Attack Alert

Posted on April 22, 2007 by L
Filed Under The Life |

I can safely say that I am now 100% familiar with the experience of a panic attack. I’m sure I use this term loosely - my degree in psychology reminds me that since I did not suffer from any nausea, dizziness or parasthesias during these episodes, it was probably just an intense freak out that I shouldn’t clump with a genuine illness… but still, it is terrifying and I feel like I’m being attacked, so…

It happens when I think about the future, how I’ll wake up one day and no one will want my work and I’ll have to start learning a new skill set while tending to children and bills and other such real life things.

There is no basis for this thought process - my services have just been requested for a new project and it’s fairly early on in my career to be worrying about its end. But the sudden intense bursts of fear are not few and not far between. And I know enough people that feel the same way.

Is it something in the water?

   

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