Panic Attacks and Me

By Kay Hammond

Using her own lifetime experiences, Kay Hammond has written a useful book for others with the same problem: panic attacks. In short chapters about situations a panicked person might find themselves in (such as losing keys), Hammond has provided flurries of questions a person might ask themselves, question

• Language: English
• Publisher: Global Summit House
• Release date: Nov 4, 2020
• ISBN: 9781636845913

Kay Hammond

Kay Hammond is a born and bred Texan, and has never lived anywhere but Texas. She is currently living in the Austin area. Her goal is to see all fifty of the United States. She has gotten pretty far, but she is not finished yet. She is a writer and photographer. The illustrations in the book where done by her.

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Panic Attacks and Me

Kay Hammond

Copyright © 2020 Kay Hammond.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by reviewers, who may quote brief passages in a review.

ISBN: 978-1-63684-592-0 (Paperback Edition)

ISBN: 978-1-63684-593-7 (Hardcover Edition)

ISBN: 978-1-63684-591-3 (E-book Edition)

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Phone Number: 315 288-7939 ext. 1000 or 347-901-4920

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Global Summit House

www.globalsummithouse.com

Printed in the United States of America

Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Panic Attacks

Chapter 2: Learning Disability

Chapter 3: Money Stresses

Chapter 4: Losing Support by a Move

Chapter 5: Surviving a Disaster

Chapter 6: When People Split

Chapter 7: Needing Surgery

Chapter 8: Keeping Your Health

Chapter 9: Car Care

Chapter 10: Giving to Others

Chapter 11: Finding My Way

Chapter 12: Emergencies

Chapter 13: Trips

Chapter 14: Losing Things

Chapter 15: Organization

Chapter 16: Losing a Pet

Poems

Claustrophobic

Found

Stress

Plan For Me

Dreams

Expectations Met

God Poem

For Mom

Preface

Panic attacks have affected more of us than we realize. I had not realized that was what I was experiencing until I had this story critiqued. I had what I now realize felt like panic attacks. I would crawl up on the den sofa as a child and not be able to move, as my mother would yell at me constantly. It seemed as if I could never do anything right. I could not understand what was expected o f me.

I am grateful that there were other neighbors who were not as critical of me as my mother. Eventually I would crawl off the sofa and escape to friendlier places. I have said for a long time that the lady across the street was more of a mother to me then my mother. She always had a kind ear to listen to my problems and make me feel better about myself.

My Dad was also my protector from mother. He had to pick his battles for me with her, as there were many. He was more of a teacher than she was. I could never understand what she was trying to teach me if she would even try. She was a stay-at-home mother, so she tried to come between me and Dad, by telling me he was too tired to help me. But I found out that he was always happy to help me. I am sure that it hurt their marriage trying to deal with me. I was told they had to walk on eggshells when really it was the other way around.

The problem was that I have a learning disability. And this was before learning disabilities were understood and there was help for them. While I was growing- up, I was accused of having a sin over my head. I was always told that. When I was divorced in 1990, I wanted to find out what my sin was, so I got an IQ test. I have an auditory processing problem which means that I have trouble understanding what people are saying at times, especially when they are yelling or being critical