I had my first panic attack on an airplane 2 years ago. I thought it was just a mixture of being hungover/ tired / and having the flight attendant tell me I couldn't get out of my seat unless i wanted the plane to go back of the line. we were waiting ot take off.

in a matter of seconds all i could think of were worries – was everyone looking at me, was everyone going to be mad if i got up, what if i can't get off this plane, i don't have any control over my situation.. ended up having shortness of breath, getting really hot and very emotional. i got through it and the rest of the plane okay.

This anxiety morphed into what i thought was specific to planes – the idea that the time i'm on a plane is out of my control stresses me out. i can't get off of the plane if i want to and the i'm afraid if i have a panic attack everyone on the plane will think i'm crazy or even that my friends will find out and think less of me.

more recently this anxiety has spread to having "trapped" worries when in a car, public bus or on a boat. This week I even had an definite increase in anxiety at the dentist because when they wanted to numb me for a filling i had anxiety that the drug was out of my control, i couldn't get the numb feeling to end if i wanted to.

i'm scraed that my anxious situations are spreading, and have a good amount of stress just being fearful of having another panic attack. I'm not sure if i should look into medication or just talk to a therapist. I would really like some solutions with dealing with this because i want to do something about it now instead of ahving this hinder my life. I missed a girls weekend because i didn't want to travel there. I don't want it to ahve contol,i feel like i'm missing out on my best years.

love to hear your feedback & ideas, is it possible to ever feel 100% normal again once this has started?