Good News!!!

I talked to a counselor yesterday, who has been helping me with the scary issue of panic attacks. She isn't really my regular counselor, but she is helping me to find a regular counselor. I need to find someone to speak with regarding my exceedingly traumatic childhood.

Sometimes I relive these experiences, without even knowing what they are, because the perpetrators drug and hypnotize the kids. I feel the emotions of it. It's like I'm somewhere else, and cannot participate in real life. I don't really hallucinate, but reality drops away, as if it were a movie, and the spotlight goes out, but I am left in a dark place, with no light at all.

Only sounds, fear and feelings.

Panic attacks raise my blood pressure, but I have high blood pressure anyway.

So, the combination of these two things together can make me end up in the emergency room. A young relative is the only person who helps me, and it's difficult and stressful for him, also.

However, I have never found any but one Rx that I can take without horrible side effects. Medical folks keep telling me this particular Rx is not effective by itself. I should take a second Rx with it, they claim.

I have tried this over the years, and could not live with the result.

Recently, I tried two more new Rx's. That was about a month ago. I'm still sick and depressed from those. I told the medical folks I won't be trying anything new.

All I can do is stick with the one medication (not for long, I hope), exercise and use natural remedies.

Here is an article about one of the natural remedies, and it's a less expensive one. Otherwise, I might not be able to use it. This guys is very informative. He also has a channel on You Tube.

I am also glad that the psychologist had some good things to say about this little gizmo. I like it, and there are many people who also seem to like it, based on their reviews.

But, it's not just that they like it. They also say it works for them.

It has lowered their blood pressure.

I'm very heartened by this news. This is the first time any medical professional has ever been supportive or positive of my enthusiasm for the little gizmo.

There is science to back it up, but they don't even care about science.  They only care about their love affair with Big Pharma.

Biofeedback for High Blood Pressure?

Here is an article from the New York Times claiming the biofeedback machine, Resperate, does little long-term good

Does Big Pharma do any long-term good? Especially when the side effects are ghoulish, nightmarish and unbearable?

Here is another article, this one from the Mayo Clinic. It's not quite so cynical as the NYT.

Well, I have great hopes for this, or anything that does not involve Big Pharma's intervention.

I have to check out some local yoga classes, although I don't know if I can afford it?

Also, Tai Chi Che is supposed to be healthy for older folks. I know there are classes in that around here