Hyperventilation Quotes

I have a really embarrassing reaction to horror films. I break out in a fever.

I'd managed to bite a very large hole in the side of my tongue before they could pry my teeth apart. By all evidence, and there's no denying it, that thing I had on the set was a fit.

It Was Once Suggested to Me that, as an Antidote to Crying, I Put My Head in a Paper Bag.

I have a fear of heights that borders on mania.

Anyone who's suffered from panic attacks knows how frightening they are.

When I had my first panic attack, I believed that it was a heart attack.

I tried to remember how to exhale. I had to look away before it came back to me.

I literally pass out when I see blood.

I have a major phobia of height and water.

I think I'm prone to panic.

Hovering near panic, trying to focus but finding it hard to open my eyes. My heart was pounding. I couldn’t get enough air, and I couldn’t find the desire to push her away

When there is no oxygen the muscles become acidic and we can't perform any more.

I think people can have a panic attack where your heart is racing, you get shakes and jitters. But you can also feel disconnected. You know what I mean? I can feel depressed.

I still sweat. My guts are still grinding out there. Sometimes I have enough cotton in my mouth to knit a sweater.

I have this absurd syndrome where I get these out-of-the-blue, pathetic panic attacks. It'll be in a very easy, simple scene when everything is going swimmingly, and then suddenly, bang, I'm shvitzing and can't remember my lines.

I get panic attacks in big crowds.

When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.

I have panic attacks here and there, like in the weirdest places ever, and I've learned to deal with them.

Well, unless you've suffered from panic attacks and social anxiety disorders, which is what I was diagnosed as having, it's hard to explain it. But you go on stage knowing you're actually physically going to die. You will keel over and die.

If you make people laugh too much, their blood becomes - I believe it is acidic as opposed to alkaline. It changes the oxygen level in the blood, and people are likelier to pass out at that point.

In the moments before a game starts my stomach turns around as if I had to vomit. Then I have to choke so violently until my eyes tear.

The hardest thing to write was explaining what anxiety feels like. Every time I'd try to really write about what it feels like to have an anxiety attack, I would actually have an anxiety attack. It was good material but so incredibly uncomfortable.

We'd have to suck away at oxygen canisters between songs just so that we could keep playing.

Panic. You open your mouth. Open it so wide your jaws creak. You order your lungs to draw air, NOW, you need air, need it NOW. But your airways ignore you. They collapse, tighten, squeeze, and suddenly you're breaithing through a drinking straw. Your mouth closes and your lips purse and all you can manage is a croak. Your hands wriggle and shake. Somewhere a dam has cracked open and a flood of cold sweat spills, drenches your body. You want to scream. You would if you could. Cut you have to breathe to scream. Panic.

I avoid subways like the plague because I'm claustrophobic.