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anxiety attack and panic attacks
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| magik5 |
Posted on November 15 2006 03:01 PM
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Hi i'm new here. I have always struggled in math and to hear everyones story its like they lifted it from my past. I have experienced math related anxiety ansd panic attacks. When I heard someone mention that card games set them off I thought WOW me too! I hate to feel like I'm being put on the spot and that everyone will look at me like "whats wrong with her? " I clearly remember having a job in high school where I was working as a cashier in a small shop and the register was a old one where I had to do all the math in my head. OMG I struggled with it for so long the manager was very mean about it and I would get these awful panic attacks from it. Luckily my mom helped me out she said why don't we practice with play money and it worked! It is nice to know I'm not the only one with these feelings. |
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| Countess |
Posted on November 15 2006 03:16 PM
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Hello Magik, great you found us 
Good to hear that your Mom understood your problem and helped you.
Countess
'You should really be sympathetic to people who suffer 'Normalism' (Geoff)
My Child (born 97) has Dyscalculia
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| ert |
Posted on November 16 2006 01:45 PM
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Welcome magik!  |
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| Laura |
Posted on December 02 2006 06:39 PM
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Hi i 'panic' a lot when i use to go into maths at school. It was like there was something werid going on in there. Its hard to explain it but even now numbers scare me so much at times i do panic. This problem that most of us have has just gotten better but its took me 4 years to get it to this point. Now i dont mind maths-even though i cant do it, i try not to panic or even show that i am panicing. I out music on and chill out then go back to problems i am panicing over. Easier doing it from home rather in school. THis is the worst as in school you cant just go and put music on. Instead i would before going into my class tell myself that soon i will be out of that class and in another and that if i get stuck JUST ASK-this part JUST ASK was my problem as i thought my teacher would think i wasnt paying any attention to his lesson. This wound me up even more but the main thing is that MOST teachers/lecturers/professors will be sympathetic- WELL HOPEFULLY |
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| dawn |
Posted on December 02 2006 09:43 PM
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you may at first think my suggestion is a bit potty,but I am willing to take the chance with my credibility. Hypnotherapy is excellent for anxiety disorders and for ego-strengthening (ie confidence building ) .There are no side effects. It has been proven ( by me and others who have had stuff published) that it works for anxiety related illnesses (like irritable bowel etc ). You just have to relax and listen to a tape or better still see a hypnotherapist and they give you an induction technique eg relaxing all bits of your body in turn or breathing in a colour to calm yourself and breathing out your worry-colour...then they deepen a trance by imagery eg going down down down in a department store elevator ...then they ask you to go through ego strengthening imagery eg swimming in a forest pool with magical powers full of pebbles inscribed with words like confidence,secure, relax,power , whatever you like ....or they make you imagine a time when you felt proud and successful but then embellish the whole thing with cheering crowds and being held aloft etc...then you fix that image in your subconscious and access it by squeezing your thumb and finger together and you now have a post hypnotic suggestion...whenever you feel inferior and worried eg in a maths class or at a presentation you can squeeze your thumb and finger together( no one knows you did it ) and you feel confident and secure . It is harmless and useful throughout life . Get a book out on it . I promise it will not be a waste of time . |
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| gooup |
Posted on December 13 2006 02:09 AM
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that sounds fascinating, Dawn! |
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| Meg |
Posted on January 11 2007 03:35 AM
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've just joined and its good to hear I'mnot the onl one who panics at the idea of any maths! from being in a shop waiting at the till to the complex maths in lectures!! I've stopped going to those lectures as its just a man at the front reeling of a load of gibberish and than having to work out answers on our own!! I feel stupid when I have to contiinually ask for help oin the same question and so just pretend I understand and find excuses to leave the room till the class is over!! I'm ususally end up crying in the toilets!!
So good to know I'm not the only one! (no offence!)
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| Freda |
Posted on January 11 2007 08:30 PM
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Meg, no offense would be taken here ;P Having people who can empathysize with you is great, and this forum is full of people who can. This is the place to be if you need some support or if you ever need to rant. Again, welcome. |
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| This_Calcula |
Posted on January 15 2007 10:49 AM
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Moss wrote:
Excactly. When we (ALL dyscalculics) start demanding the help we need, things will change .
I think why most of us don't ask for help is fear and I'm as guility of it as anyone else.
In school it's fear of being put in a special class or being made fun of by your peers and at work it's fear of losing your job or being passed over for advancement.
It's hard to get past that fear usually. I'm trying to myself everyday
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| This_Calcula |
Posted on January 15 2007 10:49 AM
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yeh feel same |
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| This_Calcula |
Posted on January 15 2007 10:57 AM
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Laura wrote:
Hi i 'panic' a lot when i use to go into maths at school. It was like there was something werid going on in there. Its hard to explain it but even now numbers scare me so much at times i do panic. This problem that most of us have has just gotten better but its took me 4 years to get it to this point. Now i dont mind maths-even though i cant do it, i try not to panic or even show that i am panicing. I out music on and chill out then go back to problems i am panicing over. Easier doing it from home rather in school. THis is the worst as in school you cant just go and put music on. Instead i would before going into my class tell myself that soon i will be out of that class and in another and that if i get stuck JUST ASK-this part JUST ASK was my problem as i thought my teacher would think i wasnt paying any attention to his lesson. This wound me up even more but the main thing is that MOST teachers/lecturers/professors will be sympathetic- WELL HOPEFULLY
i knew there had always been something wrong with me but realised too late what the acutal problems was, i am now at a point in my life where i cant turn nothing around and put myself in a better position socially, financially and everything else other people can just take advantage of everyday without realising that there are people out here who would give up anything just to be in the same shoes as them. i cannot go back to school and fill in the gaps in my learning i dont have the chance to do things differently now, fuck all the psychiatrists they cant help me, my whole life is like that cheese you get with the holes in it. |
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| 23or32 |
Posted on January 27 2007 05:40 AM
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Nicola wrote:
That's exactly it. I work in an IT environment where I've managed to ensure that I deal with users rather than attempt any code-work because I just can't get my head round the logic of it. So there's this fear that I'm a fraud and I'll be found out...  But if I tried to explain to my bosses, I know that there are personnel procedures in place to protect me etc, but it's the fear of being labelled.
