hello I'm Charlie and welcome to
authentic mental health earlier on today
I was filming a video for you guys and
girls at home talking a bit more about
my experience with anxiety and telling
you a bit more about my life and how
anxiety has affected me throughout my
life during this film I had a panic
attack or an anxiety attack if some of
you call it that instead of a panic
attack they're pretty much both the same
thing panic attack anxiety attack
during that my attack panic attack an
anxiety attack I totally forgot the film
was rolling because it was you know I
wasn't even thinking about the video as
you will see in a minute and I'm gonna
show you exactly what happened and how
it happened so hopefully some of you at
home can see if you suffer similar to me
and also so you can see what it's like
to have a panic attack or an anxiety
attack just for your references at home
or if you're out and you have one of
these attacks you can see if it was
similar to mine and if you are actually
having a panic attack or an anxiety
attack so I'm a bit nervous about
showing you guys and girls at home I
wasn't going to show you this footage
however after thinking about it for a
couple of hours I think the footage
might actually help you guys and girls
at home so here is the footage so some
of you might know I've been suffering
from anxiety since I was 14 15 I don't
know why
yeah thing about my heart attack just
breathe just breathe man
just breathe slow it down slow it down
come on come on you know I've known
attack you to what you're not having a
heart attack
come on mate it's Frieden or me think
normally it's okay there's no need to
panic
come on mate you can do this you've done
this many times before
sure there's nothing wrong oh my pull
yourself together come on mine no no
it's that man come on just breathe
normally
so I come down
happy thought tonight happy thought so
as you can see during that episode the
panic attack anxiety attack that I had
you can see it was quite severe now the
reason why I think I had this attack was
because I was talking about my past and
my anxiety and how it affected me and it
was really starting to worry me it's
something that I didn't really want to
talk about on camera to you guys and go
I was at home however I thought the
video could be useful for you at home to
learn about me and my anxiety and why I
think I suffer from anxiety
however it's not a very nice story and
when I was thinking about it in my head
talking about it on the camera because I
was really worried about telling you at
home now during the panic attack you can
see I was breathing heavily I couldn't
control my breathing I actually thought
I was having a heart attack because I
was having really bad chest pains and
palpitations
however because I've had panic attacks
before I knew deep down inside me I
wasn't having a heart attack and I knew
deep down inside me and in my head it
was just a panic attack so as you could
see I was trying to calm myself down I
was telling myself to breathe think
happy thoughts you could also see I was
talking to myself and I was trying to
reassure myself no Charlie you're not
having a heart attack
Charlie this is just a panic attack and
I was trying to reassure myself to make
me feel less anxious less panicky and
all inside hurting and couldn't breathe
and I was doing this to try and get air
because that's that's exactly I would
have these panic attacks let's say once
a month and this is exactly what would
happen obviously this is the first time
I've ever caught it on camera but that
is usually what happens and I try and
get some air back into my system by
doing this
and I tell myself to breathe try and
breathe calmly in and out and I I'm not
sure if you could see but I had my eyes
closed and I was trying to breathe in
and breathe out let me know your
thoughts if you have similar panic
attacks or anxiety attacks that's
similar to the one that you have just
witnessed on this video let me know your
thoughts on this video and if you
thought it was Trinh G or if you thought
it was helpful or not helpful at all
I would I would love to hear your
thoughts now the only reason as I've
said at the beginning of this video I'm
showing you guys and girls this at home
because I think it could be helpful by
showing you what I do when I'm in a
panic having a panic and anxiety attack
you might be able to use what I was
doing yourself to help calm yourselves
down during an attack if you haven't
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