Anxiety attacks aren’t always hyperventilating and rocking back and forth

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Anxiety attacks can take different forms, such as:

• Unpredictable bouts of rage or irritability
• Nit-pickiness (obsessive behavior, which may be a part of OCD), and even a hypersensitivity to disarray, chaos, or any sort of change
• Fast-talking, stuttering, stumbling over words
• Not talking at all
• Sitting rigid, staring into space, almost seeming “zoned out”

Understanding the way our or other’s anxiety works can help to decrease the stigma and help to calm a person faster and get them out of that state. These are just a few, but it gives an idea of the range in which attacks can come.

Can we say this again for the people in the back?!

Mine occasionally make me itch all over. I’ve scratched myself so badly that I’ve drawn blood. It is embarrassing and makes me feel totally lost inside of the mental illness.
There was nothing in the world more comforting then when the dr that diagnosed my panic disorder told me that it was a normal symptom.

I know the itching so well! Also the rage and irritability! And the person who was causing it blamed it on my horrible character and anxiety was just bullshit to her anyway..