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Anxiety can significantly impact daily life, but with the right techniques, managing it can become a more achievable goal. Many individuals seek mental health services in Lutherville-Timonium, Maryland, where they can access a range of strategies to alleviate anxiety. Techniques such as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), mindfulness, and relaxation exercises are often recommended.
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hey btw if you're in the USA at 2:20 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Oct. 4, they're testing the emergency broadcast system. your phone is probably going to make a really loud noise, even if it's on silent. there's a backup date on the 11th if they need to postpone it.
if you're not in a safe situation and have an extra phone, you should turn that phone completely off beforehand.
additionally, if you're like me, and are easily startled; i recommend treating it like a party. have a countdown or something. be surrounded by your loved ones. take the actions you personally need to take to make yourself safe.
i have already seen mockery towards any person who feels nervous about this. for the record, it completely, completely valid to have "emergency broadcast sounds" be an anxiety trigger. do not let other people make fun of you for that. emergency sounds are legitimately engineered to make us take action; those of us with high levels of anxiety and/or neurodivergence are already pre-disposed to have a Bad Time. sometimes it is best to acknowledge that the situation will be triggering for some, and to prepare for that; rather than just saying "well that's stupid, it's just a test."
"loud scary sound time" isn't like, my favorite thing, but we can at least try to prevent some additional anxiety by preparing for it. maybe get yourself a cake? noise cancelling headphones? the new hozier album? whatever helps. love u, hope you're okay. we are gonna ride it out together.
#watching ppl go from being like ''support neurodivergent ppl~~!"#to being like ''if this is going to give u a panic attack ur fuckken stupid''#like..... gets me#yeah man. i know im going to be triggered by it . in the old fashioned term. it is GOING to give me a panic attack. it's pretty much certai#and i shouldn't have to tell u about what i have survived for you to be okay with that.#you can just trust that i ALSO don't want me to react to it. i'm not gonna be having a FUN time.#dismissing that bc you think it's stupid.... like is the whole problem.#these sounds are workshopped by entire teams of people to get you to pay attention and move quickly.#they arent meant to be fun and exciting.#OBVIOUSLY it's gonna set ppl off.#but yeah there's something so fuckken demeaning about ppl being like. well that trigger isn't valid bc u haven't undergone X#dude i have ptsd bc i was abused as a child. like plain and simple. the fact im 30 and afraid of the dark tells you how bad it was.#i shouldn't have to ask u for permission to be mentally ill.#the reason it's a fucking disorder and not a fucking choice is that I DO NOT CONTROL IT.#like how is it any different from when ppl are like ''oh public speaking isn't that scary'' like FOR YOU#for YOU this isn't scary. now if i could fucking eat my own amygdala...
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Identity Fraud
Hunting
Part 6
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Danny was having a good day. He had aced a presentation, turned in an essay early, and got a bunch of lab work done. Plus he was excited to hear about Elle's day! She had been so excited to go to that museum, he's sure she'd be bursting to tell him about-
She wasn't at the school. No one was at the school. Why wasn't anyone at the school?? What had he missed? Danny immediately checked his phone to find a call from the school and a voice mail. "Due to unforeseen events, the 5th grade field trip is cancelled for the day. All children will be brought home accompanied by a Gotham PD officer to insure safety. We at Gotham Academy-" Danny hung up before the voice mail could finish. Elle was possibly with a cop at their apartment, someone who could definitely turn them in. He needed to get to his sister, he needed to make sure she was alright. He needs to protect his little sister. Danny's core burned as he rushed back to his apartment to find nothing. Danny panicked, had they already taken her? Had Danny failed to protect her so soon?
She was still close
His core was buzzing as much as his ears were ringing. Danny went Ghost, he wasn't supposed to here, even if Gotham was full of ecto-energy and its own ghost as soon as he transformed he was trackable but Elle was so much more important than that. Plus they were likely already compromised. They'd have to hide again, maybe leave this country this time. He'll have Tucker and technus erase their identities here and make a new one wherever they land.
