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Faint

do you know how you feel when you have a panic attack?
Your minds racing through a million things
and your breathing maintains its rapid speed
your feet tingling and your hands curl up
you try to walk but alls you do is faint
well thats what i want
i want an exscuse to go away for just a moment
pretend all this isnt happening
i dont know how to deal
so bare with me if my ignorance injures you
for all i want is to float away from all i knew

panic attacks are awful :(

panic attacks are awful :(

i know... haha had a few-

i know... haha had a few- have you..probably or you wouldnt have commented on there awfulness
"happiness shines in a cirle of ponies"..words to live by!

yeah, i had one basically

yeah, i had one basically every day for like 2 months straight. it was like the whole 4th quarter of last year. it was awful. but now im in therapy and i havent had one since school got out last year! so thats a plus :)

yay! mine aren;t that bad i

yay! mine aren;t that bad i hav medicine if i start to panic- the only reason i panic is because i have bad asthma so i got sick and couldnt ask for help and i got confused and loopy and dizzy and it scared me cus i didnt know what was going on and people were laughing and i tried to walk myself to the nurse cus i couldnt breathe but i fainted on the way ended up wit sum ambulances- well not ambulances but on 2 dif occasions in the matter of 3days-

theyre no fu lets hope 4 duh best- no panic attacks this year! "happiness shines in a cirle of ponies"..words to live by!

holy crap thats scary!! for

holy crap thats scary!! for me, i was just having a really bad year. i had soo much hw and i would work so hard on everything because im a major perfectionist but then my teachers wouldnt even acknowledge that i worked hard. and no one in my class cared about school and they never did any of their work... so i would spend more and more time on all my stuff trying to impress people but they just never acknowledged it... and i never tell people about "how im feeling" so i acted like i was fine but i just wanted to scream and be like "omg why dont you notice all the effort i put in?!" so i would stay up wayy too late so i was always overtired and i couldnt eat right and my immune system was all messed up. then one day i just like lost it, i guess? i didnt faint but it was a panic attack. i couldnt stop shaking and i was sweating but freezing cold and i was all jittery but i was like dizzy and lightheaded. and my stomach just felt awful. they happened like every day from then on. it was bad... haha :)

uhh thts scarier!! mine was

uhh thts scarier!! mine was only like a 2 time deal- so far knock on wood!!

"happiness shines in a cirle of ponies"..words to live by!

anxiety comes with asthma

anxiety comes with asthma thts y mine happend- u always hav this thing hanging over yer head- is this gunna give me an asthma attack
- mine had nothing to do with school - though i was sick 4 2weeks straight couldnt do n e thing not even go outdoors to sit...
blech this year will b better though!!"happiness shines in a cirle of ponies"..words to live by!

NonSequitur's picture

I have

I have severe OCD, and when I was diagnosed three years ago, my days were one long panic attack.

Perhaps some of you have read my piece "OCD"?

I haven't had a real, full-on panic attack since eighth grade, fortunately. It sounds cliche, but things WILL get better.

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this year has been soo much

this year has been soo much better for me, like i cant even explain it. but the nurse at school thinks i might have a very minor case of ocd. i think im just a perfectionist, even though there are some "obsessions" i have, like doors and drawers and cupboards having to be completely shut all the time... idk. whats a way that id be able to tell whether or not i would have it?

writingdog's picture

I have obsessions too. I

I have obsessions too. I feel doors and stuff have to be closed and if they're not, I freak. Also, weird thoughts go in my mind. Some of it is superstitions, but now I'm starting to wonder if I have ocd.
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NonSequitur's picture

Try this test:

http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/ocdaction/index.asp?id=302

I scored 33 out of 40, and I've been diagnosed as "severe".

Of course, self-diagnostic tests are by no means the end-all. Sometimes you just know when there's something wrong with you. Do you have mantras or phrases that you must repeat to yourself to feel secure? Do you have a lot of facial or bodily tics?

Do you ever feel like this?:

http://youngwritersproject.org/node/16161
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"Heehee - I love the word assassination. It's like two asses, me, and a nation!" -gradster1

writingdog's picture

Thanks

It actually says that I might have ocd.
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"High school. Or was purgatory the right word?"- Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun

i scored 9 out of 40. said i

i scored 9 out of 40. said i probably didnt lol

qwertygirl890123's picture

It would appear that I

It would appear that I probably do not have OCD
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writingdog's picture

I will have to check with my

I will have to check with my doctor about this..
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"High school. Or was purgatory the right word?"- Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun

umm i dont know- but i know

umm i dont know- but i know anorexia is a form of ocd- or sum doctors consider it- yah i dont have ocd- maybe a cleaning obsession- if things arent clean i flip. but i think thts just part of my being a perfectionist, but yah my asthma thing is nothing compared to ocd thts way more time consuming

"happiness shines in a cirle of ponies"..words to live by!

wat r the statistics of ocd

wat r the statistics of ocd ?

"happiness shines in a cirle of ponies"..words to live by!

NonSequitur's picture

Try this link:

http://understanding_ocd.tripod.com/ocd_facts_statistics.html

Hope it helps. :)
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"Heehee - I love the word assassination. It's like two asses, me, and a nation!" -gradster1

nonsequaitor

hey nonsequaitor did yer feet + hands go tingly when u had panic attacks and then like curl up painfully and did u ever faint.. im starting to wonder if those were panic attacks or just me having a lack of oxygen from what ive heard of other ppls panic attacks they sound dif than mine

"happiness shines in a cirle of ponies"..words to live by!

NonSequitur's picture

Let's see...

Yes, my hands and feet would tingle sometimes. And breathing would be difficult occasionally, although I don't have asthma. I've never fainted, but I've gone limp.

Also, I used to be able to tell when I would get a panic attack, because I'd go completely numb first, unnervingly numb, no emotion at all, and then -BOOM!- my emotions would EXPLODE.

I was diagnosed in sixth grade, and the summer before that, I had such severe symptoms. I would go weeks at a time feeling limb and numb during the day, totally unmotivated to do anything, and then exploding in terror at night. I had a lot of trouble eating and sleeping, too.

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"Heehee - I love the word assassination. It's like two asses, me, and a nation!" -gradster1

poison to my lips makes me

poison to my lips makes me ponder how i've felt
denying that its normal makes me feel empowered
knowing that it's mine to hide mine to hide
makes me feel like im controlled
by something other than school
so poison me once more i doubt its for real, poison me once more i'd like to see it's truth
im on track this time and your right on my heels
so dig a grave for all i said, im angry at this time
maybe it's just a phase hopefully not real this time

- this poem i wrote kind of fits ocd- mine to hide mine to hide, hopefulyl its just a phase not real this time
( the fears that come along if you dont do a ritual, hopefully theyre not real this time) but other parts totally dont- "happiness shines in a cirle of ponies"..words to live by!

i guess it depends wut form

i guess it depends wut form of ocd u hav
the poem may or may not fit
"happiness shines in a cirle of ponies"..words to live by!

NonSequitur's picture

Oh, I think it fits very

Oh, I think it fits very well.

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"Heehee - I love the word assassination. It's like two asses, me, and a nation!" -gradster1

well its nice to know that

well its nice to know that we're not all alone out here :)

yah we're never alone, for

yah we're never alone, for the most part- or well hwo bout this even though it makes no sense 'we;re alone together'

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