freaky-does this happen in your family?

I have a family history of anxiouness. My great grandmother had it so bad she took to her bed. My grandmother had it but her coping skills hid it from what I could see. My mother has it bad enough that she has taken daily medication daily and it prevents her from doing some things like traveling, etc. I fight it with all I've got using coping skills and when it gets too uncomfortable I'll take a half or whole xannax to knock it back. My daughter has it and is developing coping skills and has tried daily medications. It has tried to limit her with traveling, etc. but she has fought her fears and won.

But here is the freaky part...me, my daughter and my mother live no where near each other. We are thousands of miles apart and we don't talk on a frequent basis yet we have episodes of all suffering with panic attacks at the same time. This just happened this past week. I had been in panic mode...just an uneasy feeling like something's not right but I'm not sure what it is. I got an email from my daughter saying she was having a panic attack, didn't know why-it had been so long since her last one. Then yesterday I go a call from my mother saying she was having a panic attack and she was so scared. I talked her down getting her to take deep breaths and then we talked about her being afraid to live alone and talked about some solutions. I got off the phone and had to take a xannax.....

I think it's a bit freaky too, lol. However you have a family history of anxiety and panic attacks, and being you are family you are in-tuned to each other, so it isn't unheard of.

When my husband died 11 years ago, we were split up (due to his drinking) at the time, but the night he died I woke up at 2:30am and just new something was wrong. Sure enough at 6am my mom came to my house because the police showed up at her house looking for me, and told me he had passed. My point being is when you are so close to someone, you just have that instinct.

well if it's not freaky whenever I feel uneasiness and panic -I can count on one of my loved ones is suffering about something and that's why I feel as I do? How comforting.

WRAS,

I think that if I am reading between the lines here...and hopefully correctly...

...that is is extra anxiety to see/hear about a loved one who is suffering as you do.

I totally get this...and really feel awful when one of my girls get anxious/panicky! :/

It it easier to go through it yourself in a way...and we know that is no small endevour!!

Hugs for you and your daughter and mom!!

S.C.