Panic anxiety attacks thread

[Matt1]

I had my first panic attack on the 21st of December 2013. I was eating some pizza and was fairly hungover from the night before from smoking/drinking. I felt a massive jolt of painful energy in my solar plexus and tons of anxiety plus i forgot who i was and where i was for some few moments. This last for about 4 hours and left me fairly shaken for the following week out of fear of the the attack returning. During the new year i felt really drained from drinking which has never happened before, i passed out the floor for a while and had to use all of my willpower to walk else i would simply pass out. (I didn't even have a hangover during this)

I went to see the Doctor and explained what had happened, we talked about it and he did the usual tests. I agreed to stop taking drugs and drinking alcohol (6 month sober now as of June 03) I never got any medicine nor would i have wanted any.

Being lucky enough to get into meditation i had mediated every day since the start of 2013, so i was able to practice mindful breathing and listened to the mantras over and over again for hours. This helped lessen the impact of the experience.

A few years before this i had i guess what i would call a more intensive psychic attack, meeting with 4 different entities in the astral state. The nature of the contact was such that i couldn't tell real events from the lucid astral experience. It took a lot of completion to work that out. I am not sure if it was the shadow self or entities, whatever it was i was in awe and terror. I posted this experience on my old account.