My lungs feel weak

[anxietymadman123]

Everything I’ve normally done that didn’t make me breathless, now does I’m so confused I was having a laugh and plying with my mate for literally like 2 mins and my breath made me really really breathless, I don’t get it I’m so scared

[Agora1]

Hi madman if you don't have any other symptoms, this very well may be anxiety.

You may have been holding your breath while laughing or your chest wall muscles

tightened up while playing and laughing. Try to relax and not be so alarmed.

Breathe xx

[anxietymadman123 in reply to Agora1]

Thankyou!

[Kamran42 in reply to anxietymadman123]

I get what your going through. I have same problems, everyone says try relax but it's easier said than done.

[Clumsy_1]

Could you have asthma

[pmspaul]

I agree with Agora1 about it being anxiety if you have no other medical issues or symptoms.

I have asthma and have experienced the breathlessness you're describing. I've tried my inhalers and it made no difference in those instances. There have been a couple of times where I was convinced it must be Covid related. But in the end, it would go away on its own after a while. So now when I experience it, I just immediately chalk it up to anxiety and deal with it like any other anxiety I experience.

The hard thing for me to understand was that my body will react with anxiety symptoms even when I don't think there is any conscious worrying or anxiety going on in my head. My therapist helped me to see some of the subconscious things that might be triggering these symptoms that I was completely overlooking.

And it is about more than just trying to relax. That's hard to do when you're anxious and scared. But if you recognize what's going on, you can keep from mentally spiraling so badly and hopefully get through it quicker. I'll do a breathing exercise for a minute, and try to focus my mind elsewhere.

[anxietymadman123 in reply to pmspaul]

What makes them happen subconsciously and it’s like all the time near enough

[pmspaul in reply to anxietymadman123]

Do you mean what makes mine happen subconsciously? I don’t always know. But sometimes when I look back at things after I’ve had anxiety creep up, I can find some small thing that may have caused it. Like seeing something that triggers a memory while you’re focused elsewhere or hearing something that does the same. All I know is that I can become anxious for seemingly no apparent reason. I’m not necessarily consciously worried about something but I’ll still get anxious. I assume there has to be a cause somewhere, doesn’t there?

It really can be a vicious cycle in my experience. The longer you spend in that anxious mode, the easier it seems to go right back into it over the smallest stimuli.