‘I was thinking my life’s over’ – Luke Humphries reveals ‘massive spiral’ after panic attack left him fearing death
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LUKE HUMPHRIES admits he thought his “life was over” before undergoing Cognitive Behaviour Therapy to cure his anxiety attacks. The World No.1 returns to the big stage in the Bahrain Masters this week after losing out to Peter Wright in the World Championship last month.
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‘Cool Hand’, 29, has already revealed how he suffered from panic attacks but has opened up further on the hugely-popular Jaackmate podcast. He said: “The first time it happened to me I was in a darts exhibition, just before I was professional. “Everything was fine, I was playing Phil Taylor. I beat him that night. Maybe I was a bit nervous in the game. I never had these sort of anxious feelings before.
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“I went to the hotel and woke up a few hours later, my heartbeat racing. You know it was going really fast. I’d never like touched my chest or heart before in my life. “I touched it and it felt out of rhythm. It put me in this panic. I couldn’t sleep again through the night.".
Humphries, who lost four stone in weight during the Covid lockdown, explained how the problem continued. He said: “Two days later it happened again. I had to go in an ambulance because I felt really faint and all this type of stuff. “They told me my blood pressure is quite high and your heart rate rhythm is fine but it’s quite fast and that was when it all started.