As Danny's thoughts spiral he went invisible and intangible fading through the building he knew Elle was in floor by floor, room by room. He needed to find her- He needed to find her. He needed to protect her.
Danny did find her. He found her dying on a couch from fucking Blood blossom poisoning. He found her surrounded by vigilantes and some muscular guy. A guy who had definitely died before. That didn't matter, he needed to focus on Elle. Danny dropped the Intangibility and invisibility as he crouched down in front of Elle gently placing a hand on her little face causing her to whine. Danny was enraged as the vigilantes immediately jumped and tried to restrain him. Unfortunately for them they had died before, unfortunately for them he was the king of the realms. Fortunately for Danny they had to listen to his commands. Danny stood up as the two vigilantes readied to attack along with the muscular man. The muscular man would be the easiest to control, giving him more energy to help Elle. Danny made eye contact with the muscular man, as soon as he did the man's eyes glowed green. Danny then did something he hated, he gave the dead an order.
"Restrain and hold them still."
And with that the muscular man attacked the two smaller vigilantes. They yelled and cried as the muscular man attacked them but Danny had tuned them out. He had to focus on Elle. Danny held out his palms in a sort of cup as green ectoplasm formed in his hands glowing brightly as all that came from the king did. He carefully allowed the liquid to drain down Elle's throat till the blood blossom effects had faded away. Danny didn't care about the Vigilantes yelling as he picked Elle up. Before going invisible and intangible again, he looked at the muscular man who looked at him with practically empty glowing greens eyes, Danny gave yet another order.
"You may release them in t minutes. Then you are also released"
Danny and Elle then both left, he would take her to the zone to heal properly.
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Jason couldn't control himself. Jason couldn't fucking control himself. Jason was frozen, unable to move against the figure that just just appeared. As soon as that white haired.. Thing! Looked at him his vision filled with that awful green but it felt different this time. There was no uncontrollable, all consuming rage but a soft him of rage that waited for something.
Restrain and hold them still.
A voice? No a feeling maybe? broke through the buzzing, a calm voice that for some reason the pit listened to. Jason felt 2 figures in his hold, struggling to get away but unable to as he held them tight. The calm voice called again.
5 minutes
Jason held his grip as the voice counted down, as what he was holding struggled more.
4 minutes
Jason felt calm, calmer than he should have ever felt with the pit taking hold of him but for some reason.. This was so peaceful.
3 minutes
The smaller of the two he was holding had stopped struggling allowing Jason to change how he held it.
2 minutes
He began to hear the world again, barely. He could barely hear his brothers yelling at him.
1 minute
The world was slowly coming back as the green faded from his vision. Jason felt odd as he slowly let go of the brothers he was holding so firmly.
0 minutes
Jason was almost fully aware of the world around him as gently placed down his brother. His head was spinning and the world felt fuzzy. What had happened? Dick was there? Dick was slowly tapping on his arm, a soft grounding rhythm that Jason could match his breathing to. What had happened? What was going on??
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"It took Danielle, we need to go after her!" Damian got up quickly as soon as he was let go. Damian immediately began to look for how that person got in without setting off their alarms. As well as any clues of where they went. Tim was on the floor gasping for air as Steph looked after him. Whatever had made Jason restrain them made him restrain the two of them with the same amount of force. That was fine for Damian and his tiny stature but for Tim Jason was practically squeezing the life out of him till he adjusted his hold.
Duke and Cass were trying to find where the figure went and where he had taken the girl, Barbara was looking at security cameras, and Bruce in all his Batman Glory was immediately checking on all of them he was their father after all. Then came the report from the 2 of them.
Tim had hit his emergency Beacon first, then when he was being choked by his big brother in some sort of mind control haze, he just kept pressing the button hoping the others would get there before he passed out. Damian had hit his after struggling for a bit only making the grip tighter and Tim wheeze.
