Fireworks

[Rafael_]

For the past week and today fireworks have been oftenly shot and I've been sitting in my room constantly in spasms agitated because I am faint of the heart and this has been taking an extreme amount of shock on my body. I can't do anything to close off the noise or go somewhere else, just breathing and waiting it out tomorrow is all I can do

[punkster]

I'm sorry you have to live through this. I don't mean to compare you to my dog, but this happens to him, also. We took him to the vet and he prescribed trazodone. It really works for him. Trazodone is also a human medication and it might help you next time you have to deal with fireworks.

[TyrSwimmer_Sac]

Yikes. I have had that scenario before. My strategy: I have taken a something prescribed by my doctor and had my dogs next to me and put my head set on to play music or white noise to settle my mind and senses to a peaceful place in my head. (sorry for the run on sentence). It was my way of dealing with sounds that trigger my panic attacks in the past.

What works for you could be very different. There is also exercise or noise blocker like the ones for heavy machinery. Another thought if there is someone that you know you can chat with such as someone online on this site or via phone etc. Just some thoughts. Of course it's hard to come by ideas when you are the moment, so best to ask for help professionally or a support site like this one.

Hope this is somewhat helpful. I am around off and on so you are welcome to direct message me too.

[TyrSwimmer_Sac]

Oh wait something else just hit me thought wise. In group therapy, we also did breathing exercise and used techniques involving the other senses human use every day i.e. touch, smell, taste, sight, sound. We did exercises that involved them to stimulate the senses to break the cycle of thought fixated on the anxiety. If you can remember times in your life where a certain sense was majorly stimulated by one of your senses in a positive and healthy way, you could try repeating it. For me I have a favorite food that takes me back to the fondest memories of my mom and I in the kitchen where I grew up. The taste of the food took me back in my head to place and time where things were very very good. It worked to break the ruminating cycle of negative waves of bad panic attacks I had. Being around my mom was so calming so I took myself back to those thoughts. It's just my example. Yours could be anything that had strong positive thoughts in your past. I hope you can use this mental exercise to bring yourself back from bad feels. Please try and don't give up if it doesn't work right away. You kinda have to just let yourself go to feel it. Sometimes it'll be really easy other times you might just have to keep doing it with the same sense or combination of senses to bring yourself to a happy place in your mind. You could also get someone you know to help with it or do it online with someone you trust. Cheers. Hope it brings you some comfort.