I have panic attacks, I'm always afraid of something that might happen something bad unfortunately.
I go to sleep worried & I wake up worried as well this started happening two years ago, I thought I had problems with my heart then I figured it out!
The panic attacks are really tiring & it's under your control how to stop them?💔
Medication helped with my panic attacks. I take klonopin and a beta blocker to help with panic.
Panic attacks are very uncomfortable but most people with anxiety experience them. When your nerves become over sensitive (due to too much worry, stress, over-work, disappointment, grief, toxic relationships etc) they exaggerate all our minor concerns and worries by tenfold or more.
For example, people without anxiety have low levels of concern that something bad could happen. In your case, due to sensitisation of your nervous system, that normal concern has been amplified out of all proportion which is why you're constantly fearful.
Problem is, the fear hormone your body produces causes further sensitisation and you get stuck in a vicious cycle of fear producing more fear hormone producing more bad feelings producing more fear. And so it goes on and on until the cycle is broken.
Panic attacks are simply the response of your nerves to anxiety overload. Although they are horrid they won't kill you, disable you or send you crazy. They are toothless paper tigers, all bark and no bite. Don't fight them, fighting only causes more tension and stress.
Instead of fighting the panic attacks and the bad thoughts and feelings, try accepting them for the time being instead. Let them come and break over you, they cannot harm you.
You see, you cannot both fear and accept something at the same time. So withhold your fear, refuse to react to the flash of first fear with second fear. You now have the reassurance that all these symptoms are harmless.
Less fear means less fear hormone on the rampage and in the fullness of time your nerves lose their sensitivity and you regain your quiet mind. But you will need to neutralise whatever it is that is causing you so much worry and has made you end up this way.
Nanu-16, you can recover and you will recover when you remove the cause of your high anxiety and take control of your fears through Acceptance.
This is the way forward: come join the hopeful band travelling the Yellow Brick Road to recovery.
Thank you so much you've been very helpful
I really appreciate it🌸.
There is a short self-help book that was written for you. Titled 'Self help for your nerves'* by Claire Weekes, she was a psychiatrist who experienced anxiety disorder herself and developed her Acceptance method to bring about her recovery. Then wrote the book to share her method. It is easy to read, devoid of complex medical terms and as you read it you feel she knew you. It's available new or used from Amazon.
I think you will find the book life changing.
*in the U.S. the same book is titled "Hope and help for your nerves".
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