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Posted 6/4/2015 5:44 AM (GMT 0)
Well today has been difficult. I woke up feeling fine other than a knee injury and was all ready to get work done and be happy but then out of nowhere i get anxious. It wasnt super bad at first, i managed to surpress it till around 7 tonight where i rushed myself to my therapist due to an anxiety attack that i couldnt control. After being reasured that i wasnt having a heart attack (I thought this again due to some new symptoms like back pain) I left mostly okay but the anxiety came back around and hour later and i had a full blown shaking crying attack. This helped ease my mind about the heart attack but i still feel just drained and my chest feels like there's a giant weight on it, and i still have the back pain. Currently I'm afraid that im going to have a heart attack when im sleeping and im never going to wake up. I get random spikes of pain on my chest and then i get fearful. Mindfulness isnt exactly working for me right now but i think im calming down a bit. Currently unclear if my back pain is from my god awful posture and being hunched over (which is probably the cause) or its a new symptom that i shouldn't ignore.
Posted 6/4/2015 8:01 AM (GMT 0)
Hello Aceius,
Did you write this or did I? =P I tend to suppress my anxiety sometimes to where its so bad I'm unable to sleep and second guess EVERYTHING. It sounds to me like this is nothing but anxiety, which can play awful tricks on you and your mind. I also had back pain when my anxiety was horrible, and it went away when my anxiety got a little better, but being someone with GAD, that took a LONG time to achieve. Posture is EVERYTHING, especially to people like us! You need to stay straight and breath from your diaphragm constantly, we need more oxygen in our blood, if we don't it only makes our anxiety worse. Mindfulness I know sometimes feels like its not helping, but the whole point of mindfulness is patience and relaxing, something us people with anxiety lack tremendously. Give it another try, and NEVER stop trying, only when you stop trying do you lose.
Prayers for you and your recovery,
-Kelly
Posted 6/4/2015 8:30 AM (GMT 0)
Hi

How are you feeling today?

Anxiety can cause all sorts of symptoms both physical and mental including the symptoms you mentioned it can also make any pain you have feel much worse than it actually is. I have a chronic back pain problem and I know if my anxiety is bad my pain gets a lot worse so I do use Mindfulness which i find really helpful but it does take practice so stick with it if you can.

Keep us posted.

Hibee
Posted 6/4/2015 4:53 PM (GMT 0)
I'm sorry you are going thru this, I echo the above advice. Try to give mindfulness another go, it really does help, but like Hibee said it takes practice. I can post some of my favorite videos' for you if you'd like to try again.
Posted 6/4/2015 5:28 PM (GMT 0)
I would love some links to mindfulness videos.
Posted 6/4/2015 5:45 PM (GMT 0)
Great!

This is a short one, just 3 minutes
/www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDflnqo0TQs

These are about 15 minutes.
/www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT_ZvD94_kE

/www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpiw2hH-dlc

You can find more on youtube, just search for mindfulness and you'll get a ton of them.
Posted 6/4/2015 7:22 PM (GMT 0)
Sorry to hear your having a hard time Aceius. I had back pain last summer and was sleeping 1-2 hours a night. I didn't think that was possible to survive on such little sleep-but had insomnia for 2-3 months. I went to my doctor and she sent me to physical therapy. She also prescribed a muscle relaxant. I wish she had given me pain pills because Advil wasn't touching it. Anyway, maybe you need to see your doctor. When you're in that much pain, mindfulness isn't enough.

AngelLisa, Thanks for posting the videos! I did the 1st one and plan to check out the rest later.
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