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Originally Posted by yougetthesmiles

Anxiety attacks? I have been hesitant to ask this question, for 1 I don't want you all to think I'm a whack job! Cause I'm not lol But I do have issues with panic attacks, they started about 2 and a half years ago, after I was bitten by the Doberman we had adopted. He tore my bottom lip in half right in front of my 2 smaller children. I had to have apx 22 stitches in my mouth. Thats how I come to love the Yorkie breed! For one I opted not to have a bigger dog, (yes I have a Husky and she is bigger, but I have had her since she was a pup, I think that helps, but you still never know what a dog can do.) I started having bad nightmares about the attack and I used the Yorkie to help me deal with them and ease the pain, I was so gong hoe on getting one, thats all I could think about! I drank, ate and slept Yorkies!!!!
So I have these attacks and I feel like a big truck is sitting on my chest and my heart will race so fast! I get numbness in my hands, I will get very cold and start to shake and have really bad dry mouth. At first I thought I was having a heart attack and actually wound up in the hospital, only to find out I was fine and i was dealing with anxiety.
I'm not on any medication but I have thought about counceling. I guess I don't trust doctors and medication scares me with all the side effects. So here I'am to deal with all this. I was doing so well until Kloey left me and they all came back. I mostly get them in the evening when it starts getting dark. My head will just run wild and it wont shut up. OK now you all probably think I'm a whack job!
I'm not, I'm really normal lol I just have this issue and I don't know how to deal with it. Until you have these attacks, it's hard to explain. I could sure use some advice, if anyone else has delt with this, I sure would like to know I'm not alone.

I truely commend you for not taking medication. For these kinds of issues most medication is addictive and if I would have had a choice I would have never taken any. Try the counselling before the meds. If that doesn't work then maybe you will have to consider it. I had no choice as my crap was just draining me I lost my apetite, felt like dying because no doctor fund anything wrong and I knew all the stuff I was feeling and going through on a daily basis. Yes, we are perfectly normal people its just some events in our life have triggered this issue and messed with the levels of Seratonin and Gaba in our brains. These are chemicals in charge of calming or alerting our state of being.