bad anxiety

[KatieRichie94]

My anxiety has been so bad lately. When I was out running in the forest, I had to turn around after running only .40 miles. I was so short of breath and was heavily breathing and I still am even though I stopped running 40 minutes ago.

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Hello

Wow 40 miles I would be out of breath in fact I would need oxygen !

I would be lucky if I could run 40 yards but I am a lot older admitted

I think running that far everyone might feel breathless but when we have anxiety we concentrate more on everything our bodies are doing & once we notice the slightest difference the fear overwhelms us & we zoom in & we struggle to let go

Do you try doing breathing exercises ? If we can master doing them they really do help , a simple one is to breath in then blow out as if you are blowing a candle out or if you have a paper bag breathing in & out of that is very simple but effective x

[KatieRichie94 in reply to Hidden]

not 40 miles ! lol. .40! like 4/10 of a mile ! I found out that I have bacterial bronchitis.

[Hidden in reply to KatieRichie94]

Oh right

I did think wow

Well if you have bronchitis you would get out of breath ...maybe while it clears up give running a miss as that will save you feeling anxious x

[KatieRichie94 in reply to Hidden]

definetely going back to running probably thursday