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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michiev 03/31/2011

I had a really bad attack during the day today.. For the first time in forever, Nothing i tried helped (I think it might have something to do with the fact that i was UNWILLING to relax in the first place and i kept making it worse by adding on all these worrying thoughts and fears) But anyway.. It was bad and it took a while for me to be "normal" again.

I was wondering, does anyone else ever have that paranoia when they have an attack that the next day/night/evening/specific day they will have the same reaction to the day? Like the attack will repeat itself.. I feel like that sometimes and by that paranoia alone it makes me relive that day and those fears and sometimes it makes me have an anxiety reaction.

Any advice on this?

chloelu 03/31/2011

Yes! That is a normal response when you have a bad panic attack. You start to anticipate it happening again and think it will be in the same place or same situation. That is setting yourself up though and you need to distract yourself in some way during that time. ((hugs))

michiev 03/31/2011

So how have you dealt with that kind of anxiety paranoia? *Hugs back* Thank you for responding. You're so nice :D

I just wish i knew how to STOP setting myself up for anxious moods.

michiev 03/31/2011

So how have you dealt with that kind of anxiety paranoia? *Hugs back* Thank you for responding. You're so nice :D

I just wish i knew how to STOP setting myself up for anxious moods.

deleted_user 04/01/2011

You know having the panic attacks is not easy. When I first started getting them yrs ago I had them all day and everyday!Well little by little they started going aways but even to this day I still have them. I have found that I won't say I will never have another one because you just never know when they will come. You can go foever then have one then not again for along time. You never know. I try not to worrie about them or think about them and when I do get one I just try and work thru it. I'm always around if you need to talk and everyone here is great so remember your never alone.tazzy21

deleted_user 04/01/2011

Anxiety paranoia used to be a big thing for me. I used to worry about having a panic attack untill I asked myself "whats the worse that can happen" in regards to having the panic attack. As one person put it to me..... "its not an anxiety attack its just ignorance leaving the mind". They told me that because I used to live by the saying "pain is just weakness leaving the body". Xanax has helped me quite a bit in controling my anxiety.... at least with some of the physical symptoms. Your not alone in how you feel. Hope things get better for you...... I know they will, you have to realize that too though :)

iloverabbits 04/01/2011

This is the whole reason we have panic attacks. If we weren't afraid of them, they wouldn't happen. It is so so hard but we have to get to the point where we do nothing about the attack. We carry on doing what we were doing and don't "protect" purselves by changing our behavior, calling someone on the phone, pacing etc. The more we can get through it with a level of detachment, the less afraid we will become. Nothing we do truly protects us because we aren't in danger.
If a lion was about to pounce on you, would deep breathing save you? Or calling yourboyfriend? Or getting on ds? No, of course not. The only reason the distractions help us is because we are feeling discomfort and not danger. BUT indulging in the distractions and coping techniques reinforces the idea we need to protect ourselves and the attacks keep happening. Struggling makes you feel desperate and afraid and the attacks keep happening. We need to be present and aware and not struggle against the attacks. It is SO damn hard and scary but we have to do that to get better.

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