Thank you for doing this episode! I'm sharing my personal experience with panic disorder in case it were to be helpful to someone 😊 I suffered with a LOT of anxiety from a very young age. I recall as far back as 5 years old. By grade 10 I had developed panic disorder and by grade 12 I was avoiding places I associated with not being able to escape. I don't ever recall thinking the place itself was something I needed to avoid, but more like situations that created 2 extreme feelings. 1) that I can't escape (whether in actuality like on a plane or otherwise, like while standing in a grocery store line up or sitting in a movie theatre) and 2) That no one will help me or can't help me (like if I throw up, start choking and die. A severe phobia of mine) I experienced a fair amount of childhood trauma, remembered and a lot not remembered. Well into my 30's, after experiencing a repressed memory coming up from my psyche, my Mom shared a secret she thought she'd "take to her grave" that my father had admitted to her that he sexually molested my brother and I. Upon hearing that, I suddenly recalled being about 6 or 7 years old, sitting up in bed in my basement bedroom in the middle of the night, rocking back and forth while covering my ears and humming as loudly as I could, so I wouldn't hear my Dad upstairs vomiting very loudly. Hearing the connection of Panic Disorder to Pan and the alarm call he elicits making animals flee to save themselves makes sense to me. That I couldn't "flee" that situation and no one was there to help me, my body, in its infinite wisdom albeit basic understanding, I believe pushed me to flee anything that might possibly recreate that horrific scenario. While I truly believe I would actually rather die than suffer with those panic attacks again, I am grateful to whatever process that was happening to help me remember and heal the "war" that I had already experienced, I had already gotten through and learn that the whole world and everything in it was in fact, not a war at all.
Another great episode. An idea for a future episode - the archetypal symbolism of the Titanic and the iceberg. Why are we obsessed with this event and what does it have to teach us?
This was a very insightful episode! Hearing Mr. Lee mention that even therapists experience panic symptoms is reassuring...I guess 🙃 I remember reading about a technique of physically grounding ourselves to regain a sense of security; a sort of vestige from early mammalian evolution when being elevated was our greatest danger. Maybe that's why people are asked to sit down before receiving difficult news. The goal of psychology is to help us muster the self control to try such techniques in moments of distress. Thanks for covering this topic!
My body body does stay in the state of fight or flight arousal. Diagnosed with PPPD. I'm wondering about the connection between loss of soul and continuos exposure to a person that is seemingly toxic to my reconnecting with it.
Thank you for doing this episode!
I'm sharing my personal experience with panic disorder in case it were to be helpful to someone 😊
I suffered with a LOT of anxiety from a very young age. I recall as far back as 5 years old. By grade 10 I had developed panic disorder and by grade 12 I was avoiding places I associated with not being able to escape. I don't ever recall thinking the place itself was something I needed to avoid, but more like situations that created 2 extreme feelings. 1) that I can't escape (whether in actuality like on a plane or otherwise, like while standing in a grocery store line up or sitting in a movie theatre) and 2) That no one will help me or can't help me (like if I throw up, start choking and die. A severe phobia of mine)
I experienced a fair amount of childhood trauma, remembered and a lot not remembered. Well into my 30's, after experiencing a repressed memory coming up from my psyche, my Mom shared a secret she thought she'd "take to her grave" that my father had admitted to her that he sexually molested my brother and I.
Upon hearing that, I suddenly recalled being about 6 or 7 years old, sitting up in bed in my basement bedroom in the middle of the night, rocking back and forth while covering my ears and humming as loudly as I could, so I wouldn't hear my Dad upstairs vomiting very loudly.
Hearing the connection of Panic Disorder to Pan and the alarm call he elicits making animals flee to save themselves makes sense to me. That I couldn't "flee" that situation and no one was there to help me, my body, in its infinite wisdom albeit basic understanding, I believe pushed me to flee anything that might possibly recreate that horrific scenario.
While I truly believe I would actually rather die than suffer with those panic attacks again, I am grateful to whatever process that was happening to help me remember and heal the "war" that I had already experienced, I had already gotten through and learn that the whole world and everything in it was in fact, not a war at all.
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Another great episode. An idea for a future episode - the archetypal symbolism of the Titanic and the iceberg. Why are we obsessed with this event and what does it have to teach us?
That's a great question
This was a very insightful episode! Hearing Mr. Lee mention that even therapists experience panic symptoms is reassuring...I guess 🙃 I remember reading about a technique of physically grounding ourselves to regain a sense of security; a sort of vestige from early mammalian evolution when being elevated was our greatest danger. Maybe that's why people are asked to sit down before receiving difficult news. The goal of psychology is to help us muster the self control to try such techniques in moments of distress. Thanks for covering this topic!
My body body does stay in the state of fight or flight arousal. Diagnosed with PPPD. I'm wondering about the connection between loss of soul and continuos exposure to a person that is seemingly toxic to my reconnecting with it.
...yoga and Fairy Tales? Downward Baba Yaga? I couldn't resist. ...is this thing on?
Them Fauci takes didn't age well.