Congratulations ! This is very inspiring. While I have not lost any time at work, this is a fear for me recently. I was out of work for a year (laid off and it took that long to find another job in this bad economy). I've started having panic attacks after years of not having them, and wanted to also share a work related attack. I'm working now at a retirement community. I had worried that I might have an attack in a situation I could not leave. Well, worry that I would, of course I did. I was calling bingo last week, which is taken very seriously by the residence of the retirement home. For me to get up and leave would create quite the stir - and was my fear. Low and behold, I had one... that intense feeling of body sensations, but I just kept calling the numbers, telling myself to just focus on the balls and call the numbers. My voice was a little shaky, but I did it and it the panic actually only lasted for a while. I think it's very important to congradulate ourselves on such successes. For me, I find that if I just concentrate on the task at hand, whether its a task or just paying attention closely to what someone is saying, rather then to my body sensations and racing mind, this too shall pass - one baby step and moment at a time.
