Anyone?

[Ann_25]

I really need someone to message about my anxiety and maybe here about there’s? Trade some tips? Anything? Would be greatly appreciated

[Agora1]

Hi Ann_25, sorry for the delay. It gets a little slow on the weekend. What's happening?

[Ann_25 in reply to Agora1]

I just been going thru a lot I’ve been in and out the er for the last week and can’t seem to stay out. My anxiety bring on paranoia and I’m constantly getting scared by everything like even the ticking of a clock sets it off. I just don’t know what to do. I’ve been like this for a week now and I’m scared my anxiety is doing physical damage to my body and heart

[babygirl1952 in reply to Ann_25]

Wow I'm So Sorry Dear I was like that last year in and out of the hospital they had to take me off of one of my meds that was causing it I had to cut out coffee sugar and any type of stimulated it is a trigger for an anxiety to set in and lead in to a panic attack this is what happens to me if engage with stimulates of any type and this was also told to me by more than one doctor And since I stopped I have been free of panic attacks for a year now but I still get anxiety but I know how to make it better I hope this post helps you and anyone else that reads it God Bless

[Ann_25 in reply to babygirl1952]

Thank u so much! I don’t do any caffeine or anything like that. I do try to keep my life style as natural as possible. It’s hard cause little things like the grocery store freak me out and send me into pure panic. I use to be such a go go go person and now I can’t even drive in traffic without complete pain from my anxiety😔

[babygirl1952 in reply to Ann_25]

Dear I hope you get better really soon just remember Jesus Christ loves you

[LIwwy35]

Hello, I will be happy to share my tips. When I have flare-ups, i cry it out, and i just myself cry and even sob. Then, i breathe slowly, i close my eyes, i usually listen to nature sounds , and just breath lightly and steadily. I listen to "weightless by Marconi" and French radio station in Pandora. I let my thoughts race and whatever i am worried about, i say it out loud. Then, when I am done saying whatever thing in my mind, i would talk to myself as if advising myself. If i am worried about my job, i just say that" I am gonna be ok, you can find another job if this that did not work" or I say "Hey, this is temporary, look around you are in your room/parking lot/work" you are safe,you are gonna be ok". Then, i think about a happy thought or a place I want to travel to.

It seems to calm me down. Meditation and also singing helps me.

[Ann_25 in reply to LIwwy35]

Thank u so much I will try all of these! Do u ever have heart palpitations or high heart rate? If so what do u normally do? I struggle so much with the high heart rate and also run to the er cause how anxious it makes me... thanks again for the tips!😇

[LIwwy35 in reply to Ann_25]

I actually thought i had heart problems because of the heart palpitations. The doctors did ao many tests but could not find any problems. I felt this doom,i felt like my heartaches, and I get scared. What I usually do is take slow steady breath. I monitor my heart rate using a smart watch, and i try to lower down the heart beats by breathing slowly and listening to my breathing. Also close your eyes and count numbers in your head but very slowly. let me know if it helps.

[Ann_25 in reply to LIwwy35]

Thank u so much! My heart rate got up to 170 on a heart monitor. But could that really just be from stress and anxiety? And I will try that! Thank u for the advice!

[LIwwy35 in reply to Ann_25]

It could be ,definitely get it checked. It does help to know to slow down the heartbeat and calm down. Definitely try the music.

[Jeff1943]

Ann, anxiety cannot physically damage you, it may worry us and make us think there's something terribly wrong with us but the power of anxiety is limited. Can't kill you, can't disable you, can't send you crazy.

When things we don't understand start happening to us we fear the worst. But we are our own worst enemies, we are very good at frightening ourselves half to death (as the saying goes).

Somewhere along the line you have gone through a period of worry and stress and this has made your nerves oversensitive. Every problem becomes exaggerated ten fold and our imagination runs riot. Palpitations become the beginning of a heart attack, stomach upsets must be cancer, whatever it is we fear the worst. When in fact all your bad feelings and symptoms are being caused by a simple glitch in your nervous system.

Anxiety is a toothless paper tiger, it makes you feel awful but can do you no real damage. I'm presuming you've been told by a doctor that you have anxiety disorder.

No matter how long you have suffered you can recover. What you have to do is to lose your fear of the symptoms because you know the piwer of anxiety is limited and all those symptoms are fake. Then just accept them for the time being. Accept them utterly without reacting fearfully to them. Go on accepting them for as lo g as it takes, don't react to them by flooding your nervous system with fear hormones. This gives your sensitised nervous system a chance to heal itself and recover. Not today, not tomorrow, maybe not even next week but in its own good time. You probably spent months, even years, getting into this state, allow your nerves a lesser time to recover.

So when the next feeling of panic comes along just take a slow breath, hold it for a few seconds and then breathe out slowly through pursed lips. This releases tranquillising hormones so keep doing it. But above all, accept the symptoms of anxiety totally for the time being, carry on with what you have to do. Once you start to accept then the days of your frazzled nerves and high anxiety are numbered.