All I do is focus on my breathing

[Barrettsmommy]

I am 23 years old I had my son a month ago and ever since I have been having a hard time breathing, well that’s how I feel. I have been to the hospital 5 times I have had so much blood work, ekgs, CT’s, and X-rays and everything came back normal. I even went out and bought myself an oxygen monitor and it says 98-100 every time I put it on and yet I still feel like I can’t breathe or if I stop thinking about how I am breathing that I am just going to stop breathing and pass out. Today is my first day taking Prozac, I took Zoloft for 3 days and literally got every single side effect so the doctors switched it for me. I’ve tried to control my breathing also and that just makes me focus on it more and freak myself out even more. I hate going places cause I feel like I might just pass out there. I just want to feel like myself again this is extremely annoying!

[kevoreally]

I used to control my breathing and worry about it once too im 23 as well this was when I went to highschool idk how ai stopped but ai did lol i also had a phobia about not blinking enough lmao oddly enough that stopped too i guess the things ai told myself was if you wake up every night your breathing just fine and your mind is playing tricks do to anxiety you could be worrying about your sons life or it could be stressing you out which is causing you to focus on your breathing but if you ask me i feel as thogh if you focus on your breathing your gonna slow it down or speed it up which in that case may not be the best thing to happen but if you pass out remember your body will do what it normally does which id BREATHE and all of that good stuff haha just keep your mind occupied and see whats stressing you out