Dealing with attacks at school.

In this blog, I'm not gonna beat around the bush here. It's about how I deal with Panic attacks, Tic attacks and asthma attacks at school. And it will likely sound like the most basic stuff ever. It may not. It depends who's reading it.

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This may be slightly off topic to the blog but it's important to , DIAGNOSIS IS A PRIVILEGE. A lot of people may say "well you don't have this if you don't have an official diagnosis." Diagnosis is a privilege. I have numerous mental health issues ect unofficially diagnosed but it doesn't make them any less valid. Thank you.

Okay, so. As you can tell from the first part of the blog, I deal with things such as tic attacks, panic attacks and asthma attacks. All of these are serious alone, especially dangerous for me due to stuff. But, with me, mine often combine. Panic attacks can go into a tic attack or an asthma attack due to lack of breath. Tic attacks can turn into panic attacks really quickly, escalating. And obviously, asthma attacks are extremely dangerous alone. You get the point. I hope.

But how do I deal with them at school?

From here, it will be mentioning things like lack of breath, hospitalisation, injury and such as that. This is an official trigger/content warning.

For asthma attacks, my school are supposed to have a spare inhaler for me in the office. They don't, currently. My doctor either hasn't answered my mum or they just haven't given one out yet. I know. Annoying. But, that's alright. I carry my inhaler around with me at all times, obviously. I'm on record as having severe asthma. However, it really doesn't mean it's simply sorted. Asthma attacks are life threatening for me and can result in hospitalisation if not sorted properly. They aren't a common thing, luckily, since I have a lot of things to try help my asthma. But, it doesn't mean I won't have them. No, no. It's not that simple. Again, annoying. So what actually happens when I have an asthma attack? Simple answer would be that I stop breathing. My lungs and throat just choke up and I seriously struggle to breathe. And asthma attacks aren't recognised as easy as they should be, often just seen as a loss of breath or being over dramatic. So, if there is a teacher in the room, they may not pay attention to it until it gets really serious. I will often just take my inhaler, try have water, fail because I'm stupid and apparently can't drink water when I can't breathe (honestly, who came up with that? What if I just wanna have a nice drink while I'm choking on my lack of oxygen? How rude./j). If it does begin to escalate into an attack, I ask to leave the room, often get denied and keep making a point because my teachers are stupid. You can genuinely tell they went through like no training for those situations. Smh.

But at that stage, I will end up having a parent called and if it's that bad, an ambulance. I know, how fun? There isn't much of a coping mechanism for this. But this is how my asthma attacks are dealed with. A bit crap but it is what it is.

Panic attacks. My god, PANIC ATTACKS. Would you believe they're worse at school than at home? You get all these people staring at you. It's so uncomfortable. Not to mention the fact that apparently nobody knows what a panic attack is. Or what a trigger is. When you trigger someone, you aren't making them uncomfortable, you're giving them a panic attack, more often than not. So how do I deal with these? Often, if it's me having a panic attack, it will be during break, lunch or form. Those are the most triggering times. So I go to the toilets. I don't have comfort items at school. So, I'm stuck with nothing. I often have to wait them out. I'll distract myself by reading the boring poster they put in the cubicles or by reading things people have written on the walls. I often see that someone has done something stupid, which amuses me and can somewhat help. I do bring my inhaler, but that's it. The main thing is that I distract myself, whether it's from the panic attack itself or other things happening during the panic attack.

Finally, Tic attacks. These are extremely violent. I have to go into a different area more often than not because of them, for my safety and others. I have fidgets and such to deal with them but you can't really stop a tic attack properly. And for the love of anything, don't restrain a person having a tic attack. I repeat, DO. NOT. RESTRAIN. OR. RESTRICT. A. PERSON. HAVING. A. TIC. ATTACK. It's extremely harmful. Don't do it. Sweet Jesus. I'm sorry but by doing that, you aren't helping them deal with it. If tic attack is that bad, I may need to call for help though. Because I have breathing tics, motor tics, vocal tics, dystonic tics and facial tics (probably others I haven't named idk). They are extremely painful, specifically in tic attacks. I have to keep myself distracted and away from people when these happen. It's the main way to deal with them at school. I don't have comfort items. I don't have items. Only fidgets. So, the main way to deal with them at school is distraction and trying to surpress them STILL because I'm stupid. But supressing can try avoid me getting hurt. Long term.

I never claimed this would be an amazing blog, tbh. I haven't proof read anything. I'm tired. The main point is that I can't really deal with them that well when I'm at school. And it's okay. Because you can't deal with everything. It is extremely painful, exhausting ect but that is just how my life goes, so. I hope this helped??? Please CURATORS if there is an issue with this, comment it.

Just to clarify things, I have diagnosed asthma but officially undiagnosed tourettes, depression, bipolar disorder and other disorders and such. I have been told these by a councellor, but naturally they can't officially diagnose me with paperwork and stuff.

I'm tired. That's the blog. Have a good night. Curators tell me if there is an issue. That is specifically directed at curators. Uh, be gay do crime, this has been in my drafts for over a month, maybe more idk, expect a pride month blog if my brain allows it.