Kelly

all of a sudden my head starts to go numb and I'm like, my body's all tingly.

And then I start to hyperventilate.

And that's really how a panic attack starts for me.

Like as I'm talking about it, I can feel it happening.

So I try to... I know.

Yeah.

Because that's how the brain works.

I get it.

It's crazy.

I mean, I haven't had a panic attack in so long.

So because I'm on meds now.

Right.

But back then I was not medicated.

it was just happening um and then it was it was just the craziest thing i was i started hyperventilating and then i thought i was dying because yeah like a panic attack feels like you're just dying you're having a heart attack once i was able to stop crying which happens for like

10 to 15 minutes just doesn't stop then i like what in the world was that my my other brother was with me at the time and he was like what was that right what are you okay over there i was like i don't know what occurred and actually at that time my older brother was kind of a security for me because he was the first person i experienced a panic attack with and

I told him what was going on and he started recognizing that I was having these a whole bunch so yeah that was definitely in college days it would be I realized that alcohol was a trigger so going out and partying wasn't the best because if I

got drunk I never knew which way it was gonna go it's either gonna be a great time we're having so much fun or it's gonna turn into a panic attack at the end of the night and like sometimes it would just happen like I don't even know the trigger I just would start panicking and it would just it would it would just be a panic a full-blown panic attack

And I remember calling my brother each time those would occur too.

And he would talk me down.

Because you do need somebody to talk you out of it.