Posted by Declan on July 20, 2005, at 17:59:47
In reply to Dissociative Panic Attacks...different treatment?, posted by _Grant Em on July 20, 2005, at 16:20:16
Hi Grant
I don't know if the 2 different kinds of panic attack are treated differently, but my guess would be that the type that starts with dissociation would be *less* amenable to psychotherapeutic help than panic cause by an external stressor, because it is easier to identify a stressor and avoid it etc.
On the nothing to fear front, I remember something from Laing which went....'There is nothing to fear. Exactly.'
Is this the fear of becoming undone, or of falling to bits?I understand your thing is so awful, but I wonder what you think of this account of dissociation by TS Eliot, called
Hysteria
As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad drill. I was drawn in by short gasps, inhaled at each momentary recovery, lost finally in the dark caverns of her throat, bruised by the ripple of unseen muscles. An elderly waiter with trembling hands was hurriedly spreading a pink and white checked cloth over the rusty green iron table, saying: 'If the lady and gentleman wish to take their tea in the garden, if the lady and gentleman wish to take their tea in the garden...' I decided that if the shaking of her breasts could be stopped, some of the fragments of the afternoon might be collected, and I concentrated my attention with careful subtlety to this end.
I hope you like that.
I've spent a lot of my life feeling pretty strange.Declan
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