everyone trust me COPD is a breathing disease BUT BECAUSE OF THIS IT creates anxiety in out minds and selves and ALSO DEPRESSION so if your kids who know everything and are young and healthy they can never understand the pain of both of this crap on top of the crap we have already No.1 love your kids BUT ignore their attitude to anxiety No.2 and ignore EVERYONE'S attitude towards you depression ONLY WE CAN WALK IN OUR SHOES AND WE DO NOT HAVE TO BE PRAISED BY ALL we are all in this together when I look out the window of my CONDO or driving and people are walking our street to the main street I say in my mind" you have no idea how lucky you are" and God I so wish I could do that but I can't so God please bless me and ALL OF COPD TEAMS we are the best!!!!!

Yes but I had them before copd and my dr has them under control the main thing is calm your panic episode down and slow down your breathing I know that's hard to do when you are in a panic but you must concentrate on slow deep breaths in and out. It will lesson your attack

I don't think anyone I've ever known would consider me a mean person, but I will admit to occasionally thinking bad thoughts about doctors who refuse to help patients in distress because of some prejudice having nothing to do with the individual patient. When I first suffered panic attacks, my primary doctor (who had known me before COPD clobbered me) prescribed Xanax and the pulmonary doc objected, proclaiming it "addictive." The respiratory therapists in pulmonary rehab agreed and referred me to a counselor who prescribed several different medications that promptly converted my mental functions to something only Goldilocks might value -- "just right" as porridge -- in other words, mush-for brains. For me, Xanax was best for short-term support, and eventually I learned what I needed to get through most of them on my own. I never got "addicted," never increased my usage, but on the increasingly rare times I find the pressure building, it's helpful to know I've got the pill if I need it -- and then I don't need it.

We are all different! It helps to hear everybody else's stories, but never believe if one's perfect solution doesn't work for you that all hope is lost. Keep looking for relief and you will find it, and when you learn the difference between breathing problems caused by COPD and those caused by anxiety, you'll end up with a whole bunch of extra "good days" you didn't expect.

that is so true as i was reading this tears where coming down my face

i have panic attacks taking a shower ihave to get out of bathroom fast because i stop breathing and that is with ox