Anxiety attack during classes

[lexinonomous]

Attending school regularly can be stressful. It can be especially stressful when you are attending classes on a day to day basis. From what I understand, stress can bring on anxiety, so it's no wonder I've been feeling antsy lately. Last night my body had had it with the stress and decided to give into a full blown anxiety attack.


My anxiety went crazy last night as I was sitting through lecture. It became so bad that I had to leave the room and calm myself down. The only reason I knew that I was experiencing an attack was due to my rapid heart rate. I stepped outside and everything went calm almost immediately. This is becoming a problem in my day to day life, since I am attending school five hours a day, five days a week. I can't afford to be constantly on edge in a fast pace environment.


Does anyone know of any good techniques to calm yourself without being too obvious? It's embarrassing to me when I have to step out of class regularly.

 

[Laneorexorcist]

I'm really sorry to hear about your situation, girl. I really hope that you can find the right method to cope with them.


I think that I have had only one anxiety attack on my whole life and it was during a class. I was having a really bad day and the subject that it was being touched on that class was just making everything worst and I felt such an enormous pressure on me, I just wanted to be alone, think things better and breathe for a little while, so I did it, I went to the bathroom and I calmed myself down by washing my face with cold water, that always works for me.

 

[hades_leae]

When it happens, and you knew your actions were not the cause, ask yourself why you started to panic. I used to panic in class because when a teacher called my name for anything, I was worried about having to get up, and all eyes would be on me. I started to look at everyone in the class when I first got to class, this helped me out because I felt like it would make me feel better to know who was in there with me instead of not knowing who is looking at me.


It made me really comfortable to sit in class, and being called by my teachers was OK afterwards. You could also practice counting down, and pacing your breathing and telling yourself that nothing is wrong.

 

[Corzhens]

This thread reminds me of my grade school days when one of our classmates failed to submit her homework. It was an all-girls school and the teacher was a Catholic nun who was very strict. That classmate got a round of verbal beating that she urinated right on her seat. Obviously she was dead-scared of our teacher hence the involuntary release of her bladder. In the next days that followed, we would notice that classmate who would be shivering with no reason at all. Even at lunch time, we would see her hands shaking a bit although she was trying to control it. We were in 4th grade, I think. And then when she celebrated her birthday and we were invited to her house, her mother told us that she had a nervous breakdown because of that strict teacher. They were planning to transfer our classmate to another school but the doctor advised that the patient should try to conquer her fears otherwise she would be a nervous wreck.


I'd say that facing the problem head on is a much better approach to conquer the anxiety than running away from it.

 

[kelden]

Go to school probably worsened my anxiety issues. I can't remember nothing valuable from these days, not even the education I received there. I hated school with all my guts, and even despite of achieving good grades. I was always yearning for summer vacation and stop going to that haven of awful children and bigot teachers. I don't know how I was able to endure 16 years there. College was a different matter, fortunately.

 

[It'sJaz]

I would skip school a lot because my anxiety was overwhelming before I even went there. But what helped me is to find a hobby or something to do, that keeps me from thinking about what's going to happen next. It can be a book or a mini game on your phone or listening to music, anything that doesn't stress you out. Sometimes I practiced breathing in and out which is supposed to be very calming.