Panic attacks pounce when you least expect it
The weight of it crushing your chest
Claws ripping through your lungs
Your mind on fire of how to escape
Ravenous flames of thought consuming you.
Fight or flight
Fight or flight
But the war is going on in your own mind
There is no escaping this
You’re battling with yourself now.
Breathe. Breathe. Just breathe.
Your brain has taken that one instruction and in its panic, multiplied it. BREATHE BREATHE BREATHE.
The short sharp inhales giving you too much of what you need to just hold onto for just one second, damn it.
A tsunami of emotion
Waves of tears started crashing in
You don’t even know when
And now you’re drowning and everything is blurred
You just can’t quite grasp the air
How can you?
How was it ever possible?
You breathe without thinking
So stop thinking.
Stop thinking.
All the fear comes at once.
You’ve collapsed in now.
Everything else is heightened.
The tingles start in your hands first
Then make their way to your face.
An army marching into war.
Just when you think you’re at peace, the battle starts again.