TheWaySheMoves
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Hello, my name is Aaron, I'm 18 and I live in northern Alabama. Since i was in the 6th grade I've had problems in crowds. I would get angry, and I'd feel like I had to get out no matter what. The older I got, I'd say around 10th grade it got to where at times I couldn't breath when I had these feelings. I went to the Mental Institute locally and talked to a counselor. She told me it was anxiety, and put me on Prozac 90 Milligrams. I'm only in tenth grade and I'm put on Prozac. It never really helped the problem, it just made me not care about everything else. Later on I went to the family doctor, because I was having problems sitting in a classroom without breaking out in sweats and finding it hard to breath. My family doctor put me on Lexapro. I stayed on lexapro for about 2 months, with no more real problems with my anxiety as they called it, though it was summer and school was out, so no more sitting in crowds. I had no real problems with it except being ill in crowds for the next few years. In a crowd I would just get really irritable. My senior year came at school, and suddenly I'm having these problems again. This time however, they are worse. I got my first tattoo, and passed out, which we all thought was normal given the circumstance. I then had a sort of seizure at wal mart when I got my ear pierced, and this was the third piercing. Basically I just couldn't breath, and then I lost consciousness, but my mother said that I tensed up and my eyes stayed open. I just thought I had closed my eyes, I had no idea I did that. School was terrible. Every classroom I was in where I couldn't stand up I broke out in sweats, my stomach had butterflies in it, and I'd get lightheaded. Most of my classes were easy-going. I was able to sit in the back and go to the restroom when I had a problem. One class though, it was geometry. I didn't get along with the teacher in the first place. He moved me to the front and center of the room because I couldn't keep my mouth shut in the back or the room. Every day I would have an attack there, feeling like everyone was staring at me, and then when I'd break out in sweats, I knew for sure everyone was wondering why I was sweating, and it would get worse. I spoke to the teacher, and he had no compassion. I ended up dropping out of high school because I couldn't handle these attacks everyday. I Have been out of school since last October. Since then I've had no problems until now. I was sitting on the couch the other day with my roomate and it hit me, I couldn't breath, I started sweating, and I lost consciousness, I had another one of those siezures, eyes open, muscles tense, and I had put my hand in hot soup, and burned myself, and didn't realize it until I came back. Now I have these attacks more frequently than I ever have. I'm not under stress. I'm not in crowds at any time. They come at random times of day, no certain times, they come if I eat or if I don't, and they come with or without sleep. I have no idea why they come, and i haven't recognized any patterns when they do come. If I get up and walk around, I have no problems, if I stay sitting, I pass out or have a siezure, whatever you want to call what I do. I don't have enough money to see a professional. I had no idea who to talk to, and i really need some answers, I need something, because this is terrible, I have constantly felt worse than I've ever felt every day. Every day I have an attack, and my life can't function this way. I'd appreciate any kind of help from anyone.
Thank you
Aaron
Thank you
Aaron