Anxiety

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How do you deal with an anxiety attack??

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Hello.I think is answer is how do we not? We are all so different, and have all kinds of ways to cope. So, you may have opened Pandora's box. I don't have anxiety attacks, I have anxiety hours.

A panic attack lasts ten minutes. I have anxiety hour(s) where I need to spend the energy that anxiety needs to continue. I sometimes walk as fast as I can, sometimes focus on housework and do one thing only 15 minutes at a time. Sometimes call everyone in my phone directory for 5-10 minutes each, I remind myself it will pass, sometimes try deep breathing, sometimes pray my rosary, sometimes sit in a rocking chair and read posts on this venue, sometimes write in a diary, sometimes call the crisis line if it is the middle of the night if I just need to hear a human voice. I don't drive, I don't drink, I don't write a post that "I don't want live."

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Mine usually happen at night so I can't do much but deep breathing, leaving the room I'm in when it started, watching YouTube videos (asmr videos work wonders for me) Sometimes I can't get myself out of it and I just have to wait for the panic to stop.