Someone please tell me how therapy will help w/my panic attacks?
I’m 24 and deal with panic attacks. Lately they have been occurring a couple times a week. I am dealing w/post traumatic stress from a very upsetting childhood. I have decided I will take the plunge and finally see a therapist. My husband and I are going to try to have a baby by the fall and I need to figure out how to get my attacks gone before I’m carrying a baby.
Everyone says seeking therapy helps, but I don’t understand how talking to someone will eliminate my fears. My fears are usually death. They are always involving myself dying. I’m afraid of heart attacks. So then I end up spending all day researching heart related problems, causing my attacks to intensify, until I have a full blown attack where I am curled in a ball, rocking back and forth crying. Then I’m drained for two days…
This will be the first time I have ever talked to someone professional. I do not want to take medicine b/c like I said I’m going to hopefully be trying to conceive soon.
I just don’t understand how talking can help…I would love to read what your thoughts are.

