tw: anxiety

[PessimisticOptimist]

I feel these waves of nervousness, fear and anxiety and they stop me from breathing and sometimes I feel like I'm about to die. How can I control this without medication?

[Nothingtohide]

Tell yourself that it's not true.It's just a thought.

You know you are still breathing because you know you have a will to live. It's just a thought tell these thought you are just and not reality.

And yoga does help in all these. If you want you can try practicing yoga.

[Hidden]

How are you?

I am also not ony meds and I manage depression and enxiety. It a real bad demon but what I do is control my thoughts. I know that we can not control what pops up our thoughts but we can control what remain there by keep repeating that positive thought even when we see things are not changing. I also starting to practice the breathing techniques. I was also looking for ways and in this site they helped with that and I am starting it and I do it. I have not yet seen results because I'm just starting it but I always try to make sure that I commit myself in anything I start so that I can be confident about the results in case it does not work for me. You can try those as well.

[JkBauer]

Good evening,I hope that you are feeling better tonight. I remember years and years ago in my teenage years that was a very stressful, depressing, and lonely time in my life. That was when I was also learning a lot of life lessons back then. I remember asking myself that back then. I wanted to find a way to control my darkened world, I wanted to find freedom from my stress and loneliness. So, I started praying to God and asking Him for help. My parents had their own agenda and were hardly ever around and so I just learned to do things on my own. So, I prayed "LORD, Help me, I do not know what to do. I am afraid, lonely, scared. Please help!" I kept praying that prayer whenever I thought about it. Then my prayers changed, LORD, please help not to be afraid, please give me hope! I kept praying that, then some ideas started appearing into my mind of what I could do. One was to sing a song when I started feeling really bad. I needed something very simple and yet effective. I chose "Jesus Loves Me." Then I asked God to please keep my attention focused only on the song until I had gotten my mind focused back on my task at hand. This really was a good start for me without having to take any medicine. I will pray for you!

[SheWrote]

Hey there! I have been there, so I understand what you are feeling. One thing that helped me was knowing what was causing the fear and anxiety. Do you know what is causing it? Sometimes in the moment it seems worse than it might actually be... You are stronger than you think!!! And you can get through this!!! HUGS!!!