Panic attack on a plane.
9-15-04
- parched mouth & throat; dry lips
- inability to speak
- like a large hand is wrapped around my torso--armpits to pelvis--slowly tightening its grip
- sweaty palms
- stiff all over; petrified
- constant loop of panicky thoughts running in head
- hot lava feeling in torso, back of neck, ears
- gritting teeth alternating w/uncontrollable jaw shivering
- shimmy shiverying of hips/thighs
- feeling that I've forgotten to breathe & then breathing too fast; shallow
- nausea; feeling like I'm going to puke
- blurry vision; spotty vision
- hyper-awareness of pulse; pounding/racing heart; pulse in neck
- flushed feeling; hot cheeks
- snowball feeling; like once it's started, there's no way to come down
- lightheadedness
- feeling off balance; vertigo; dizziness; feeling like I'm falling forward or sideways when I'm sitting still
- sounds fade; become tinny
- waves
- out of control
