Help

[jaar]

Keep losing my breathe. Almost like my whole body shuts down for a moment. Can't get the symptoms fromhead to toe to stop. Feel like I need to be hospitalized. I get worse by the minute and see no way out of this hell

[Jeff1943]

jaar, as you're posting this on an anxiety forum you must think it's anxiety. But for reassurance I strongly advise you to get a doctor's opinion, tell him or her exactly how you feel. And I think you could do with a little tranquillisation while you plan your recovery. So ask for an emergency appointment with your doc as soon as pos.

If as you suspect your symptoms are caused by anxiety then it seems that your nervous system has become sensitised by tiredness, worry and stress. So you get all sorts of strange symptoms that are caused by a misfiring nervous system. But because they're not real in an organic sense they may frighten you half to death but these symptoms you're experiencing aren't life threatening, they can't damage your body, in fact they're down right frauds.

The thing to do is to stop fighting, that only creates more tension. And practice letting every muscle in your body relax and go limp when you get the bad feelings. After all, you know they're fake, they can't hurt you, so why fear them. They may make you feel bad but if you can accept the bad feelings for a while you break the chain if fear causing symptoms causing more fear causing more symptoms etc which us how you got into this state in the first place.

So try accepting thise bad feelings without fear, you are not alone, almost all of us on this forum have gone through what you're experiencing now. You will recover when you feel angry enough to stop fake nervous feelings play havoc with your nerves and stop fearing them because after all they're really toothless paper tigers. But tge first thing is to see your doctor at the earliest you can. Recovery lies ahead for you, just as it did for those of us here who stopped adding second fear to first fear and fuelling the fire of anxuety disorder.

[jaar in reply to Jeff1943]

thank you. I'm trying all of these things but just keep getting worse but thank you for your response.

[Jeff1943 in reply to jaar]

Jaar, the ability of our nervous system to produce frightening symptoms is limited, they won't just go on getting worse and worse, they are self-limiting because after all they are just bad thoughts without any substance at all. So let those muscles relax from head to foot, feel them doing it and just accept the bad feelings for the moment because at the end of the day your mind and body are more powerful than something that is just an 'thought'.