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[Connieliston]

Hi I just joined I have anxiety and panic disorder. It so much controls my life I also get dizzy it scare me so much l feel like I'm going pass out I try drinking water not much helping to much. I feel like I'm going pass out . some days it's hard to deal with but I'm trying not to let it win. I will try the breathing see if this helps me.

[Agora1]

Hi Connieliston, (I like the name) Welcome to the Anxiety Forum. I think you will find you are not alone in feeling like this as well as getting the support you need. I too went through what you are experiencing. It goes much further than drinking water, deep breathing and even taking medication. These are all really a quick band aid effect until we are able to get the fear from taking over our every thought. I went from every modality out there to being left on meds for years and wondered why I never got better. What I was basically doing at the time was lying back and depending on those techniques to make me better. It wasn't until I started therapy along with meds did I start to fully understand what anxiety was all about. It's a mind game played by a vicious anxiety bully. And after I realized that I had more power in me than anxiety, did I start to get better. Focusing on other things, getting angry enough to want to change my life. Little by little I got control back, got off my meds and have never felt better. I still however do daily relaxation and deep breathing to keep me in a comfortable mode both mind and body. I am literally now on a "high" with life itself and not meds. You can do it Connie....

[Connieliston in reply to Agora1]

Thanks so much on your reply. It gives me hope. That someday I will get better. I am on two different med s and going start therapy soon. I had anxiety for so long and I know these feelings will pass . but when I'm in the middle of having a panic attack it so hard to deal with I try everything . so I hope the breathing will help . and just knowing that in not alone that I have this web site also helps . nobody really gets what I go through. Just not easy some days . thanks for the compliment on my name . and for the help. It has to get better soon I hope. Take care