anxiety attack

My heart is in throbbing tone

My hands are as cold as stone

 

Sleepless, I become restless

Shortness of air, I become breathless

Controlling emotions seems helpless

An emotional distress

 

In the realization of my hyperventilation

I get dizzy and sleepy

My mind is on overdrive worry

 

Voices have strained my mind

And the Echoes have drained my body

Into a slumpy Winnie.

 

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Author's Note

You’ll never know the feeling unless you’ve experienced it. Knowing it is part of healing it - a knowledge about it makes you aware on how to handle it when it attacks... at least that's what i know...

I had experienced it twice that i lost control of my emotions...
anxiety attack and panic attack have alot in common...
in symptoms they have lots in common...

Reviews

[Devanshu Rajput]

Really we wont get how you feel unless we experience your that hard time. In our life often a time comes when we get trap into a situation from which we can not escape anymore. We become frustrated and are prone to this type of attacks. you narrated precisely.

I really hope for the best of yours.

[Corset]

You've described this feeling so perfectly Pax. So many of us suffer these kinds of attacks, Groceries and dept. stores bring this out in me, so many times I've had to leave a restaurant because the walls were advancing on me, can't stand anyone but my lover or family inside my aura, can feel them and if they are being snide or smirky or false (is that a word?) or mean minded, I will practically want to claw my way free

[Androglossia]

What I said to a friend on here, we are human, saddled with the baggage of our human frailty. We feel, we wail, we blame, we go crazy. At the end of the day, it is your reasoning that matters. You are your own powerful tool. This write is very relatable and is good for the masses.

[asdarkeyesclose]

'Controlling emotions seems helpless'

fascinating, that we are trying to control the feelings but they are just simply too overwhelming. i think i have had attacks like this but not realised that they were panic attacks. the picture accompanying your words has a lot of impact, like a time bomb waiting to go off, so many contradictions that the mind can't keep pace. your words are full of insight into this condition, facing it bravely, learning from it, trying to understand. fantastic.

[John]

The poem through the visual and the words gives a very useful insight into what it must be like to experience a panic attack.

[emmajoy]

A terribly sad way to be, perhaps writing has helped to exorcise the stress, the near terror of it. From what i recall, as absolute a silence you can find might help. A sitting in a place so beautiful, so calm that you can hear your mind slowing down, sighing, resting .. coming to terms with the fact that life is controllable, if you allow it. Dear friend, be sure, you can be helped or help yourself.. don't let the terrors continue. Please. You've written very concisely and emotionally, a courageous write in fact.

[Mariya]

The plummeting sensation growing so severe and terrifying that you need to drain yourself of all the energy you have before it subsides - you captured it. Good write.

[An owl on the moon]

I know there can be such an overwhelming fear when emotions flood over the mind uncontrolled... several close to me have attacks... minds undone... hearts racing... near blinded to the world racing by... Your words give anxiety's fire a voice we can understand... and hope for relief.

[Shep]

So this my every day life. Good pome.

[Frieda P]

You've captured it Pax, that out of control, out of your body, feeling that won't let your head think normally...had these after my sister died, I can empathize with you on this one....

[Cascara (aka Sprint Goe..]

Great poem...it's realistic and believable...especially with regards to social anxiety, I could relate to this poem so much.