Reply #48: I had my first panic attack about a couple weeks after 9/11

[Nikia]

I didn't know what was going on. It felt like a medical emergency so I went to the emergency room. As we were leaving, the nurse said that a lot more people had been coming in with panic attacks since then. I may have been predisposed to anxiety and a couple other changes were going on in my life then too. When people realize that they might not have a future though, I think that it is a normal response to get anxious or depressed, as many people did.