They both froze as they watched the figure summon Lazarus water in their hands. Then they both struggled and yelled more as it poured the water down the girl's throat. Was that why it had taken control of Jay? Did it have control over those damned pits? The figure never even addressed them just sent Jason to keep them out of the way before disappearing. That thing wasn't human. That thing was dangerous to their family. That thing was going to get the hell out of Gotham before it could possibly hurt any of Bruce's kids. He won't let that happen not again.
They'll look into this creature tonight for now Bruce needs to make sure his boys will be safe.
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Danny mostly unaware of the chaos he had just caused for the bats shoves up at the Far Frozen holding a still unconscious Elle. Frostbite began treatment of her almost immediately, but even still they'd have a few days before Elle would be stable and conscious again. Danny could cover his little sister's absence for a few days. He can cover her absence for a few days, that should be fine. It's not like they were currently being hunted for.
#dc x dp#danny phantom#dcu#batman#the robins#tim drake#dick grayson#damian wayne#jason todd#king phantom#saw a thing about danny being able to control ghost/ectoplasm because of the whole being king thing and I'd thought it'd be fun to use#the batfam is all going to have a collective panic attack because WTF
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I don't want to panic about all these small things anymore
I’m just always scared that everything will only keep getting worse. Scared that it’s and endless downward spiral leading to a lonely ending. All these small things keep reminding me of the fact that there’s nothing I have control over. A part of me still wants to control everything even though I know that’s impossible.
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Biggest piece of sekiro advice I have is that there's a training guy who will lovingly walk you through each and every combat mechanic and ability. Do not neglect him. Use his body
#genuinely though im rusty but still doing way better than prev playthroughs cuz i took the time to train w him#it really helps remember the buttons too. to keep from controller fumbling in a panic#which can mean life or death in a game as fast paced as sekiro#sekiro
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Traumatized people are often advised to 'keep it under control' and 'find a way to contain it', and I always felt it was a fault of mine, if I freak out, or panic, or have an anxiety attack, or can't stop shaking or shivering. Now that I no longer have extreme bouts of panic, I'm starting to understand how much fear, panic and pain I contain within myself every day.
If I'm in a place that makes me anxious, I stay still, I do nothing. If I'm panicking, I will modify my behavior to the point where nobody around me will be able to see and realize that I'm panicking, I will seem happy, and pleasing. If I'm experiencing intense rage or frustration, I will shut down and won't respond or interact with anyone until I figure out what is a reasonable and logical thing to do. I am containing everything, constantly. And it's only a part of what I've been containing and keeping under control, I used to contain terror every day. I am used to circumstances where I had to act normal under threat of violence, threat to my life, every single day. I had to walk around like nothing is wrong while I was dissociating so heavily I couldn't tell if the world was even real. I was blaming myself if there was a momentary lapse of control, if the panic I was containing for months leaked out of me a little. The thought of not being able to keep it down terrified me.
I blamed myself for not being able to keep mountains of fear, grief, anger and panic under a guise, which a human being is not supposed to do. Our reactions of fear, panic and rage are there in order to point out that something is deeply wrong, that we're unsafe, that our circumstances need to change and we need safety, now. Keeping that shit contained and controlled is trying to bypass human instincts, fighting against human nature, and I did that, we all did that, because it was the only thing we were ever told to do with it. We'd be punished for anything else, threatened for any other kind of response that isn't containing and keeping it down.
And now when keeping it down is no longer humanely possible, because we did it for so long we wore our entire spirits down, now we get told we need to do more of it? More of pretense that things are fine, more of guilt and shame for not managing to be a closed human container of panic and pain? We were never supposed to keep that much in. Keeping all that inside and learning to control myself taught me to be what I am right now, keeping any inconvenient emotion down only so I could break down in private, or try to keep it down indefinitely, because I don't know any other way to live anymore. Fighting against my own instincts and fawning at others is just who I am now, and it's not who I'm supposed to be. Panic is supposed to be loud and alarming, pain is supposed to be heard, people are supposed to react with offering safety and change of circumstances that led to this. Not telling the scared, pained and panicked people to 'keep it down'.
