u/Sk3tchyMilk

I pretended to be asleep while my roommate was having an asthma attack

I was already having issues sleeping that night, I had an iced coffee and iced tea earlier that day (did not know green tea had caffeine). But on top of that, my college roommate and her bf argue every damn night about the same thing.

"Get off snapchat", "where are you going and why", "who were you texting", etc. I think they cheat on each other, or one on the other more often, but I couldn't give a damn because its always a yelling match at like 11PM. (It's 9PM right now and that's exactly what they're doing too, right now, in this very moment.)

One night, he must've worked her up to the point she was crying on and off, and talking about how she couldn't breathe right. Next thing you know she's crying and coughing, running out the room into bathroom for water.

See, I thought her and her bf would leave to go to the ED, but no, the damn paramedics came all the way here to our suite and into the room. I had to lay **dead still,** because I didn't want to be apart of it, that had nothing to do with me so why should I get up?

Re-reading this, this sounds mean as shit, but like I said, it had nothing to do with me so yada yada, maybe you shouldn't smoke if you have asthma and continue to sleep in bed with same man with the guy you think might be cheating on you idk. And maybe you shouldn't leave food crumbs and dirty clothes in the bathroom, dirty bitch.

I'm writing this because I had to run home from my college class, I sat in the same room an hour or two before and just finished up a presentation. I was doing fine before, during and after until a friend of mine asked how I'm doing. It's a simple question, but it wasn't until minutes after I had to leave, skipping my second class because my heart was pounding and I felt like I couldn't breathe or something was stopping me from getting a full breath, a clean inhale and exhale.

Usually, I get like this after some caffeine, but I haven't had any coffee all week, maybe a soda like Pepsi, but still. I woke up feeling a bit blue, and I don't know if this is common or not, but something forced me out of my sleep, I wake up before my alarm almost every day now and it hurts somedays, like getting hit in the face with something.

I made it home, I'm in comfortable clothes and have had water and food, but I still feel weird, but it's because I can't stop thinking about how a year and a half ago, I felt this exact same way, and it lasted the whole month. I think what triggered it last time was coming in proximity an ex-friend and it freaked me out.

This time, I'm unsure what set me off, but I would really like some advice on how not to make this last an entire month again, I'm under a bit of pressure right now and the last thing I need is to feel so distraught and disoriented.