Re: General discussion chat Its really difficult to control because of the delay, im not sure if you actually control it yourself, or if you send commands to the person with the controls? but they defiantly didn't do what i wanted them to do. I wanted to crush the hood.
Re: General discussion chat Jeez, you're right. I rocked it back and forth and dropped it though (imported from here) (imported from here) (imported from here)
Re: General discussion chat If you have been told it gets better when it doesnt, you would know why i say these things. Maybe you have and are just compensating for you instabillty, i dont know. I talk to other people when im like that, it helps pull me out for a day or two, then i feel like like shit again. If you dont want to hear it thats fine, but dont joke about it.
Re: General discussion chat no loop statements were allowed I should have mentioned. Also that would do 999 times. So far 2nd place is 30 lines.
Re: General discussion chat uh helpz guiz i did dis and i dunno it had shini buttonz http://i.imgur.com/LitbWYB.png http://i.imgur.com/Y8SkWfv.png http://i.imgur.com/6sHQHrc.png
Re: General discussion chat Actually, i have had many very tongue in cheek conversations about such issues with a friend of mine before, they were very interesting to have and being able to joke about it a little bit with a good friend helps way more than i would have ever expected. Even if i was about to have another panic attack (as in genuine inability to properly control muscles with cramp and breathing issues*) while doing it. Have you tried talking with the friends you do have about your issues, even if it is just skirting around the edge of the issues themselves. The biggest issue is that social interaction is pretty much key in my opinion. But that is fairly difficult to achieve under your circumstances. Its a vicious circle, but it is 100% possible to break out of. Its just that it may take time to find out how to break it. Perhaps you may find that moving out is something that will make you far happier since you wont have to deal with your parents as often, you will be able to control your life and what you do with your time/self. * I really dislike how much that issue is misunderstood by people since it is constantly used colloquially by people to mean they got a little bit scared as opposed to lying on the floor unable to move etc etc etc... [/rant]
Re: General discussion chat If I had a friend that had panic attacks like that I'd probably laugh my ass off.
Re: General discussion chat Well please make sure you phone an ambulance first, since its the most painful thing that's ever happened to me. Its definitely not fun, your heartbeat and breathing rise to a ridiculous pace meaning that your body becomes starved of oxygen, paramedics have explained to me that you end up breathing so quickly that your lungs are removing oxygen from your blood stream instead of adding it. This in turn causes cramp in every muscle in your body since they all become oxygen deprived. This is really friggin painful and means that you become unable to move. While this happens you will be very light headed since there is very little oxygen going to the brain meaning that you become completely unable to think properly. During all of this you will be shaking on the floor. Along with the cramp you will have a pins and needles sensation. Luckily i don't get heart pain but it is fairly common for peoples hearts to be beating so fast that they experience very bad heart pain leading them to believe they are having a heart attack. So if one of my friends had a panic attack i would immediately be calling an ambulance. While i like to think i would be able to help i know that there is no way i would be able to keep my calm and would probably end up joining them on the floor.
Re: General discussion chat heart pain isn't fun, would def call ambulance before anything else (wouldn't be laughing either, heart pain isn't funny in the least) (my family has a LOOOOOOOOOONG history of heart problems, so the heart pain stuff is really the only thing i could relate to)
Re: General discussion chat Oh. I had no idea it was that serious. Well then. If that did happen to a friend, I'm not sure what I would do. Knowing that, I probably would call 911, but before knowing that...I know I wouldn't be laughing because the way you described it, I'm sure I'd be able to tell that it's serious. Not sure if I would have called 911 though. Maybe. Idk. But I know I would stay calm if that happened to someone. I don't panic. Even after watching a friend fall off a cliff I stayed completely calm. I was pretty much the only person that didn't lose their shit when that happened. How would you help someone who is having a panic attack that severe? Seems like once it gets that bad they would kinda close the world out, so talking to them wouldn't help. Dump a bunch of cold water on them? idk lel
Re: General discussion chat Based on what they have done for me. Try and get them to slow their breathing down. This can be done by explaining what is happening calmly and telling the to try and adjust their breathing to match a slower pace that you will have to set yourself. If they are able to respond to that keep going for a couple minutes. After a while you may want to stand them up (while holding them a bit to keep them steady) and start walking a bit (for you that would be walking backwards slowly while they walk forwards with you facing them), this should help with trying to get blood flow to get back to normal and oxygen into their muscles. Once they seem fairly "normal" you may want to sit them down and allow them to recover a bit. This was then followed by paramedics searching to find equipment to check blood sugar levels, they found one eventually while complaining that the ambulance service is running really low on this sort of apparatus due to underfunding etc. Then from my experience the rest of that day will be the calmest day of that persons life. I had a 6 hour car journey to do after that and i just sat and listened to music for the whole journey, i have never been as relaxed in my life. It was super nice, wish i could be that relaxed more often as opposed to my more usual states. I probably wouldn't suggest a bucket of water, im pretty sure they wouldn't appreciate it. It would also likely be colder than them and then cause evaporation further cooling them down. The last thing you want is for them to also be suffering from hypothermia at the same time.
Re: General discussion chat I just got a guy banned from the Steam discs for shitposting/spamming. I am da poleece
Re: General discussion chat Panic attacks are horrible, I have had them before. Not being able to breathe and then feeling your heart going nineteen to the dozen is not nice. Its only happened a few times, but when it does I always feel like I'm dying. Also I think a bucket of water would increase the severity of a panic attack, not decrease it. Changing the subject a bit, I kind of raged at a teacher today for wanting us to mark our own homework for the umpteenth time and called him 'lazy'. He didn't take kindly to it... (I was in a bad mood before that though and the words slipped out my mouth a bit angrier than I had intended.)
Re: General discussion chat Hmm. That's kind what I figured, but wasn't sure. And the whole idea of the bucket thing is to snap them out of it. Could work. Idk. Sure it isn't pleasant to get a cold bucket of water dumped on you, but I'd say its a helluva lot better than panicking like that. Could just make the situation worse. Could send them into shock or something. Just a thought, I wouldn't actually do it unless I knew it'd help.
