Pekka, You have come to the right place! Please feel free to roam the site at your own pace. If you look to the left of the screen under "TOOLS" you will find many supportive tests. These tests are not diagnostic tools and are not a replacement or substitute for a physician's advice. The purpose of these tests is to prepare you with information that you can present to your physician. When you're finished the test, you can either print your Final Report or email it directly to your doctor. We also have developed a Panic Program. This program is 12-weeks and involves the tools mentioned above. Each session is based on the previous session, so we strongly advise that you work slowly through the program and not jump ahead. If you have any question or concerns with our €œTOOLS€, you can contact us at support@paniccenter.net. We are the Support Specialist for The Panic Center and are open to any questions or concerns you may have. Our online support group is very knowledgeable, supportive, and always very helpful. Thnak you for sharing your story with us today. We hope you try our "Panic Program". this may help with your entry into the civil service. Good luck and keep posting, Josie

Hmm, can't one edit ones' posts? I noticed I had word wrap on in notepad writing that - and the linebreaks are all wacky. Sorry about that. [IMG]http://www.astudios.org/2003/newsmileys_light/laugh.gif[/IMG]

First, [b]thank you[/b] for this site! Can't believe I hadn't found it and registered before. I've been having problems for years, some days are better - some worse. I'm 24 years old and live in Helsinki, [url=http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/facteng.html]Finland[/url]. I work as a freelance webdesigner from home, which suits a panicky person like me ;). (Oh, and the design on this site is great too) Anyway, my issues in a nutshell; I feel at least a bit anxious 95% of the time I'm awake, but some situations seem to cause me to freak out. For all these years, I've been trying to find situations - patterns, physical conditions - where I start getting these "attacks", but have later noticed that I can't. It's pretty much random and I accept that. I said "attacks" instead of attacks, because I rarely [b]suddenly[/b] get anxious, it's more of a smooth gradient of anxiety for me. That's both good and bad; would it be more sudden, it'd come - and then pass, and I'd be fine after that to continue. The good part is, I often feel it coming long before, and I can adapt. Usually go to a bathroom for a minute or two to catch my breath and splash water over my face. I guess I lead a fairly normal life concidering the disorder, but there are some things that do affect the freedom of my life; I have often a huge stress over palpitations while going to bed, and that stress triggers the **** palpitations. I often need to take a sleeping pill, or a small amount of alcohol to relax my system. I know alcohol isn't a good "medicine" for it, but until I get some real medication - I'll do anything to sleep. Another thing is traveling. I haven't been able to travel (I've been to Estonia, our neighbour to the south - get there by boat in an hour or two) in years. I can't even imagine stepping into an airplane. It sucks, because I'd really like to travel - well, who wouldn't? One day I'll do that though, we'll see when. ------- I haven't known it was panic disorder per se I had, until a year or two back. It was one huge relief when I found explanations on the internet, and it matched my stuff perfectly! I wasn't alone! There is something with a name! I'm not just crazy! etc etc. Not knowing this, made me analyze