Comments on: How to Write a Panic Attack https://www.writerscookbook.com/how-to-write-a-panic-attack/ Serving writers with all the ingredients they need to succeed Fri, 18 Oct 2024 15:41:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Anonymous https://www.writerscookbook.com/how-to-write-a-panic-attack/#comment-87385 Fri, 18 Oct 2024 15:41:04 +0000 http://www.writerscookbook.com/?p=3122#comment-87385 0.5

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By: Chloe https://www.writerscookbook.com/how-to-write-a-panic-attack/#comment-65963 Sat, 05 Nov 2022 04:55:12 +0000 http://www.writerscookbook.com/?p=3122#comment-65963 In reply to Gray Everett.

Is this story public? it sounds incredible, would love to read it if it is.

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By: Describe it: Fear / Panic | Descriptionary https://www.writerscookbook.com/how-to-write-a-panic-attack/#comment-65391 Thu, 28 Jul 2022 02:06:17 +0000 http://www.writerscookbook.com/?p=3122#comment-65391 […] Another writer’s resource did an article on how to write panic attacks: The Writer’s Cookbook: How to Write a Panic Attack […]

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By: J. Brown https://www.writerscookbook.com/how-to-write-a-panic-attack/#comment-65177 Sat, 18 Jun 2022 23:01:10 +0000 http://www.writerscookbook.com/?p=3122#comment-65177 A scene where the MC has a panic attack. Not sure if this is a hundred percent correct though.

His words sunk deep into my mind and I felt terror creeping it’s way up from the pit of my stomach.
I couldn’t breathe.
The man was still talking but he sounded a million miles away. I clasped at the table as the world started spinning.
Why couldn’t I breathe?
I could hear my breath coming in short frantic gasps.
What was happening?
A grey haze crept across my vision and I frantically looked around, trying to find something, anything, to pull me back to reality.
Someone else was talking. My mind registered the voice but not the words.
“Saber.”
My name. It was the female detective. She had risen from her seat and walked to stand where the man had been before. She was clasping my shoulders, shaking me.
“Saber.”
I took a deep shuddering breath and focused on her face.
“What…what happened?” I asked, my voice rough and quiet.

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By: Justin Tolman https://www.writerscookbook.com/how-to-write-a-panic-attack/#comment-65101 Tue, 07 Jun 2022 17:05:40 +0000 http://www.writerscookbook.com/?p=3122#comment-65101 I just skimmed the initial example. Far too flowery and composed. Too much fucking control.

Looking at the 3 replies following the fictional account, the reality of a panic attack becomes more clear: You are dying. You don’t feel like you’re dying you don’t think that you’re dying You are dying !

The fact that one may somehow find oneself, in another time of alternate space, back in the familiar world of flesh and granite is entirely irrelevant. Irreparably damaged, the self of sunken eyes tries to scream but retreats, having made no sound.
Falling to earth in an elevator gut sac, quivering; trembling; status denatured; a sharper nausea than i birthed of my own child. I fear what has to be vomit. Reduced to arrhythmic contraction the horrors are gut-piped back up. splintered undreamed – this uncured hambody bellies soft muscle retching – circular and serpentine gashed Death Stars too massive to hold inside rip outward. When the black hole pulled you apart, and turned your outsides in- spectral imposters hollow and dead. The race of shadow manikins radiates naught, pulls frayed rope despair to fix upon only, the absence of where life had been. Reverently alone like the seven year old church child, supine, clawing and gasping at stale air with a hangman’s noose dropped through one troup rouge like some zombie undead fetus unborn of the dormeur du val.

Perhaps a mere taste….

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By: Maple https://www.writerscookbook.com/how-to-write-a-panic-attack/#comment-64557 Mon, 18 Apr 2022 07:45:22 +0000 http://www.writerscookbook.com/?p=3122#comment-64557 Great tips. It’s almost 2am and I’m writing MCU fanfiction where a character has a panic attack. Somehow I’m not falling asleep either.

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By: Minority https://www.writerscookbook.com/how-to-write-a-panic-attack/#comment-62289 Tue, 11 Jan 2022 03:39:09 +0000 http://www.writerscookbook.com/?p=3122#comment-62289 In reply to Tee.

Okay, it’s probably too late for anything I say to help since your comment was 3 years ago, but I absolutely love your slam poetry. (If you have tips, I’d be grateful! I want to write some of my own, but I have no idea how to start)

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By: kaylee https://www.writerscookbook.com/how-to-write-a-panic-attack/#comment-60803 Sun, 19 Dec 2021 05:09:04 +0000 http://www.writerscookbook.com/?p=3122#comment-60803 Everything you mentioned hits spot on for me. I have a recurring escape tendency, where whenever I start to feel panicky, I must leave wherever I am. I normally don’t have extreme panic attacks at home, so I haven’t had the issue there, but in grocery stores, even just in the parking lot sometimes, I have to hurry to get out, and if I can’t, the panic accelerates. Also, just to share something, despite how personal it is, maybe it could inform or even help someone else, the other day after having a tiny panic attack in the car, I felt so embarrassed when I got home. Even having I was alone, and no one saw my meltdown, I felt pathetic, and in my in my own eyes, I was embarrassed. I cried a lot that afternoon, but regardless, I try not to be too hard on myself. Good luck to anyone else reading this, if you also suffer from panic attacks, I hope you will always remember you’re not alone.

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By: Anonymous https://www.writerscookbook.com/how-to-write-a-panic-attack/#comment-50053 Wed, 04 Aug 2021 15:02:30 +0000 http://www.writerscookbook.com/?p=3122#comment-50053 1

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By: Emily https://www.writerscookbook.com/how-to-write-a-panic-attack/#comment-44876 Wed, 19 May 2021 21:19:24 +0000 http://www.writerscookbook.com/?p=3122#comment-44876 In reply to Awesome Megan.

Hello! You wrote this comment 4 years ago but I wanted to tell you that this comment truly helped me out! Thank you for providing this information! Have a wonderful day and please stay safe

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By: Seema https://www.writerscookbook.com/how-to-write-a-panic-attack/#comment-43161 Tue, 06 Apr 2021 19:46:28 +0000 http://www.writerscookbook.com/?p=3122#comment-43161 In reply to Lily.

Hey Lily,

This excerpt intrigued me. If you don’t mind, I would like to read the whole story. Thanks.

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By: Jimena https://www.writerscookbook.com/how-to-write-a-panic-attack/#comment-39648 Mon, 15 Mar 2021 22:57:12 +0000 http://www.writerscookbook.com/?p=3122#comment-39648 In reply to Gray Everett.

Hi! So, I was checking out how to write a panic attack and reading how others had written it and then I came across your excerpt. I really liked it. I know it’s a long shot that you will answer me and even do what I’m about to ask, but I’d love to read the whole storyor book or whatever. If this bothers you, please feel free ignore it, but you’ve got a really good hand. Thanks!

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