Blogs by panickers part 2

Welcome to the new Blogger publishing application, which allows me to use a nifty, colorful typeface for blog entry titles.

Now, to business. Here are some other blogs and blog entries by people talking about panic attacks, panic disorder, or anxiety:

This post on a blog called Child Wrangler 2, by Jen, "a 22 year old nanny in college," talks about a panic attack she had while trying to travel by airplane.

This is one blogger's story of his first panic attack, which occurred when he was just 12, and at a Cyndi Lauper concert with his dad and some friends.

This post, by blogger and nursing student Not Nurse Ratched, opens:

My life is in a downward-facing slant lately, largely as a result of intractable anxiety. I had no idea I had the capacity to be one of those people who are totally slain by panic attacks; had I considered the possibility, I probably would have assumed I would not be taken in by the idea that I was dying and that I would sort of blow the first one off and never have them again. That has not been the case, and I'm reduced to being a basketcase slinking around the edges of my life, constantly grabbing my wrist to see if my pulse is tachy or skipping beats (usually yes to both, propranolol notwithstanding). I had no idea what hell true anxiety problems were. They have taken over my life. I am now almost constantly petrified with terror that I will have another bad panic attack.

This is a look at anxiety and panic by Yet Another Heather, a Southern gal.

Nightlight is an intelligent, honest blog chronicling one woman's ongoing mental wrestling match with panic disorder.

From the blog Random Ramblings comes this post, which begins:

I am agoraphobic not as bad as some people I have read about, but still pretty bad. I haven’t left the house to go anywhere but church and the grocery store in months. Today I have an unavoidable appointment. I am breaking out in hives, and couldn’t sleep last night. My heart is racing and I am having a major anxiety attack. I know it’s pathetic. It’s so stupid, especially since not even seven years ago I was outgoing enough to move to a new state by myself and completely start my life over.

This is a discussion by London author Martin Millar of his agoraphobia.

Remember, you are not alone!