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Recieved: 1999/07/21 11:45
Subject: [K-list] A reply pre-crash to Panic Attacks
From: Mrstoast

In a message dated 7/18/99 5:51:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
breadcastersATnospamhotmail.com writes:

<< I believe that panic attacks are caused by repressed childhood trauma,
not biochemical imbalance. >>

This diagnosis may be true for you and others, but I promise you
wholeheartedly that puberty was a biological stimulus to my panic disorder
(among other stimuli). Birth control pills aggravated it severely.
Pregnancy drove it thru the roof, culminating in agoraphobia. And the wild
hormonal ride of labor & childbirth wiped the biological aspect clean in me.
I did not associate hormones w/the panic attacks til after it was all over.
I have no repressed memories of childhood traumas - I remember them all, tho
none could be classifiable as severe. Truly, I cannot believe that any
aspect of can be completely denied - physical, mental, or spiritual.

<<When we come to know that we are safe and at home in the universe, and are
loved just as we are, the panic will disappear.>>

This is simplistic, not a solution unto itself. Rather, after the panic
disappears does one becomes free to realize they are (and have always been)
safe.

<< They came on suddenly in 1981, just after the birth of my son . . .>>

Frankly, I suspect your first anxiety attack could have been partially a
result of the shifting seas of hormones postpartum.

Of course, I'm speaking of what I know, and that is clinically diagnosed
Panic Disorder, which has as a typical determining factor of extended anxiety
symptoms. Extended as in years.

I'm sorry if I'm a bit snippy about this, but I felt that your summation
dismissed too many years of suffering, struggle and learning on my end - 15
to be exact. Not that I feel that is what you intended! It just smacked me
as the old familiar "Just straighten up and think right and it will go away"
school.

Kind Regards,
Melissa

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