So it was a couple weeks ago now, and I was going to write about it right away, but I didn't. Maybe because I was trying to stay away from it. I was scared of it! You know how that goes---like if you just stay away from it maybe it will lose its power. But sometimes too, you just have to face it head on, and maybe that'll be scary but it'll probably be best in the long run. I wanted to write about this to process it better, and also cause I'm sure some of you all out there can identify. Have you had one? ...It could be that, if you've had one, you might not be reading this.  Through looking up symptoms of panic attacks after it happened, reading through the informative hand outs my doctor gave me, I ALSO learned that all that INFORMATION kind of freaked me out again. So I can understand if you don't want to read this, wherever you are now... What else I've learned is, these things don't come out of nowhere. Even though in my rational mind it seems like