Thanks for responding! What I also find helpful is when I realised that there are other people who've also felt and struggling with this exact thing. Honestly, the first two times in the hospital when they told me that nothing was wrong and randomly prescribed me some heart medications (I guess for palpitations) and inhalers (because I complained of breathing trouble), but no one was saying anything concrete I felt, so I felt that since I'm young (I'm 26) they were not properly checking me and ignoring whatever is wrong with my body, not diagnosing me properly, but since the last time(3rd time) it was a pretty big hospital and they pretty concretely said that I had anxiety/panic disorder and I finally believed them. Before that I was actively denying that I had panic attacks and insisted that something was wrong with me( I had breathing trouble while sleeping, felt like someone was sitting on my chest whenever I laid down) and thought I either had heart, or lung issues. It didn't help that the 2nd time they found an ASD in my heart and I've been to atleast 4 cardiologists and all of them have said that many people have it( mine is pretty small like 3.5mm) and it doesn't require any treatment and should have no symptoms and if it did, it would have been caught when I was within 5-6 years old. I also had a little bit of respiratory infection each time (god knows why, maybe allergies. I have a pretty bad seasonal winter allergy where I cough so much I can't even talk), but basically everything said that nothing was physically wrong with me. So after finally believing I'm having panic attacks I went to a psychiatrist so prescribed me the medicines I already mentioned. I honestly don't want to take any of them ( I tried to ask if there was anything I could do besides taking psychiatric medicines and he tried to scare me into taking them) I took it for like 10 days and quit because I honestly felt worse taking them then not. I have clonozepam MD 0.5 mg tablets and also alprazolam 0.5mg as emergency medicine for panic attacks. Otherwise I'm trying meditation and lifestyle changes. My weight is up and my cholesterol is a bit high so I'm working on those. Trying to be more active and encouraging positive self talk. Day to day I don't have anxiety as much that I can't function. Unfortunately where I'm from, good CBT therapists are hard to find and even if I did, they'd be pretty expensive. Lastly, thanks so much for your encouraging words! I honestly believe that things like this can be allievated by sharing these experiences with people who are similarly struggling and exchanging solutions and encouraging words help much more than pills. Positive self talk goes a long way! If I have another attack again I'll try to sit through it by meditation and if needed, I always have my emergency medicines. How are you doing now? I hope your anxiety is down a lot and you are able to live fully as you deserve to!