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Can I ask how old you are, and what happened to you when you felt you had an anxiety attack?
I'm not a psychologist or expert by any means, but I've had two forms of anxiety related issues since about 19. The first I learned was what is known as "performance anxiety", where you have to perform (be it a recital or a speech or whatever) in front of a group of people; and the second which is I think a more severe form that kind of debilitates you and can mask itself as feeling like you're having a heart attack, when you're not.
Sadly, my son has been afflicted with the same problem and it has been diagnosed as a "disability" for him. Which means he gets a lot of help in college (and previously in high school).
Will it affect school now that it's happened in summer? Maybe. Maybe not. For me, school is the only place where it didn't affect me too much except, perhaps, in gearing up to audition to get into a performing arts class at UCLA. I always wanted to challenge myself and get outside my comfort zone. When it came time to perform, I did it, but the waiting part leading up to it was beyond difficult. Or test taking -- sitting in a room with a bunch of people where you haven't finished reading the first sentence of a question and people are already writing in the test book. That always freaked me out, sometimes to the point where my mind went completely blank.
There's a lot of help for this, but you need to describe exactly what happened and if you can think about how it came on -- what triggered it, that would help a lot in trying to make suggestions to you. I've figured out how to deal with most of these issues successfully, but need to know what your triggers are to try and help you.
It can be helped in many, many ways. Trust me, you are NOT alone.
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