#cptsd#ptsd#trauma#panic attacks#containing panic#containing anxiety#victim shaming#abusers never get told to keep their violence and abuse under control#only we have to keep our reactions contained
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Oh I see now why Kafka knew exactly what to do about Himeko's panic attack earlier
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#my art#honkai star rail#hsr himeko#hsr kafka#kafhime#hsr stelle#hsr firefly#firefly why is your outfit so complex#i mean i guess kafka's is too but#I haven't drawn firefly's quite as much so it's harder#wah#but yeah I hc that Firefly has previously given Kafka permission to use spirit whisper to pull her outta a panic attack#like blade lets kafka use it to control his mara#and that#like blade's mara#it is probably a semi-regular occurrence#guess that's what happens when you were grown as a human weapon and thrown into an endless war against the Swarm#regular ptsd induced panic attacks
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Meant to say this yesterday, but based on what gets a reaction out of Ethan vs what doesn't, my guy must have a serious insect phobia. There are very few times he reacts to gore/creepy environmental stuff, but every time there's a bug he starts swearing out loud + audibly panicking
Well,.minus the giant bugs in the old house? But that might be the devs not wanting him to scream every time he sees a common enemy. Also at that point he has a big ole flaming container of bug spray, so...
Still, he freaks out at the cockroaches in the stew at the start, and when he crawls through the bug-infested passage of the old house.
#Mia is the spider killer in the relationship and i love that for her#like. I'm sure Ethan is still bothered by the stuff he doesn't react to#he just keeps those thoughts inside#but when it comes to bugs he can't control his panic#which i think is fair#j plays games#j plays resident evil#j plays re7#ethan winters#re7
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Sleep Paralysis.
Vaguely inspired by this unfinished fic.
#Hi-Fi Rush#HFR#Chai Hi-Fi Rush#Kale Vandelay#Macaron Hi-Fi Rush#Panic Attack#Unsettling#Jinx Draws#I do kinda wish I knew how this fic was going to end lol but it was a really interesting study of Chai's character post-everything#I think it would be interesting to talk more about the consequences of the game events??#Ranging from 'wow we really did just kill a bunch of dangerous people' to 'wow they really did perfect a mind control AI'#It's really interesting but I do also appreciate the more lighthearted energy of this game#If it were all doom and gloom I wouldn't enjoy it the way I do#But sometimes it's fun to study the more serious bits!#Anyway RIP Chai
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"Oh? You're approaching me?"
celeste memes i made a few years back lmao
#theres another where badeline says 'you could spice up our panic attacks with a harmonica'#when i first played celeste 4 years ago#i blasted straight through the main story + core + farewell#and gave up where it stops you if you dont have enough hearts#bc until that point i had never attempted any of the b or c sides#and for some reason used an old playstation controller plugged into my pc bc the controls felt ''easier''#now im starting fresh with a new save file#and relearning the game with keyboard controls!#celeste#meme#celeste game#madeline celeste#badeline celeste#soph's art
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Phoenix Wright is So Stupid Funny as a player POV character because you start off playing ace attorney thinking he's just your self insert Relatable Protag Man with an illogical haircut in a world full of crazy then as the games go on and/or you switch perspectives you slowly begin to realise he's always been just as buck wild if not a complete lunatic since day one. But in his own mind he's always just so convinced he's a Completely Regular Lawyerdude surrounded by a bunch of freaks. And I love him all the more for it. What is wrong with this man.
