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IM FREAKING SCREAMING OH MY GOD.
I havenโt drawn my favorite boy(s?) in a while
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โ Eremin is canon,โ I say into the mic.
The crowd boos. I begin to walk off in shame, when a voice speaks and commands silence from the room.
"Heโs right,โ they say. I look for the owner of the voice. There in the 5th row, Hajime Isayama himself
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โDude, whyโre you here?โ He smiled feverishly. Beneath all of his curls and that blatant coffee addiction was a dude who didnโt seem all that bad. He certainly was cute to Alfredโs standards. Maybe even hot.
โYour friend . . . the blonde one? He let me in,โ the boyโs dimpled cheeks turned upwards into a sheepishly embarrassed smile that pointed towards the marbled floor.
It was heartwarmingly adorable.
I donโt know if some people just experience panic attacks way different from the way I do, but a lot of writers seem to write panic attacks as thought they read a list of symptoms and just picked some to go with. Here are things for writing panic attacks:
- I always, always notice when a panic attack is starting. The panic is usually a pretty good indicator of it. Why do all of your charaters end up mid-panic attack before they notice the panic attack is happening?
- Panic attacks should include at least 80% more thinking than theyโre usually written as including. The thoughts can/should be disjointed, incoherent, and repetitive. The reader should feel like the character is panicking instead of having to be told that theyโre panicking.
- Panic attack symptoms donโt abruptly disappear when the main panic attack stops. A person isnโt automatically fine 30 seconds after finishing having a panic attack.
- There are varying degrees of panic attacks.
- Go with symptoms beyondย โcanโt breathe and feeling like Iโm going to dieโ.
- Please.
- Look up some other symptoms. Include the shittier ones like irritability, screaming at people, etc.
- Itโs hard to be coherent during a severe panic attack. A bizarre number of characters will stand there goingย โI canโt breatheโ as though theyโre vaguely having an allergic reaction. Give me characters apologizing four hundred times in a row. Give me characters who canโt complete a sentence. Give me characters who canโt say anything.
- If you have to tell the reader the character is panicking, itโs not a well-written panic attack.
- Bystanders almost never react as well in real life as they do in stories.
- A lot of people (me included) donโt like to be touched during panic attacks. Every character in stories seems to react well to a hug. Give me characters frantically shoving someone away. Give me characters who canโt manage to tell the other person to get off of them because they canโt get the words out.
- The experience of having a panic attack can be exceedingly embarrassing. People will do a lot to hide them.
- Stop pretending friendship is the cure for panic attacks. It can certainly help, and having people who are there for you is exceedingly important, but a friend/lover existing doesnโt make a panic attack magically go away.
There are a lot of different symptoms to panic attacksโand I always know when one is coming on unless I wake up in one.
Some signs before the big drop:
Sweating. I sweat excessively. My palms especially turn into slick pools of icky liquid.
I shake like a leaf skittering in the wind. Just. Tremble.
My heart goes double-time.
I get irritable. I snap at people sometimes.
My throat tightens like someone is choking me.
My throughts focus in on the fact that Iโm about to panic and I get fidgety. I try to leave and go to someplace where I can be alone. A really common place? A bathroom.
But I still try to lessen the attack. I take preventive measures.
During the anxiety attack:
I breathe. In fact, I breathe too much. I hyperventilate. Sometimes I black out.
Sometimes, I cry. When I do, itโs gross. Itโs not pretty in the slightest. Iโm panicked, Iโm freaking out. Itโs not just a few sad tears.
When I donโt cry, I clench up. Just. Ball of fear. I press my hands to my fluttering heart and panic some more.
I think dumb stuff. Heart attack? Kidney stones? Have to escape through a window?
I also try to calm my breathing. I count and list things. Itโs not all panic, although thatโs a lot of it.
Afterwards:
Iโm still a mess. My eyes are red-rimmed. Iโm flushed, shaking, sweaty.
Sometimes (often times), I end up having another panic/anxiety attack afterwards. It may take a while, but the stress is still there and it builds up.
I need alone time too.
So hereโs so stuff for those writing panic/anxiety attacks! Itโs different for everyone, but here are some of my personal experiences.
From my experiences, my panic attacks are very sudden. It usually takes me, at most, two minutes to enter a full-blown panic attack.
It usually starts off in the area between my lungs and my stomach before moving upwards.
My symptoms include:
- Using my hands to clutch at my hair before alternating to cover my ears
- Squeezing my eyes shut as quick as possible
- If standing up, I sit down or run into a corner to look away from people. If already sitting down, my cover my face by lifting my knees and huddling into a ball
- My chest is often compressed/tightened and I find myself making choking sounds
- I scream if prompted by others trying to talk to me
- I sob and cry like thereโs no tomorrow
- I GET SORE EASILY โ my arms and lower back usually become incredibly sore within ten to twenty seconds from TENSING MY MUSCLES because I always clutch at things like my life depends on it
- My panic attacks, depending on severity, usually last from five to ten minutes
- Afterwards, I usually refuse to speak to people for the rest of the day
- Iโm still horribly anxious and sometimes I vomit
Please do your research when writing about panic attacks. Theyโre so much more overwhelming and destroying than people make them out to be.
As a frequent panic attack โpatientโ (no idea what to call myself), I find myself feeling horribly embarrassed about every having a panic attack. It eats away at my pride immediately.
I wanna be out but like I donโt want to come out I just want to magically already be out
I cant relate more to this than i already am
THINGS WHICH MAKE WRITERS ANXIOUS:
- not writing
- writing
- people reading their stories
- people not reading their stories