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suffocation recedes.
The all-encompassing
terror falls far,
far away.
I am, in fact, okay.
For the moment.
I HAVEN’T HAD
A panic attack in quite a while.
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bsp; I had my first one when I started
middle school. I really thought
I was going to die that day.
My arms and legs went all tingly.
Then my heart beat so insanely
hard, I thought it would explode,
rip my chest wide open.
No one understood what was
happening, not even the school
nurse, who called paramedics.
It took a savvy ER tech to explain
that my heart didn’t have a problem.
My messed-up brain did. Okay,
he didn’t say it was messed up.
I figured out that part myself.
Since then, there have been
other attacks. Other days when
I felt like I didn’t dare leave
my room. I’ve done my homework.
I know anxiety causes them, just
like it causes my OCD. You can find
