She felt like she was going to literally blow up. These attacks didn't seem to be associated with anything she was doing. They came on her at all times of the day and night. She literally felt like she was going crazy.
She talked to her family physician about these symptoms and he gave her a prescription to help lesson the attacks. He also recommended she see a therapist as he was sure these symptoms were related to the events of her life. Katie, like 918kiss Register so many of us, thought she could control her symptoms by herself and just wanted the drugs to help. She did not think she needed a therapist.
Moving ahead 12 months in Katie's life you find she is divorced from husband number 1 and has been married to another man, who she believes will not hurt her and her children like her first husband did, for 3 months. She thinks life is good and her panic symptoms have gone away. She had been right about the therapist. She just needed the drugs to help her get control of herself. See she had gone through a divorce, found a new mate, and was doing well.
Doing well until she discovered her new husband, of 3 months, was also a gambler. How had she missed this during the courtship? Oh, sure the courtship was short only two months, but hadn't she told him everything about her old life and hadn't he promised he would never do anything to hurt her. Hadn't he even said, "I will never hurt you I love you"? How could he now be spending all of his paychecks at the local pool hall betting on the Monday night football games?
Katie was surprised when her panic attacks came back and this time they hit her like a raging bull. They were so intense they kept her from fair supplement being able to go to work. The unexplainable fear that came with these attacks made her vomit and have migraine headaches. Her marriage began to fall apart because she was not bringing in a paycheck.
Her new husband wanted to have dinner on the table when he got home from work and wanted money to pay his car loan and to put gas in his car. When Katie was not providing these he said he wanted a divorce. The divorce was final three months later.
Katie visited her family doctor again, and again he prescribed medication and again recommended she seek the help of a therapist. She took the prescription for drugs but did not seek out a therapist after all hadn't she gotten better without a therapist the first time.
This time was different though, the medication didn't work as well. She was able to resume working but the panic attacks continued to surprise her and affect her work. Her boss talked with her about receiving work supported counseling in order to keep her job. So, she had to go talk to a therapist.
She talked with the therapist about her two previous marriages and how she had just met the most wonderful man in the whole world. He had a good paying job. He told her he did not gamble and that he loved her so much for all the pain she had been through. He promised her he would never hurt her like her other husbands had and wanted her to marry him.
The therapist talked with Katie about some patterns she was seeing in how Katie went about selecting partners including: finding a new boyfriend even before the divorces were final, having very short courtships, telling the man she was dating all about the creeps she had been married to, begging the new partner not to hurt her like her old partners had, and not knowing that she was being taken advantage of until it was too late.
