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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Heyjoe4" data-source="post: 1094942" data-attributes="member: 13032">Thanks for the kind words V.  I wasn't afraid to admit or talk about my panic attack and ensuing depression.  My problem was 1) my parents' lack of understanding for what I was going through and 2) same parents and Dr whose best message to me at age 19 and suffering from panic attacks/depression was "It's time for you to grow up and paddle your own canoe."This is actually what our "family Dr" told me, word for word.  It made me that much more depressed. In retrospect, it was 1972 and very little was known about the mechanism(s) behind depression.  I felt much better later in life when I realized this and was able to, posthumously, forgive my parents and our Dr.  They didn't understand my condition any better than I did.....But depression or other problems with mental health should be talked about.  I imagine it takes great courage to ask for such help, in part because panic attacks and depression are so hard to explain to another person.  But if anyone reading this is suffering these symptoms - please, please, please talk to your Dr and family about it.  There is no rooom for shame here, only healing.</blockquote>

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