I have been having panic attacks for a while (around 2 years) and at first thought it was just a normal thing everyone goes through(everyone has bad moments, these must be mine.. no big deal) I kind of got to know about anxiety and how some people have worse panic attacks than others and confided in a friend that I might be experiencing it. 

The thing is.. after I did tell them about it, for a while it was just as ever and we didn't get too close but I started talking to them more and told them about a lot more personal things. 

This is where the problem starts. I did bring up a lot of things I never thought I had to address in my life and was going through a lot so the frequency of my panic attacks increased and became quite bad.

My question is: if I only started to have more panic attacks after I had someone listening to what I said and supporting me through it, it might not be real and I might just be making it up to get their attention and sympathy. Am I faking it?

After a while they also had a lot come up in their life and we kind of grew apart. I do still have bad moments and times when I wish I had someone but it rarely goes as bad as when they were there for me.