced with people who have little or no understanding of anxiety and panic. Self awareness grows as a result of the pain experienced. Accepting the feelings and embracing them instead of trying to run away and squash them is already having a tremendous positive effect for me
Thank you
ted amberg
Barry, thank you for your emails,, they are helpful. However, I was recently diagnosed with cancer and have
not had a panic attack since my diagnosis; go figure. I believe there is a lesson here but Im not quite sure what that lesson is right now. I will be interested to see if the attacks return if i survive this thing.
damian somerville
thanks Barry for the news letter.I have just finished my 5 years of study in medicine and at the end of the final exams i got anxiety and panic attacks again and i also had glandular fever symptoms re surface i was exhausted. I month later and now i am back on top of the world and i have realised that alcohol does not agree with me it only makes me worse. life is great although the year has been a bit off at times. im doing my internship in a hospital in sydney now and will finish in march. Mate if you ever come to Sydney there are plenty of people out here who would love to meet you and listen to you. i was treating a young boy in clinic yesturday and his father turned to me and said that he was suffering from panic attacks and anxiety at the moment and i explained to him how your method had treated me.
Kind Regards
Damian Somerville
adam
thank you so much, keep the emails coming as they are a great help and great support through it all. it came back after a year, but i am getting better with dealing with it. thanks again!
Benny
Thanks. I refuse to take drugs to help this, I’m afraid they will just mask the problem instead of helping it. I also have two very young daughters and I don’t want them to see me drugged up or I don’t want to be “medicated” and lose time with them. I figure, either I will win, or the attacks will. I’m afraid I’m losing.
Brian
Hi forbthe first time in 12 months I feel some connection to your words and I would like to thank you for them – thankyou
alex sparago
Thank you so much for your care and concern and understanding ,its truly a great relief and godsend
to read your messages and feel understood and know you have been throught it and you are here to help guide myself and others through stressful times.I just want to say thank you and god bless you.
shery
Bary, Thanks thanks a lot.his each n every word is lighten up my day.he really researched very well about anxiety and panic attack.God bless him.I am grateful for his help.
Lori
This email came an such an opportune time for me. Today is a better day but I have been experiencing panic attacks over the last month that had been away from me for several years. The encouragement and “light” made me feel not alone.
Ronan R
hi barry thanks for the e-mails there much appreciated and really on the mark and i really hope 1 day i will beat this horrible thing.I dont suffer as much with panic attacks but always feel on edge and have a lot of endless silly mind chatter and feel sick most of the time but i know that theres thousands of symtoms to depression and anxiety sometimes i feel like i have all of them anyway keep up the good work and thanks again.
Sue
It is like you just KNEW I need this email today! 🙂 I have been struggling with this a lot lately because sometimes I think my boyfriend thinks I’m just being dramatic. He IS supportive – but because he has never had the displeasure of having panic attacks – he can never know the true feelings that I feel. Thank you for everything! I don’t know where I would be today if I hadn’t found this a couple months ago!
toni
Thank you so much for all the advice, it’s so comforting to know that someone else understands and that there are many other people out there that feel the same. The great thing is knowing that I am not going crazy.
Many thanks.