Anxiety And Panic, by Oscar

Welcome back to my blog – after a long absence I’m happy to be back. Today I want to talk about anxiety and panic. And since 2023 started I’ve had my fair share of anxiety/panic attacks and I do believe with NVLD we are prone to these attacks… however, there was one attack that really scared me – so this happened mid-January and I woke up around half 2 in the morning and my heart was racing and I couldn’t figure out why.

I drank some water thinking maybe I wasn’t hydrated enough, but I still didn’t feel right. I got up to go to the bathroom and immediately I felt dizzy and sick – so I stumbled to the bathroom thinking I was going to be sick which I wasn’t. I then just lay on my hallway floor for around 5 to 10 minutes and my energy had just gone completely. I tried calling out for my brother but I wasn’t loud enough and didn’t have the strength to go to his room. I then went back to bed and dozed off and on for around 5 hours. I woke up in the morning feeling very heavy in the head and just so tired – I went to work the next day and it was one of the most challenging days I’ve had just simply to stay awake. I was offered to go home, but I take pride in going to work and pushing through – I’ll leave this up to you whether this was a smart decision or not. One thing that could have contributed to it as I spoke to a doctor – was I was drinking a lot of diet coke and obviously, that has sugar in it – so that likely didn’t help. I’m going to wrap up this blog here and I’ll discuss more about my anxiety and panic in my next blog.

Thank you for reading.