Stomach muscles contracting, squeezing so tightly you forget to take a breath. This pattern continues at a lightning speed that cannot be measured. Before long you have forgotten to take your last ten breaths. You gasp suddenly, mouth wide open trying to draw in as much air as possible to refill your lungs. Heat washes over your body, your face flushed, like a drug you feel every blood vessel in your body open and close sending tingles from your head to the tips of your toes. This makes you start to shake and you can feel your heart shake inside you. Your heart starts skipping beats, palpitating in your chest. Is it actually moving? Is it making it's way up into your mouth? It definitely feels like it's going to come out of you somewhere. This all feels so real it has to be happening, it cannot just be your mind. But your mind feels so crazy now. Thoughts race back and forth until they all blend into one giant blur taking over your brain. You feel a sudden adrenalin rush to your legs, they are desperate to run. Anywhere. They are ready to run like an Olympic athlete to get you away from all of this. You run for your life, suddenly aware that your heart is beating again, blood is pumping back around your body giving you all the energy you need to escape. You reach the front door and run to your safe place, dropping to the floor you put your arms around your knees and hug yourself tight. It's OK now. It's OK. The fear is going.
Author notes
I chose this because I have suffered badly with panic and anxiety in the past and I wanted to try and describe what fear felt like to me, whn it all got too much and I just needed to run. I hope I did this OK!
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- You're Prescribed to Describe by heartfullofvenom.
400 points, ended July 6, 2008, 20 entries
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Comments
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this definetly describes a panic attack very well. Anyways I like your stories, I am going to bed now, but I'll keep my eyes out for you in the future. Oh, and thanks for helpong me with my assignment!
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Nice!
Wow, cool. very interesting. Yeah, I've had some panic attacks as well. They Suck.
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Awesome!
Your first line drew me in and I couldn't stop reading. I wanted to see every line, and the next and the next. You tackelled the topuc of "fear" better then anyone else probably could. I think you could have had a subtler ending,anf went a little bit further into description. But this peice as a whole was fantastic!
Good Luck!
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