Hi I suffer for anxiety and panic attacks, the worst time was last year in my alevel exams and Ihad to go and see a psychaitrist about it. That helped alot and during the summer I was like my old self again and couldn t be happier as I though it was all behind me. Since I started university this year I have been having panic attacks and just general periods of anxiety before assignments are due in and exams. Last week through exams I was sick every one of then, I would barely speak, and my firends said I looked like I had seen a ghost, I have been talking sleeping tablets occasionally when I m so ehausted I just need to get knocked our for one nights good sleep. The incident this week has left me pretty shaken up as I had a panic attack straigt after a running race (I felt anxious all the way down there in the car), I had to run and pretend I was being sick as I couldn t bear everyone seeing me like that as its weird. Since then I came home to my uni flat and have scratched my hands raw, it wasn t until today when one of my friends saw the slashes and scracthes and likened me to one of her friends that was also a cuter that I realised what was I was doing to myself (there are so many scars on my left hand now) Now I have been about to stop crying since, and when I do for lectures my throat feels really tight like I can t breadth, I feel like I m gripped in this massive fear of waiting for another panic attack. After my lecture at three I took a sleeping tablet so I could just sleep all afternoon that to feel like this any more, but I know this is silly and I can t carry on like that because I went through a period of social withdrawal all the way though sixth form and I was known as the weird girl who doesn t leave the library. I don t want it to get to that again as I love my sports clubs. I don t know how to stop feeling like this and to stop cutting myself before it gets any worse. Please help :) Thankyou for you time for reading this I m sure worse things have come up all the time.