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Posted 6/29/2013 8:59 AM (GMT 0)
Havent had a full breath of air in weeks!!!! Feels like a mountain on my shoulders!!!! Even in my slee
p!!!! How can i.get my breathing rhythm bak!??!!
Posted 6/29/2013 10:42 AM (GMT 0)
I've read that, as anxiety sufferers, our natural breathing pattern is to hyperventilate. It's often stated in many sources that we have to make an active effort to retrain ourselves on how we breathe and to become conscious of when and why we are hyperventilating. As far as doing it in your sleep, I'm not sure I have experience with that but maybe it is caused by sleep apnea which is common. Practice deep belly breathing everyday and learn to realize when you're hyperventilating so you can correct it.
Posted 6/29/2013 11:01 AM (GMT 0)
Yea i know ... my anxiety is out the roof right now!!!! My fear of my heart stopping is kicking me in the but!!!!!!!!! Im.so.anxious!!!!!!!!!
Posted 6/29/2013 11:01 AM (GMT 0)
Yea i know ... my anxiety is out the roof right now!!!! My fear of my heart stopping is kicking me in the but!!!!!!!!! Im.so.anxious!!!!!!!!!
Posted 6/29/2013 11:01 AM (GMT 0)
Yea i know ... my anxiety is out the roof right now!!!! My fear of my heart stopping is kicking me in the but!!!!!!!!! Im.so.anxious!!!!!!!!!
Posted 6/29/2013 11:01 AM (GMT 0)
Yea i know ... my anxiety is out the roof right now!!!! My fear of my heart stopping is kicking me in the but!!!!!!!!! Im.so.anxious!!!!!!!!!
Posted 6/29/2013 11:10 AM (GMT 0)
Believe me when I say I know how you feel. I KNOW all too well how it feels to be hyper-vigilant of your own breathing and to constantly try to analyze it and look for disturbances or anything at all to make you think that something is seriously wrong. I can't tell you how many times I thought I would suffocate or stop breathing only to realize that I've let my cruel and relentlessness anxiety FOOL me again. It's all a TRICK.
Posted 6/29/2013 11:15 AM (GMT 0)
Its a evil trick!!!! :( finally got my breathing normal!!! Now to get the fear of my heart stopping under control!!! I have severe cardiophobia :(
Posted 6/29/2013 11:21 AM (GMT 0)
It is an evil trick, but a trick nonetheless. Your anxiety CANNOT and WILL NOT harm you physically. We are all doing this to ourselves by falling for the same trick over and over again without realizing it. The way to defeat the trick is not to fight the panic but to let it happen and challenge it. Show your panic who is in charge; show your panic that you do NOT fear it. Our fear feeds the anxiety and the panic like gas on a fire. Once we deny the anxiety our fear, it will slowly but surely die out. Be confident that what you have is nothing BUT anxiety and that anxiety tricks you into thinking that you are in danger when the reality is you're only in discomfort.
Posted 6/29/2013 12:53 PM (GMT 0)
Maybe you should post to your wall your normal ECG/EKG results to help lessen your fear. I asked several heart doctors I know if some heart diseases can't be detected in ECG exams and said that most heart problems especially the severe ones can easily be detected by it. My dad doesn't have a normal ECG ever since he got a heart attack. Even now his result will not come back normal, but guess what, he lives life more normally than I do who worries all over my health most of the time. He admitted he became afraid when he got a heart attack but chose to live the rest of his life not rehearsing it everyday. Maybe we should put deep within our subconscious that we actually have panic attacks instead of heart attacks which can't kill us and that we should also decide to live life like those people who actually experienced a REAL heart attack. It takes time to deal with fear but we should always remember that fear doesn't really exist and there will come a time when we'll be able to overcome it completely.
Posted 6/29/2013 9:26 PM (GMT 0)
Now you are on to something that gives some relief, it takes awhile to adjust to the thought process
that our subconscious panic/anxiety is not a real thing except for the symptoms, these aren't even like
a real HA, "trust me on this" Once you face down the fear of death it starts to lose some of its power
over us, these attacks have only one source of power thats our own fear of death! nothing else. Peace

Larry ***
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