However, I do have anxiety attacks about money, whether it's trying to sort out my finances (and not just because there are none but because I can't grasp how to DO it) so I get very very anxious when dealing with a bank, or a company I've to pay money to, etc. To the extent that after an encounter (even checking my bank balance when I know there's money there) I feel very tearful and upset. Wuss, huh? 
Wow Nicola,
That fear or sense of being fraud is so on the money. When I did computer support I always tried to steer the issues through a process of logical analysis rather than always looking at driver versions etc. I was good at diagnosing issues but if I had to update things or validate data it took some time. and yeah I felt like a fraud or at the very least that I wasn't being true to the job descripton even though I know in truth I was probably working twice as hard to find a resolution to a problem.
And oh my God on the subject of dealing with money in public I could go on and on. Not being able to make correct change in front of your new girlfriend for instance. Talk about mortified.
I always try to pay my bills with even amounts of money just so it's easier to keep my balance streight! and yes I am pretty much Obsessive about my checking account.
No your definately not a wuss..
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| Guitargirl4jesus |
Posted on February 14 2007 07:00 PM
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I have panic attacks in crowds, like at a concter or a base ball game. I also have fits in traffic, even if I'm just ridding, as well as crowed elevators, or if people are all round me, touching me. Everything starts to turn greenish and I dont even see color when its happening. So I know when I'm about to flake out and strat crying like a baby, snotting all over teh place.I still do what I want to do, I walk through crowds with my arms in a circle. Sometimes I have to do it when I come off stage dependeing on where we are playing out at. I wasnt sure if that a typlical trait related to dyslexics and dyscalics. I also have a brain freeze at registars sometimes. My kids help me out, but I sure look stupid!!
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| Cassandra |
Posted on March 24 2007 04:42 PM
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I tend to act in haste and make several mistakes during the times I am being rushed with numbers. What happens afterwards is anything but pretty. When i step away and find myself alone after that break down and confusion.. I tend to just let it all out on a wall and scream and cry like a child. It's rather frustraiting.
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| Tina |
Posted on March 26 2007 12:26 AM
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I know what you're talking about. I haven't had one attack in a long time since I'm terrified of exposing myself to such "dangerous sitiations", but after it happens I can't even remeber what I did... my brain just goes blank, running on empty. The number anxiety and the anticipation of such situation just get the best of me.
"I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it." ~ Jonathan Winters |
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| StephAnnie |
Posted on April 13 2007 01:19 AM
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I fear so much just to even enter math class but most of all I fear when the teachers says "Alright im picking someone to do this problem"
I panic soo much I think the kid across the corner could hear me mumbling "please don't pick me please don't pick me"
It's rough hah.. |
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| Laura |
Posted on April 13 2007 08:59 AM
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I know its like they know that you are petrified but they still persist in picking you to answer the questions. Why not pick on someone else, someone who hasn't got the fear. |
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| gg |
Posted on May 10 2007 04:28 PM
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It seems a tremendous loss to an employer of a person who has great talent in their area of expertise, but falls down on the administrative aspects of the job.
This is why assistants were created. A gifted sales person, for example, is an asset to the company. Why have this person spend time on things which could be assigned to another person, no doubt working at a lower wage? There are administrators and there are creators.
I think back to some old news reporters I remember. These people had terrible spelling, and sometimes the grammar to go along with it. However, they had an uncanny ability to get the story, largely due to persistence and a gift in talking to people. They were never in any danger of losing their jobs. Why? Fixing the sentences was done by editors. The editors had a gift for the written word. The reporters had a gift for people. Rarely did a reporter come along with equal ease in both areas. Problem solved. |
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| apple1 |
Posted on May 23 2007 05:51 AM
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Hi Group,
I can def identify with you. I have dyscalulicus and i am also dyslexic so I have the best of both worlds! I have found that as I have gotten older my dyslexia is hardly noticable. But that now it seems that dyscalicus is even more noticable.
I am almost finished with my Physical therapist degree and I am in the middle of taking Kinesiology which is he physics of muscles. I know that before the class I am filled with aniety because it is so conceptual.
I try to explain to people why I dont like the class but they just dont seem to understand why I would get so worked up by a class. I go over the content before class. But the teacher usually does not follow the syllabus. I dont think people really understand what it feels like when you are really trying to understand something and it just doesnt come. And everyone around you picks it up so easily! It is so frustrating and its no wonder that we all suffer from anxiety!!
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| eoffg |
Posted on May 23 2007 06:03 AM
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Hi Sarah and Welcome to the Forum ,
Good to hear that you have nearly finished your Physical Therapy degree.
One thing that you might find helpful, is the topic on the discussion page:
Different Ways of Thinking and Learning.
Which might explain the difficulty that you have with the teacher?
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