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I was doing ERP for panic disorder which did not help and was researching other modalities that might be helpful and some research points to EMDR as helpful. Has anyone had success with this reducing or eliminating panic attacks as well as rumination around having another?

It’s all I think about and I’m unable to go out at night after having multiple severe, hour long panic attacks in the evening and I just want my life back.

Meds, therapy, books?

Changed my meds and had a panic attack after three weeks of none. Feeling super defeated. I changed my meds and I thought they were working but this just scared me all over again. I also vomited for the first time from panic. Does this mean my meds are wrong? What does progresss from this disease really look like?

Looking for anyone who’s done this to share their experience.

I started taking it and haven’t had a panic attack in a week and I’m wondering if it’s the med or just luck.

Do you think this is at all related? Last week I had 5 panic attacks. I started birth control on Sunday and haven’t had any since.

Does anyone else use IFS, EMDR or brain spotting for panic disorder and had success? I feel I’ve gotten what I can from ERP and my mom doesn’t want to pay for it anymore either because I’m still having so many panic attacks.

I’ve been seeking ERP for panic disorder for four months with mixed results. I’ve had weeks where I’ve been fine and weeks where I have five days in a row of struggle but daily I’ve had intense fear of panic attacks. I’m bothered because my therapist herself told me she recovered from panic disorder just with medication but has never suggested to me until yesterday that medication is an effective way to manage panic disorder.

I came to reddit and google yesterday asking about this and everyone is recovering from this from seemingly SSRIs and SSNIs, both of which I’m not on. Have I been suffering needlessly? I have an emergency appt with my psychiatrist tomorrow to discuss Effexor which has a 90% response rate for panic disorder.

I’ve been paying for months of weekly, sometimes twice weekly therapy when it seems this could have been fixed earlier on with meds and I’m so pissed off. Am I attributing too much to meds? Do I still even need a therapist for this? I do still have avoidant behaviors but I hope they go away with Effexor.

Which one did you take and how long did it take until you started seeing improvements in your panic disorder? I was just suggested today to start on an SSRI and I can’t believe nobody suggested that to me before.

I’ve been having panic attacks since around the time I started taking latuda and I get them about once a week now and wondering if there’s a correlation.

Around the time I started it, about six months ago, I started having panic and chronic panic attacks and I’m wondering if this med is the culprit. Does anyone have any experience with this?

My therapist was using interoceptive exposures with me which seemed to help a little, but now my symptoms are too difficult to recreate (jaw tension, muscle tension) and she has me doing imaginal exposures where I listen to a recording of myself describing myself having a panic attack over and over again. I guess the idea is that I habituate to it?

This sounds really hard to me and I’m scared to listen to myself describing a panic attack over and over again. Has anyone done this?

I was recently diagnosed with PCOS. I also have really bad night time anxiety and have been getting panic attacks in the evening once it gets dark. I’m not on birth control, I’m supposed to have my hormones checked and am waiting for the results but I’ve heard that’s an imperfect science.

Does anyone have any experience with PCOS and nighttime anxiety/panic and what’s worked?

I’m so disappointed that this happened. I’m going through a huge transition in my life and I’m thinking this is why this is coming up but I’m still so terrified to keep having them. Has anyone had this? Any advice on maintaining an ok mindset through these back slides?

I don’t know whether this is a panic attack (I do get them) or something else. I get extreme muscle tension, my jaw locks, I shake sometimes, sometimes sweating. I’m more so curious about the muscle tension because I don’t see that as a talked about symptom and it’s the most stressful one for me especially in the jaw because I can’t talk.

I’m so disappointed. I know this is because of an upcoming big change in my life but I feel myself regressing behaviorally and mentally because I’m so scared again. Any advice on how to bounce back from this? I thought I was beyond this.

I’m going to be starting Spravato on the 8th. In addition to depression, i have panic disorder and am very on edge every evening for fear of having a panic attack. I want to calm this association i have with night time with Spravato. Does anyone think this will work? How should i do it? What are strategies to go into spravato with to rewire this fear?

Every night when it gets dark, i sit so on edge, scared of an attack despite not having one for a while. I don’t know how to mitigate my anxiety once it gets dark so i can just live. These thoughts take me out of my day because i live each day in fear of the evening time and fear of a panic attack.

How do i get rid of the fear of a panic attack? How can i just sit with myself in the evening?

I don’t even feel that afraid of panic attacks and they don’t even happen to me that often, but still the anticipatory anxiety kills me so I guess I am still fearful of panic attacks? How do I get over this? What kind of therapy helps?