Support for Panic Attacks

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I was talking to my therapist about my problems with panic attacks; and I have a really small support system- my mom, my dad, and that's about it. I was wondering if anyone knew any chat rooms you could go into via MSN, yahoo or aim which I could go to and talk to people in the moment, before I was "in crisis" but if I was getting there. I need to have more people I can talk to because my parents have lives too and I don't want to bother them for every little thing.

A really good chatroom you can go to for any problems with depression/panic etc is recoveryourlife.com. Sorry its not on msn yahoo or aim, but theres always people there. In fact, I'd give you my password if I could remember it, because I only come here now.

Since so many ASDs have problems with Anxiety, maybe alex could creat a new section for that?

But in the meantime, I have no ideas. I have anxiety problems, but I don't often talk about them because they don't seem very willing to be put into "words".

And it really depends on how stressful my life is at the time, too. Right now is kind of a down time.

Or maybe even a seperate chat channel for it?

Would it be worth posting in the suggesting forum?

I definitely think so.

Best way I can describe my anxiety attacks are like sudden overloads of insecurity.
One afternoon in school I was overwhelmed that my regular teacher was leaving us about 2 hours before it was time to go home and we were going to be watched by a different teacher.
I was so overwhelmed I walked out of school and back home.

I could just about cope with the usual routine but this was like a straw that broke the camel's back so to speak.
Little things like that always had a tendency to disturb me for some reason.

I by the way am in my... 32nd hour of a nearly solid panic attack, save for time spent sleeping. I hope this fricking burns calories. It seems to have passed now. ((I don't want to explain just yet as that takes effort- but I've been having the crappiest weekend I've had in a looong time))

Now there's some optimism. Actually, I think it does.

I thought you had a boyfriend, doesn't that work as part of an emotional support system?

BTW, in case you guys were wondering: The panic attack finally stopped. As far as I'm concerned the last weekend never happened.