Your periodic reminder that in people who have been subject to threats and punishment for having emotional responses or ‘inappropriate’ facial expressions, panic attacks look different.
They may look like the person has become calmer and less involved, dismissive, even. Some people become intensely subservient and silent. Some become catatonic.
Panic doesn’t always involve screaming, crying, and obvious signs of distress. It involves an extreme form of the person’s fear response – which can be altered by circumstance, ability, and what they’ve learnt to fear.
Which is to say, it’s not your place to decide someone isn’t having a panic attack, when they’ve told you that’s what’s happening.
Yes, absolutely this. I get quiet and withdrawn when I’m having a panic attack. A quiet panic attack is still a panic attack.
Tag: anxiety
So interwebs anxiety people. Anyone else panicking about the year being about to start and feeling kind of like you’re standing on a cliff edge and you want to make time stop or slow down but you can’t so instead you stay awake until way too late and wake up late and conversely lose time when you’re trying to save it cos you’re driving yourself crazy
Or is that just me
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