Does Anyone Here Get Panic Attacks?

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I have that with my mama cat, she is without a shadow of a doubt my angel. She is very intuitive and intelligent - it doesn't take much at all for her to sense that something isn't right -then she has different approaches to each emotion. She's right there with me - I really don't like going away from her at all if it can be helped - and I even think about her welfare when I'm on the road. It's love - of a very pure kind. But you know being alone is all I really know - it's almost impossible for me to formulate connections - with those I can count on one hand - it's not intense - mostly i live like a recluse as much as I can in nature where the triggers are so far less. Very infrequently do I get lonely - it's simply a life of solititude within society - my own world within theirs.

I can spend twenty minutes filling my trolley up in a supermarket when I suddenly HAVE to get outside so I just push the trolley to one side and walk out - without buying a flamin' thing ! !

Yes, I get them... and the one I had at work last week resulted in a major job situation where I was basically told not to come back. So I am now in a bad fix. I envy people who don't have panic attacks and who always appear "cool as a cucumber" even under stressful situations.

Yup, yup, I know that one. I get optical auras, or optical migraines. I can't see when I get them, only last for 20 minutes (no pain and vitamin E will stop them, in my case, but I didn't know that then.). Just to let me get those 20 minutes to get normal again caused big problems. Some stressful situations have the others running for the door, yet I'm the one not. It works the other way too. You do know you can fight that stuff, normally isn't worth it, but if they deny you unemployment, you can fight it. Doesn't cost anything, you don't need a lawyer. I have won 2 cases doing this. You set it up with the unemployment bureau.

No more Xanax in the UK? I love Xanax. I don't take it often but I keep in nearby. When I get phobic, I tell myself that if it gets too bad, I'll take Xanax. Chances are I'll calm down just because I know that the Xanax is there.

When I had surgery, they kept offering me pain pills. It took a long time for them to understand that I can cope with the pain I didn't want pain pills. The emotions associiated with pain can bother me so all I wanted as Xanax.

When someone comes up behind me
When I can't see (but i'm not scared of the dark =/)
When someone i don't know talks to me
When i become the centre of attention
When i think about something i don't want to do but have to. Thinking about it tends to be scarier than the thing itself

Not being able to control a situation, feeling utterly helpless, overwhelmed, flooded and frozen.

And then the panic sets in - doom, dread, dying, annihilation of the self......

Is there anyway to cure this?

There are a lot of different therapy's, mileage may vary.
I stay away from the triggers and when I know I have to, I do a little helper.