Anxiety Support Group

Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...

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Anybody feel like this ??

anxietysucks
anxietysucks

I have gotten days where I have to think on breathing. If I don't think about breathing, I feel like I'm not breathing at all and that I'm gonna die. Sometimes it's like all day that I have to think about it. And because of that I get super anxious. I have to tell myself breathe in and breathe out. Anybody else gets like this ??? I couldn't even sleep tonight cause I woke up in the middle of the night aware of my breathing. 

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Writing out breathing six times-expand on the details in a private journal, writing out feelings connected.

The more you write it out, the easier it will be to pick out the part where you can change to a positive word and image to help you move through the moment and find balance.

Breathing is automatic. If you have a tendency to 'hold your breath', it will still go into automatic breathing mode.
rmb
rmb
Yes, I’ve experienced this. For me it’s part of the hyper vigilance. The more I focused on the breathing by telling myself to breath, the more it feels like I wasn’t breathing right. Our bodies knows how to breath. The mind tells you a lie that it doesn’t. So for me, I just try to redirect and keep myself busy and distracted.
Tamaira14
Tamaira14
Yes I've gotten this where I'm hyperfocuced on my breathing and will think I'm breathing to fast or two slow. Same with my heartbeat
Crystalclear
Crystalclear
Anxietysucks. Yes I have the same issues with my breathing at times. It feels like I have to make myself breathe. I try to focus on something else, But sometimes it's really hard.
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