Coping with Panic Attacks

Message Megan directIn this episode of Unbuckle Your Fears, lived experience speaker and advisor Megan Barrow, shares Part 2 on her recent panic attack in relation to hormones (estrogen) and peri-menopause, and reflects on how hormones has affected her anxiety and panic disorder.For more information, head to https://www.unbuckleyourfears.com/Follow on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/unbuckleyourfears/Connect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/meganebarrow/If you have any feedback, topic ideas or questions, email [email protected] this episode causes any distress, please reach out to your local 24/7 crisis support line. In Australia that's Lifeline 13 11 14 or Beyondblue on 1300 22 4636. 

Message Megan directIn this episode of Unbuckle Your Fears, lived experience speaker and advisor Megan Barrow, shares her experience of having a panic attack last week, and reflects on how she didn't cope, what she "did wrong", but ultimately got back on track - and how that's her reality of agoraphobia & panic disorder recovery.For more information, head to https://www.unbuckleyourfears.com/Follow on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/unbuckleyourfears/Connect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/meganebarrow/If you have any feedback, topic ideas or questions, email [email protected] this episode causes any distress, please reach out to your local 24/7 crisis support line. In Australia that's Lifeline 13 11 14 or Beyondblue on 1300 22 4636. 

Message Megan directIn this episode of the Unbuckle Your Fears podcast, lived experience speaker and advisor Megan Barrow, shares her experiences of depression and how it has often correlated with anxiety & agoraphobia.Content warning: This episode discusses suicide. If it causes any distress, please reach out to your local 24/7 crisis support line. In Australia that's Lifeline 13 11 14 or Beyondblue on 1300 22 4636. If you have any feedback, topic ideas or questions, email [email protected] more information, head to https://www.unbuckleyourfears.com/Follow on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/unbuckleyourfears/Connect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/meganebarrow/The safe story telling resources mentioned can be found at https://mindframe.org.au/

Message Megan directMessage Megan direct (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2391031/fan_mail/new) In this episode of the Unbuckle Your Fears podcast, lived experience speaker and advisor Megan Barrow, shares her experiences of the differences between anxiety, panic disorder and phobic disorder.As always, she leaves you with a question for you to consider.If you have any feedback, topic ideas or questions, email [email protected] more information, head to https://www.unbuckleyourfears.com/Follow on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/unbuckleyourfears/Connect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/meganebarrow/

Message Megan directIn this episode of Unbuckle Your Fears, lived experience speaker and advisor Megan Barrow, shares why having a panic attack and feeling anxious or panicky are not failures and do not mean you are taking a step backwards in your wellbeing or "recovery".As always, she leaves you with a question for you to consider.If you have any feedback, topic ideas or questions, email [email protected] more information, head to https://www.unbuckleyourfears.com/Follow on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/unbuckleyourfears/Connect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/meganebarrow/

Message Megan directIn this episode of Unbuckle Your Fears, lived experience speaker and advisor Megan Barrow, how agoraphobia and what she learned in recovery taught her to push through fear and do tough things in every day life.Megan shares her tips and the strategies she uses today to do things like start her own business, public speaking, appear on TV and radio, and finish Tough Mudder.Ultimately, she shares that without having been through agoraphobia and the lessons from her recovery - her greatest and most difficult achievement - she would not be living the extraordinary life and purpose she is today.As always, she leaves you with a question for you to consider.If you have any feedback, topic ideas or questions, email [email protected] more information, head to https://www.unbuckleyourfears.com/Follow on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/unbuckleyourfears/

Message Megan directIn this episode of Unbuckle Your Fears, lived experience speaker and advisor Megan Barrow, shares Part 2 of her story of Agoraphobia Recovery from working but living within safety areas and behaviours and ultimate freedom. Please note a content warning that Megan briefly discusses suicide.Megan shares a ~20 year period that follows from her returning to employed work and living independently, but still living within the definition of agoraphobia. Her story highlights the rollercoaster nature of mental ill-health "recovery" and that with treatment of her clinical depression in 1998, she ultimately found the path to real freedom from panic and phobic responses, and how to push through her fears.As always, she leaves you with a question for you to consider.If you have any feedback, topic ideas or questions, email [email protected] more information, head to https://www.unbuckleyourfears.com/Follow on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/unbuckleyourfears/

Message Megan directIn this episode of Unbuckle Your Fears, lived experience speaker and advisor Megan Barrow, shares her story of Agoraphobia Recovery, focusing on the period of housebound to returning to independent work.She revisits where she was at in her agoraphobia, what she'd tried to recover, finding the right mental health specialist, their treatment plan of medication, CBT (Cognitive Behaviour Therapy) and exposure therapy, and then starting work again.She also explains how she thought she was recovered from agoraphobia when she was working and living independently, but she still had phobia avoidance behaviour. In part two she will cover the next stage of her "recovery".The episode concludes with a question for you to consider.The book mentioned is "An End to Panic: Breakthrough Techniques for Overcoming Panic Disorder" by Elke Zuercher-White.If you have any feedback, topic ideas or questions, email [email protected] more information, head to https://www.unbuckleyourfears.com/Follow on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/unbuckleyourfears/

Message Megan directIn Episode 2 of Unbuckle Your Fears, Megan Barrow talks about coping strategies for panic attacks.She discusses some of the theory shared across socials and how some are not helpful, kind or compassionate, along with what her psychiatrist first taught her about getting through panic attacks.She also shares real life examples of how she coped through panic attacks and sets herself for success in workplace meetings, public transport, hospital and concerts. If you have any feedback, topic ideas or questions, email [email protected] more information, head to https://www.unbuckleyourfears.com/Follow on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/unbuckleyourfears/

Message Megan directIn this first episode of Unbuckle Your Fears, Melbourne based Megan Barrow shares her lived experience of anxiety, agoraphobia, panic disorder, panic attacks, depression, suicide & PTSD through to thiving with mental wellness.She also shares how important it is for those with mental ill health to not just define themselves by their health and challenges you on how you would (or want to) describe yourself.If you have any feedback, topic ideas or questions, email [email protected] more information, head to https://www.unbuckleyourfears.com/Follow on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/unbuckleyourfears/