About 5 hours ago I received an email and it was really nothing important, just a comment that a person had posted on a story I write online. I'm not the type who stresses too much over negative feedback but somehow as soon as I read that I felt that my whole body was shaking and it was getting worse. I'm aware that I've been under a lot of pressure lately because of being preoccupied with uni and work and personal problems, which means that a silly thing like the email simply triggered everything but I've never experienced being so lost.
First of all, my body was shaking uncontrollably and my heart was literally flipping out and all I could hear was loud ringing in my ears. Not to mention the fact that no matter how hard I tried to breathe in, it seemed like I wasn't breathing at all. I was alone at home and I really didn't know what to do, I was just sitting on the floor like that, too afraid to even move.
I managed to calm down by texting a friend asking her to "talk to me, please". I don't know how she got the hint but I tried to focus only on her texts and eventually started to feel that the whole shaking and everything else was subsiding.
However, I've been feeling so exhausted and weak ever since, plus I have a killer headache. So I was wondering if what I experienced was a panic attack or was it something else? I really don't know much about panic attacks, which makes me a bit worried, however I do think that what happened wasn't just a regular thing.
Do you have any ideas of what it might've been, or maybe suggestions of what I should do in case (hopefully not) it happens again?
