It is hard to pinpoint exactly when my anxiety started.  When I look back, I think that I may have always had it.  Hindsight is, of course, 20/20.  I have certainly always been a nervous, worried kind of person, even as a small child.  It wasn’t until I became pregnant, though, that I started to have real issues with anxiety and started to feel what I guess would be classified as attacks.

It began with quick instances where I felt as though I would not be able to get enough air with the next breath that I took.  This terrified me!  Being pregnant, however, I thought that it was happening because of the extra pressure on my lungs and ribcage.  I was surprised when it continued beyond my pregnancy.  I then started to experience other symptoms including a horrible jittery feeling, like I’d had ten cups of coffee.  Sometimes when I was out at the grocery store with my daughter, a wave of panic would wash over me; I would suddenly feel extremely hot, nauseated and like I might pass out.  Around this time I also started to have intense fears that something awful would happen to myself or my baby or my husband; I did not want to go on car trips to visit relatives because I was petrified that we would not make it there.  I really did not know what was wrong with me and because of my intense anxiety, I also had fears that I had some horrible disease that was causing all of this.  I visited the doctor several times and had numerous tests done, all of which came back normal.  The conclusion was that I had anxiety.  Great!  Now what?  At this time I really knew nothing about treatments or anxiety cures.

The doctor prescribed anxiety medication for me.  I tried it and it did take away most of my symptoms.  Unfortunately it also made me feel slow and tired.  I really did not want to live like that, especially since I had a small child to care for.  I started researching anxiety cures and eventually came across an incredibly successful program called Panic Away.  I have to admit that I was sceptical at first.  There are so many people out there trying to sell programs that wind up being complete garbage and I had never heard of this system before.  I was so desperate to fix this though, that I decided to try it.

As I read though the e-book I felt as if finally someone understood how I was feeling and became hopeful that I had made the right decision for myself.  I began using the technique and noticed a difference right away.  After a few weeks I felt free to go out and enjoy life again.  I am writing this in the hope that if someone else out there is feeling stuck like I was, that this might give them an option too – a way out.