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...
I have recently been going through a lot of financial and personal problems and my anxiety has been unbearable. The last 2 days straight I have been having a constant panic attack and the trazodone I have been given won't work when it's bad like this.
I feel awful my heart is pounding so hard I feel like I'm afraid I'm having a heart attack I'm dizzy I can't breathe last night I had 2 nightmares in a row that made me wake up with a pounding heart and sweating through the sheets and I woke up twice every hour. I can't go to school like this and I am having suicidal thoughts and shaking so hard I can barely type.
Can someone please tell me any breathing exercises or ANYTHING to help, I have no health insurance and even if I did my doctor refuses to give me any medication stronger than the trazodone. I can't stand being like this it's unbearable and won't stop.
Can someone please help I feel like I'm dying, (as a PS. please realize even though I am having suicidal thoughts I would never do it, it's just my crazy brain trying to make the panic stop, I am not going to hurt myself).
I feel awful my heart is pounding so hard I feel like I'm afraid I'm having a heart attack I'm dizzy I can't breathe last night I had 2 nightmares in a row that made me wake up with a pounding heart and sweating through the sheets and I woke up twice every hour. I can't go to school like this and I am having suicidal thoughts and shaking so hard I can barely type.
Can someone please tell me any breathing exercises or ANYTHING to help, I have no health insurance and even if I did my doctor refuses to give me any medication stronger than the trazodone. I can't stand being like this it's unbearable and won't stop.
Can someone please help I feel like I'm dying, (as a PS. please realize even though I am having suicidal thoughts I would never do it, it's just my crazy brain trying to make the panic stop, I am not going to hurt myself).
I do sometimes find this helpful...
Lay down on your back and try to take deep breaths, in and out, and focus on nothing but your stomach moving up and down. I know it sounds a little strange, but it helps me sometimes. Taking a hot bath helps sometimes too. You can also message me if you want, if you wanna vent. That helps me too.
Try to relax. I know it's hard, honey. You're gonna be ok though.
One of the meds that really helps is propranalol. It regulates heart rate and since that's one of the main components of an anxiety attack, once that's regulated, the attack has a hard time manifesting and if it does, it passes more quickly.
You can ask your dr for it - it doesn't need to build up in your system. It can be taken daily or just as needed.
For now, deep breaths can help. As you're doing that, look around your environment. What are 5 things you see? And 5 things you hear? 5 things you feel? 5 things you smell.
If you still feel anxious, more deep breaths and think of 4 things you see, 4 things you hear, 4 things you feel, 4 things you smell (different from the ones you identified before.
Still anxious? More deep breaths and think of 3 things...then 2...then 1.
By now, you are likely feeling more present and more able to deal with the anxiety.
Also, if you can recognize the anxiety as nothing more than an adrenalin dump it may help. Your body is healthfully releasing excess adrenalin and all the physical symptoms are a result of your body healthfully releasing the adrenalin.
The anxiety is the result of our interpreting the shaking and rapid heart beat as something being wrong. Actually, it's just a healthy reaction - unpleasant but not dangerous. The problem is that when we're in a dangerous situation, we ALSO get the extra adrenalin to deal with it so it's easy to misinterpret.
Hope some of these thoughts help.