NOOOO! You Mt. Dew nazi!! I MUST have my Mt. Dew!

I don't drink it like I used to though. I have cut WAY back. But I can't give it up. It's my "morning coffee" and my evening assurance that I won't get a 3 day caffeine headache. I try to drink other stuff during the day...water, sprite, etc...
I do take nice deep breaths when I start to feel panicky, sometimes it helps.
And for me, in the car, some of it (well most if not all of it I guess) is because I don't trust other drivers. PTSD from a nasty accident I had one winter that totalled my car and messed me up. Some idiot going too fast on a curve, hit me in the drivers door and knocked me for a real loop. Snow/ice + driving = me a nervous wreck!! My psychiatrist has told me NOT to drive in it.
Right now, she's got me on Paxil, Xanax, Depakote twice a day, Abilify, and a low dose of Remeron to make me sleep at night. Think my liver hates me yet?? LOL! I don't want to be on these forever either, but I foresee a long future of these meds unfortunately. I've been on the Paxil forever anyway, then added the Xanax last year...then had my first panic attack while on them. So psych added more. I DO seem to be a lot more calm now. I think the mood stabilizer helped a lot with that.
Unfortunately....or fortunately...however you want to look at it, I lost my job on Monday...I still have yet to freak out about it. *scratches head* Usually I would've been an absolute mess as soon as I got the news, but eh..whatever. It sucks, because with the economy, who knows when I'll find another job....but it sorta doesn't suck, because that job was so stressful, that I think for my mental health, they did me a favor. So it's sort of a catch 22.
I also have a deep, long, family history of depression, anxiety, alcoholism, you name it! So, I get it honestly.