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Message: [QUOTE="Hey Adrien!, post: 4319081, member: 5787"] Glad you've been feeling better! I started noticing anxiety/panic symptoms towards the end of college but my peak occurred after a rough month-long trip to the Philippines where I showed symptoms very similar to what you shared. Some days, going to the mall or even the grocery store would cause major panic attacks. That was the longest I was consecutively in therapy (about a year) with lots of stuff from my childhood having to work through me. Never took medication, but talk therapy was amazing for me just hearing things out from a very objective point of view. A major win was that I faced my fear of long-term intimacy (my parents having a mostly amicable divorce when I was 11 really had some long-term effects on me) and ended up marrying the women I was dating while I was going through therapy (we'll celebrate our seven year anniversary this summer). I meditate every day, try to eat well, exercise and just try to think/live more mindfully to be a generally happy and good person. Generally, I need to be more OK with stretching my comfort zone and this DC trip is a good example of that. I'm a pretty adaptable person. In general, once I'm exposed to something and, like most people who live with anxiety, I show almost no physical signs when I deal with it. The general affect most people perceive of me is pretty low-key and calm, my wife calls "golden lab vibes", even when I'm working through stuff. Wow, that was more than I planned on writing, but thanks for allowed space for some catharsis. [/QUOTE]

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