It Really Makes You Realise…
Just how much of an impression you’ve made on people in a short time. To further on my efforts to bring my new life experience into the public eye, but also to help spare myself the embarrasment of having an attack in public (something apparently that every panicer fears most of all), I have told my one of my two remaining teachers about it. FunkyTeacher reacted..well…not exactly as I expected him to. Truth be told I expected some kind of ‘What the fuck?’ reaction out of him, but ’tis not what I received at all. He didn’t hand me sympathy on a platter, but rather some down-to-earth and userful advice on what to do to handle these attacks and prevent them from happening in the first place. Turns out he himself used to get them, which actually came as a surprise becuase he is one of the calmest people I know. Now I know how much of a struggle it can be for him to maintain his cool sometimes, I am even more in awe of the man.
One of the guys in my class turned out to be an even better friend than I had first imagined too. Seems he’s had panic attacks himself in the past, and his wife gets them too. He’s been most supporting, and doesn’t let me slip into a self-pitying thing about it, for which I am most grateful, because that’s a downward spiral I don’t want to even contemplate getting into.
Now I know I’m not sounding too coherent here, I’m just having trouble arranging my thoughts today, and really just wanted to get something down onto virtual paper about this, something safe, something so that I can know that I can beat this, becuase I’ve got friends who have done it too.
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