#with apollo athena and ryuunosuke the games immediately let you know They Are Weirdos.#given Polly’s volume control Thena somehow tripping up stairs and Runo’s wide eyed panic animation.#and we already knew edgy was a unique species of creature before even glancing in the general direction of investigations.#but with nick they drip feed you his weirdness so it takes a while to let it sink in that this guy's completely out of his mind#and before you know it you've overthrown the chief of police like it's Just Another Tuesday.#Then you replay the game and realise that he's always been Like That and just lacks any self awareness towards the fact That's Not Normal.#Honestly if anything that makes him even more relatable.#I need you all to know I’m saying this as lovingly as humanly possible.#I am not immune to the Average Guy -> Neurodivergent Weirdo (affectionate) character perception pipeline.#phoenix wright#pwaa#phoenix wright trilogy#ace attorney trilogy#ace attorney shitpost#phoenix wright ace attorney#ace attorney#ace attorney series#ace attorney posting
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Malevolent gods
Are better than none
#panic in her song lyrics era???#maybe ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#overall i think crisis actors is a pretty great song but GOD do these specific lyrics live in my head rent-free.#the idea that it's more comforting to believe the world is controlled by known malicious forces than to accept bad things just happen.#and that they're out of anyone's control.#something super relevant to today's political climate and it's expressed really well in this song.#um anyways#kirby series#void termina#hyness#dark matter kirby#francisca kirby#flamberge#zan partizanne#oh also yeah this is a real drawing version of that doodle i posted yesterday. lol#panic's favorites
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Prompt 288
Once more, Dredge Inspiration, because I am weak.
See, the Realms may be Infinite, but Amity? Definitely not. So all that energy has to go somewhere- sinks into the cracks and into the ground and air and waters in the city and around it. And then? Not only is there ambient energy, but then literal Ancients come through.
Great storms and earthquakes tearing through the already cracked and ecto-soaked ground. According to official records? Amity Park sank into a sinkhole after a series of heavy flooding after several natural disasters.
Which sure, there was a sinkhole, but they sure as fuck wouldn’t have sank if there wasn’t a damn ghost shield up thanks to the GIW. It would have taken at least several more years for most to get ecto-contaminated as much as they were, but no, let’s add a shield that prevents the ecto from leaving and instead bounces it right back into the city.
So perhaps the people start becoming a bit off. Perhaps there’s some parts of the Pit that has grown sentient, living and vicious in possessively protecting the people inside. So maybe it’s infected people, slowly dragging them farther away from humanity. So maybe the entire class can no longer be counted as human.
It’s fine. It’s okay. Everything is fine and safe and no one can get inside, even if they can’t leave. So what if they can’t recall how long the barrier has been up? So what if the people who aren’t becoming liminal are becoming sick? That’s fine, they don’t need help… right?
#Prompts#DCxDP#DPxDC#Dredge Au#Amity Park is the biggest Lazarus Pit in the world#Amity Park has very eldritch fae vibes#Less fish vibes more snake#ghost-tail vibes but people Should Not Have Those#GIW finally found out that the barrier? They no longer have control of it#The Pit Itself now does#It will let any liminals in but the GIW find any attempts torn apart and drowning like sinking ships even if they have subs#The GIW panic when they realize the ecto-contamination is Spreading & asks for assistance#liminal amity park#I mean both the people inside and Literally
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really love characters who have varied panic responses. kirk stating himself that he does not panic outright, externally, not in high-stress dangerous situations, but instead becomes tense and level like a wound string, on-guard: mostly because his role as captain necessitates that he maintain level rationality even when facing potential death as his training as 'the guy who tells you what to do when shit hits the fan' requires, but also because his childhood experiences taught him early that drowning in the desperate haziness of panic won't help you survive. especially as kirk already follows his intuition so deeply. he learned to grasp and contort the feeling. spock is the main person who represses his emotions, of course, but kirk does it to those deep-set, personal ones (this includes how he doesn't reveal anything truly personal about himself willingly 90% of the time, only what others already know/shallow anecdotes) in a much more subtle way that's really interesting to me. certified expert at avoiding the subject as long as he isnt caught out on the lie. professional bluffer.
