Panic attack

[ashleybakerr01]

Just had a bad panic attack out of nowhere for no reason at all 😩. Still Shakey afterwards and can't stop thinking about it, which is making me more anxious. My body felt like it was on FIRE. The burning sensation was intense. My medicine is supposed to help, but I honestly feel like my anxiety has actually gotten WORSE since I've been on it at beginning of September. I need advice to help myself through them when this happens, because sadly it happens often 😞. Now I feel beyond exhausted

[Shnookie]

hi it’s Shnookie. I’m here 4 U. The idea now is to try to lower your anxiety. If U can go to your bed, a comfy couch or chair , start with deep breathing exercises, Inhale thru nostrils feeling your stomach muscles, then exhale thru mouth letting your stomach out

Turn in soft pleasant music that U like

I just use my smart phone and go onto

You Tube , U can listen to positive affirmations lectures on You Tube as

well. Hugs 🤗 S 🙏😎💪

[ashleybakerr01 in reply to Shnookie]

Thank you

[Shnookie in reply to ashleybakerr01]

you are very welcome 🙏

[ilovecats08]

I don't have any professional medical advice, but I have found that putting on a video or an episode of a tv show I am very familiar with always helped me calm down. I used to watch I Love Lucy, which is a comfort show for me. I hope you're feeling better and that your anxiety improves

[ashleybakerr01 in reply to ilovecats08]

I had a second one shortly after. But I'm ok now. I just get them randomly at times and they can get severe

[ilovecats08 in reply to ashleybakerr01]

I'm sorry sending you hugs

[ashleybakerr01 in reply to ilovecats08]

Thanks. I'm trying to work through it buts it's rlly difficult

[designguy]

I found that medication helped make my anxiety more manageable but did not eliminate it. It took learning what it really is and how to constructively deal with it and determining why and how I developed it to heal it. Here is my answer to a similar question as yours:

What you are describing are the typical sensations of a panic attack which is caused by the surge of adrenalin in your body and prompted by your anxious thoughts that happen so fast you are most likely not even aware of them. Panic and anxiety can be caused by repressed emotions/trauma from your past and fears about your present or the future. They can also be caused or contributed to physically by your hormones, thyroid, adrenals, caffeine and poor diet.

Learning what they really are, why and how you have them and how to constructively deal with them is the key to healing them. You may even find medication helpful at least temporarily. What helped me was learning that anxiety/panic can't harm you and that it is a paradox, the more we resist it and struggle with it the more it persists so the solution is to surrender to the panicky sensations and don't believe the anxious thoughts and let the adrenalin flow through our body and dissipate. I found it relatively easy to get over the panic attacks but it took longer to resolve my anxiety. Anxiety is our bodies built in defense system that is basically malfunctioning now that you are an adult and no longer need protecting and you need to desensitize yourself to it.

I recommend the DARE Anxiety book and youtube videos for how to deal with panic/anxiety and the youtube videos of Dr. Claire Weekes and the book At Last a Life and Beyond by Paul David.