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does anyone else have a super fear of storms?
i am 21 and recently have been dealing with horrible anxiety and panic and stress and when it storms i freak and dont know how to deal it could just start sprinkling and i freak and i live where it storms all the time i just wanna know if anyone else has this problem and how the heck do you deal with it?
Yes I get anxious about a lot of things (and I'm the one watching the Weather Channel for storms and tornadoes every moment possible in Michigan). But after suffering 2 cardiac events in 5 years the last one last month and being diagnosed with stress induced cardiomyopathy which means ANXIETY CAN KILL all I can do is relax and go with the flow. Our society (media) is full of so many negative things I need to relax and just take everything a day, an hour, a minute, a second at a time. And let my Higher Power help me! Hope this helps!
'Tis the season. When I was in a panic self-help group, there was one person there who had the "storm" thing and if the weather even looked like it was going to get nasty, she was in the middle of the room, behind the sofa. No kidding. Odd as it may sound at first, this helped everyone -even her.
How so? Well, while everyone HAD panic, no one other than she had it about the weather. Someone had it about driving west (but not east) believe it or not. And someone else had it about a particular bridge (and that guy was a delivery driver). My deal was about receiving communion in church, and someone else had...
...you get my drift. Everyone had SOMEthing. So, what did we do? What we did was to hold her and kiss her and let her know we would lay down our lives to take that first hit of lightning. And so, we gathered around her to protect her. And we also learned that panic IS as panic DOES. We all got better, eventually.
The teaching point here is that, while someone else's panic trigger may make no sense at all to you, in your experience, yours doesnt really fit, either, with theirs. BUT, as every true devotee of the panic arts knows, it doesn't matter: panic IS as panic DOES. That said, you DO get a tiny bit of helpful data. Should it really matter that you drive east, instead of west? Yes and no. Westbound may have more intinsic danger, such as falling rocks or cliffs. But east may be smooth sailing. And that bridge may be basically the same as any other bridge -except for the chunks of concrete falling away from the sides. And communion? But you have SINNED! And are not worthy.
The list goes on.
But, what you get out of this is the realization that the thing that freaks someone ELSE -does not freak you. And the thing that freaks YOU does not bother them. So, obviously, it is something IN YOU that makes the difference.
It is not about the weather, April. It is about YOU. Start with that -and work forward. One day, one great day, we'll walk in an April shower together. Until then, you can bet I'll cover your back. Just make sure you cover mine.
How so? Well, while everyone HAD panic, no one other than she had it about the weather. Someone had it about driving west (but not east) believe it or not. And someone else had it about a particular bridge (and that guy was a delivery driver). My deal was about receiving communion in church, and someone else had...
...you get my drift. Everyone had SOMEthing. So, what did we do? What we did was to hold her and kiss her and let her know we would lay down our lives to take that first hit of lightning. And so, we gathered around her to protect her. And we also learned that panic IS as panic DOES. We all got better, eventually.
The teaching point here is that, while someone else's panic trigger may make no sense at all to you, in your experience, yours doesnt really fit, either, with theirs. BUT, as every true devotee of the panic arts knows, it doesn't matter: panic IS as panic DOES. That said, you DO get a tiny bit of helpful data. Should it really matter that you drive east, instead of west? Yes and no. Westbound may have more intinsic danger, such as falling rocks or cliffs. But east may be smooth sailing. And that bridge may be basically the same as any other bridge -except for the chunks of concrete falling away from the sides. And communion? But you have SINNED! And are not worthy.
The list goes on.
But, what you get out of this is the realization that the thing that freaks someone ELSE -does not freak you. And the thing that freaks YOU does not bother them. So, obviously, it is something IN YOU that makes the difference.
It is not about the weather, April. It is about YOU. Start with that -and work forward. One day, one great day, we'll walk in an April shower together. Until then, you can bet I'll cover your back. Just make sure you cover mine.
I understand where you are coming from.I am very afraid of bad weather.I go to my sisters during the storms.We live in a mobile home.My kids are grown and moved away and my husband drives cross country and thinks I am crazy..he has even threatened to divorce me on several occasions.I can't help how I feel.The only place I know to go is my sisters.When bad weather approaches I get sick and my chest starts hurting.If anyone has any sugggestions please feel free to share them.
Hi! I am in the same boat as you. 3 weeks ago, I started to panic and didn't know what was happening to me. I was driving at the same time when it was pouring down with rain. I started feeling tingles in my hands and legs and pulled over and had someone call an ambulance for me. I thought I was dying. The ER told me it was a panic attack. I had felt good for the last couple weeks until Mother's Day and it was raining again....boom, another attack. Weather and driving never bothered me before and now I am scared of both. Not to mension...I am in fear of another attack. I have been on Buspar for 3 weeks. It doesn't work for about a month from what I have been told and yesterday, my Doctor prescribed me Xanax on top of the Buspar for immediate relief of an attack. It seems to work for me...but I still get anxious and jittery sometimes. Please contact me if you would like to talk. You are so not alone!
im 15 year old girl and im sufering from pannic attacks also, i cry all the time cuz im so scared, when thunder storms happen my pulse reaches 130 sumtimes or more, body goes numb , i cant breathe and it gets bad, the weather network is on all the time.! my mom gets very mad at me when its on,. my biiigesttt fear is TORNANDOES im tarrified, i live in canada it can get pretty bad sumtimes, there was a warning earlier today thats why i was on the internet looking to stop my worrying all the time, i just finished my panic attack about and hour and half ago, im trying to find sumone that can help me (please dont mind my righting im just so shakey and my spellings really bad but i dont feal like checking it because im just so sick and tired of my panicing so w.e)befor i go to school everyday i check the winds, and if there to high i dont go to school, im failing in school, my friends call me all the time , i dont go out beacuse i dont want a tornando to pop up, so im losing all my friends, i havent gone a full day of school for three months , becuz i get so anxiouse from the weather, (even when it not soposed to be stormy im scared) my life is being controled, i have been like this for about 1 year, i time i was at school i had my first panic attack i didnt know what happend, i went to the office i said i could breath they started freaking so that mad it worse they called an ambulance they called my mom, i thought i was having a heart attack, i had numb hands tingly and also my pulse was about 130, after that day i was having panic attacks about heartattacks , that controled me all last year , now sice last summer i have worried about storms. , iv tried everything, i know everthing about tornandoes how they form ect. i do alot of reasearch,
all i do everyday is sit in the basment with the blinds open so i can so wut it look like outside and have the weather network on, and my laptop on my lap searching about tornadoes, its achualy so annoying my mom always says your wasting you life, but it true, and i dont know wut to do,PLEASEE HELP ME! =(
all i do everyday is sit in the basment with the blinds open so i can so wut it look like outside and have the weather network on, and my laptop on my lap searching about tornadoes, its achualy so annoying my mom always says your wasting you life, but it true, and i dont know wut to do,PLEASEE HELP ME! =(
I am new to this site but i was looking around and well yea i am really scared of storms also i live in ohio and if there is a tornado warning for like someone in indiana i get all freaked out thinking that the storm is going to hit me. I ALWAYS have been scared of storms but it has got sooo much worse since my some was born he is now 9 months old and i am so scared that something is going to happen. My boyfriend make fun of me bcc when i know there are going to be storm coming i will watch the weather channel all day and be on the weather.com watch to see where the warnings and watches are and when they are going to be here with me. I really need some help I have thought about going to a doctor to see what they can do about it maybe some kinda meds. i dont kno im not crazy just scared really badd of all kids of storms. Just the biggest thing is Tornados though.. Well Thank you for taking your time to read my reply!!
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