(05-15-2015, 05:14 PM)Zyrusticae Wrote: Wow, I had no idea it could kick in that late in someone's life. That sounds incredibly rough. I can scarcely imagine what it's like to be relatively normal one day and suddenly be experiencing crippling anxiety the next.
You have all of my sympathy. It's good that you're improving, and I'm certainly hoping to improve myself, such that maybe I'll finally, one day, be able to buckle up and find work that wasn't granted to me by sheer nepotism. I hope you can get over those humps as well. It's damn rough out there even without the disorder holding you back.
Trust me, it was pretty surprising to me too XD. My family and friends had no idea what was wrong with me, but from 24-25 I slowly went from no anxiety at all to panic ridden all the time. When I went to see a psychiatrist he wasn't THAT surprised and knew what it was immediately. I have other mental illnesses as well, so that's probably why it wasn't surprising to him. Panic disorder was never one of them till later in life.
However, I consider it a blessing. I know what it's like before panic disorder, so I can kind of try to work my way back there. I feel really bad for people who have had it since they were young and have a harder time at what kind of normalcy they're fighting for.
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