My Panic Attack Solution

Long story short – I am a raccoon foster. 2 raccoons who hadn’t seen eachother for a while were fighting, and they were biting eachother sooo hard, trying to rip eachothers throats out (they are both ok)

Its like -16 here and I was running around chasing them in the dark for like 5 minutes. I was freaking out. I finally managed to get them seperated but I almost collapsed because I couldn’t breathe.

I managed to get back to the house and was GASPING for air and could barely speak. I had to drink some water and lie down. It finally went away but I was still left with some shakiness.

Now my throat is raw and I am a bit horse. My chest hurts when I breathe in and I think its because I was gasping so much – I gasped for about 5 minutes.

I was so freaked out by the raccoons trying to kill eachother that I am assuming it was a panic attack. Do you agree?

I think you panicked, but in this situation panic was an appropriate response.

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