in terms of past or parents we dont know much!!! hes known as the heart-on-his-sleeve guy!!! like yes he yells, he gets irritated, excited, hes a whirlwind of quick-thinking and plans and intuition, he goes out of his way to connect with his crew and shows it, when he puts on a little act or bluff he puts his heart into it and clearly enjoys the dramatics so much, at times he wears his heart on his sleeve, he laughs openly and is honest to spock about what he means to him, he's very sun-coded to me in a burning, passionate way, always intertwined with the stars and seeking them out, but when it comes to genuine deep-set turmoil? we dont actually know all that much about him??? hes so full of emotion and character (i love fics where spock characterises jim's mind/bond as a whirl of colour and sensations, hes a quick thinker!!! intuitive!! lively!!!) and yet its still so outwardly surface level. tarsus iv gets mentioned like twice? so especially here where kirk gets briefly jumpscared by the creature, because like:
its subtle but his eyes. his eyesss!!!!! kirk commands with his emotions but there's always some sort of level of control to it, or he transforms them into something that spurs on others or uses them to ascertain a goal: seeing unguarded fear/distress in his eyes even if its faint and brief (in this instance) makes me go insane every single time. like!!! its such a small moment!!! he isnt even panicking!!! really, he just got jumpscared!!! its insignificant!!!!!!! but seeing a two-second flash of actual, naked apprehension is just...oughhh,,,,,,,,,
oh god, and dont even get me started on the galileo seven episode where he assumes a tense level-headedness throughout the whole thing, irritated and apprehensive but not panicking, making sure he maintains intelligent rationality, even when he has to leave them behind, but when spock and the crew are confirmed safe and the bridge is occupied the camera pans to him and his eyes look like they're fucking watering and he's so achingly relieved. don't even talk to me. im. fuck.
he shows so so much but at the same time reveals so little.
#just had to write something about this because i loveeee seeing cool characters in distress. sorry but i need to see that boy PANICKING#im only on season 1 still so i dont know if there is a point where kirk openly seriously panics in the typical way#in high stress situations hes guarded but controlled#seeing him genuinely lose his nerve and start panicking would make me ouuughghgughg#like if he starts actually hyperventilating for kirk you know somethings so wronggg#but no yeah even if spock is injured or kirk is concerned about him he still shows that in the tense guarded high strung demeanor#same with spock really - his tone becomes tense and he uses jims name and its subtle but AAACKKK#i love the note of desperation being logical. that one episode is such a good exploration of spocks characer#i just think its interesting. to me it reads not only of kirks headstrong nature but also of his experience on taurus iv#not equipped for rambling#star trek tos#star trek#james kirk#jim kirk#captain kirk#kirk tos#hope this is right because im only just coming to the end of season 1 so#i love kirk so much though i cant even#hoping so so much ive interpreted him well#and that this makes sense. this is a ramble to the max.#he draws people into his orbit hes lively hes intelligent hes a burning whirl of passion and arhrthhhh
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Izzy Hands is not the kind of guy who would show up to your house on moving day with a pickup truck and three of his burliest friends and only allow you to pay him back with pizza (He is married to that guy tho. That guy being Ed) and he's not the kind of guy who would wake up in the middle of the night the minute he heard his phone ring and drive twenty-seven minutes to sit with you at the emergency vet while your cat got X-rays (He is married to that guy, though. That guy being Stede.) However Izzy Hands IS the kind of guy who, when he finds out you've been unsuccessfully trying to KonMari your house for the last three weeks, gives you a time and a day and shows up with a box of trash bags and fifteen audio books. The rules are 'You are only allowed to say the words yes and no' and he spends seven hours going methodically through every room in your house, pointing at items and saying, "What about that?" When all the trash bags are full, he rearranges your furniture. There's a manic glint in his eyes the whole time.
#Izzy Hands#OFMD#He's the freakiest little control freak#Ed is allowed ONE room in the house for his Mess to Sprawl and Izzy all but put it in his marriage vows that he would never go in there#because if he did he would Panic Clean the whd thing in a single afternoon#Stede's pretty tidy too tho not nearly so neurotic so his contributions mostly involve saying things like “Whatever you like dear!”#and using his height as an advantage to make Izzy Sit The Heck Down when he's been doing his cleaning tornado thing for too long.
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since I was a child I have always liked the Hulk due to his sadness
#the mcu will never do him right#i actually did get into the hulk around the time as a kid i started struggling w depression and panic attacks#so i related to him struggling to be understood and with his lack of control over his emotions#and the sort of 'double self' where the hulk is all uncontrolled emotion
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