I made my account just to write this in hopes anyone here who's been through the same thing can help me and tell me if this will end and if so will it happen again? Sorry if this is too long or messy, please be considerate of my state right now.

Four days ago, I started to experience the worst panic attack i've had in my life, and it has not gone away since.

Basically, I was on a bus to meet my friend for breakfast, when all of a sudden I noticed the telltale sensations before an anxiety attack, such as I was feeling distant from all the other passengers on the bus, everything felt sort of hazy or blurry, and I started to tense up and sweat. But I've never felt it this intense before. My stomach became instantly upset, everything felt blindingly hot, I couldn't breathe. I tried to calm myself with relaxing music and breathing exercises, which helped only a little, while the panic attack carried on. Meeting my friend and telling them how I felt I returned home, now a little calmer, but still very tense. I thought it was just a nasty panic attack, I've had many anxiety attacks with varying intensities over the years, but never this bad, and to my dismay, it did not pass even after coming home.

I've spoken to my therapist about this, she suggested exercises and to go to the mental health hospital's ER if I feel it getting worse. it did not get worse but did not get better either - I couldn't eat more than two bites of something before feeling sick, whatever I did manage to eat would come out in frequent and mostly fluid bowel movements - so to the mental health hospital I went.

They (as well as my therapist) said it will not last forever, and that it's a string of panic attacks one after the other rather than one big panic attack. The psychiatrist I saw prescribed me Clonex (Clonazepam) 0.5 and I returned home in the evening, feeling somewhat better and very tired. I even managed to eat something before I went to sleep.

The following morning the anxiety was back, and I had to take the Clonex. It made me sleepy and I slept for about an hour and a half before waking up, a little less anxious, and spoke with my therapist again. She again reassured me this will not last forever, but these four days have been frightening and the more time passes the harder this is to believe. And she suggested there was an emotional trigger to all of this, which I have some ideas to what that might have been, but I have barely thought about that after the attack started and it's still going on.

What is wrong with me? How do I make it stop? Will it ever stop? Is this not a panic attack but another medical condition? Please, I don't know what to do with myself. I've been bedridden and my only times of relief are when I'm asleep. Everything adds to my anxiety - others' problems, loud sounds, people talking loudly, even videos I've been watching to distract myself.

Please, anyone who's been through this, tell me it stops, and tell me it never happens again. Just imagining living the rest of my life like this adds to my anxiety tenfold. Thank you.



My medical history for context:

I have been on Sertraline/Zoloft 50mg for a few months now (after a change in medicine that caused an array of symptoms that lasted weeks, and before that I've been on Sertraline 200mg) so my body is accustomed to Sertraline. The staff at the mental health hospital recommended to go back up to 75mg of Sertraline, then back to 100mg.

I have not ingested anything unusual or taken any other medicine, except cold medicine which I've taken for two days prior to the attack (the cold is not coronavirus, I'm vaccinated and my other vaccinated family members have had this same cold), and I've taken this cold medicine before with no side effects. I've stopped taking it the night before this panic attack started.