Maggie thank you so much for your encouragement and for your advice. I am going to carry around a notebook with the various phrases. That is such a good idea.congratulations on going to Disney! You are ready to tackle anything! And I believe you will. I am going to take your suggestions and hope it helps get that fearful feeling to shrink.
Thank you ashley for the suggestion to use the attack more as a tool.I am going to try and use that strategy.
Sunny thank you, I like the idea of the license plates, I really do like distractions to help calm me down so that is a good one for me to try I think. Thank you for the encouragement.
Sunny ll. You are right 3 weeks ago I couldn't drive alone even 5 minutes. I guess sometimes I forget to look back on achievement and advancement I only focus on what could happen. Congrats on breathing out the panic today! That's a huge step.
Debi, thank you for bringing up a good point. I have had good times and plenty of them. And I want to have more so I'm going to try to stick with the positives. I am here for you if you need anything.
Thank you everyone for sharing with me and reminding me that I'm not alone in this and that setbacks are normal and actually may help me deal with the panic attacks. I am going to try to stick to positives even though I still feel the overwhelming negative thoughts come creeping back.
Thank you for you support
Summer