Your mom knows a thing or two about tough love 
You should listen to her!
Attack your anxiety, or at least stand your ground. Don't let it back you into a corner. You need a defiant attitude towards it. Your actual strength is beyond what you can imagine at the moment. At the same time, you don't have to overwhelm yourself. Just make sure you're outside or at least pushing against your comfort zone a bit more every day.
Panic attacks are relatively easy to overcome in most cases. Anyone can learn how, by changing the way you think about it, respond to it, how you breathe, etc.
Dp and dissociation are what can happen when you're really emotionally overloaded, like after a bad panic attack. It can feel like hell, but as with panic attacks it can't harm you.
Your brain can be a bit dumb sometimes, but it isn't your enemy if you trust it. With panic attacks and dp, it's helpful to let go and accept the experience, not fight it. It's a bit like learning to float in water and trusting that you won't sink, rather than fearing you're about to drown and thrashing about in panic.
I recommend getting a copy of Hope and Help for Your Nerves for some valuable insight into anxiety and panic.
Sorry to hear about the trauma you went through. That's clearly something you need to work through.
If you're feeling really bad tomorrow, resolve to at least go to school and then come straight back, without the pressure of facing the 3 hours of tests. Maybe when you get there you'll feel a little better and decide to attend.
Walk if that's more comfortable and is practical. The exercise and fresh air from a long walk will help. But if you're afraid of having a panic attack in the middle of nowhere, I guess the car is the best option!
In case you decide to try staying for a while, ask your mom to let the school know you might need to leave in a hurry.
Don't completely avoid the situation or you're teaching yourself to be even more afraid, and sooner or later you'll have to confront everything. The sooner you do it, the fewer the negative consequences you will have to deal with later!
You should listen to her!Attack your anxiety, or at least stand your ground. Don't let it back you into a corner. You need a defiant attitude towards it. Your actual strength is beyond what you can imagine at the moment. At the same time, you don't have to overwhelm yourself. Just make sure you're outside or at least pushing against your comfort zone a bit more every day.
Panic attacks are relatively easy to overcome in most cases. Anyone can learn how, by changing the way you think about it, respond to it, how you breathe, etc.
Dp and dissociation are what can happen when you're really emotionally overloaded, like after a bad panic attack. It can feel like hell, but as with panic attacks it can't harm you.
Your brain can be a bit dumb sometimes, but it isn't your enemy if you trust it. With panic attacks and dp, it's helpful to let go and accept the experience, not fight it. It's a bit like learning to float in water and trusting that you won't sink, rather than fearing you're about to drown and thrashing about in panic.
I recommend getting a copy of Hope and Help for Your Nerves for some valuable insight into anxiety and panic.
Sorry to hear about the trauma you went through. That's clearly something you need to work through.
If you're feeling really bad tomorrow, resolve to at least go to school and then come straight back, without the pressure of facing the 3 hours of tests. Maybe when you get there you'll feel a little better and decide to attend.
Walk if that's more comfortable and is practical. The exercise and fresh air from a long walk will help. But if you're afraid of having a panic attack in the middle of nowhere, I guess the car is the best option!
In case you decide to try staying for a while, ask your mom to let the school know you might need to leave in a hurry.
Don't completely avoid the situation or you're teaching yourself to be even more afraid, and sooner or later you'll have to confront everything. The sooner you do it, the fewer the negative consequences you will have to deal with later!
i want my life back. i'm 15 and am homeschooled as of 2 years ago. the dp episodes started happening a couple months ago. i don't feel real, i can't hear (can't really anyways because i'm half deaf but still), i recognize nothing, it's so terrifying. i never leave the house either. there was a good week like last month where i was good and i went to places with my mom, it was great, but then another episode hit. i was back to the bed, in the house. the most recent episode was in a car around easter and now i'm terrified to get in a car. i've been in a car since then. the first was to go to a doctors appointment that my mom said if i didn't go to she would call the cops to take me to a mental hospital.
