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PeanutsauntieP1982 · 41-45, F
When I get to that point, I try to get somewhere as quiet and private as I can find. If nothing is avaliable, I do the same thing I'd've done if I'd found a place… I close my eyes and focus on my breathing.
If there is one very important thing I've learned about dealing with anxiety, it is that often in panic, breathing becomes faster and shallower, which intensifies that "help-can't-breathe-the-walls-are-closing-in" panic, intensifying the attact.
By shutting your eyes, you're cutting out unneeded visual stimuli, and that helps your brain focus better.
You close your eyes, and as you are breathing (in or out), noticed which one you are doing, and think; "I am breathing ____. As you continue to breath, notice that as you consciously slow the "I am breathing in, I am breathing out" thoughts, your breathing is slowing, and the walls are expanding away from you. Keep your eyes closed til your breathing in normal, give yourself a mental " atta girl", and a pat on the back, then open your eyes.
I used to have horrendous flashbacks from a surgery I woke during. They were every minute of every hour of every day for over a year and a half. I tried to kill myself. I couldn't even sleep, the flashbacks would play as nightmares every night for over three years.
Sometime during year three after my awful surgery (2010), I decieded that my PTSD didn't have me, I had it. I controlled it, not the other way around. So I read everything I could about PTSD, and anxiety disorders in general. I took classes to help me learn to cope, and that's not all I got out of it, but it'd take far too long to tap it out letter by letter on this tiny iPod screen.
If there is one very important thing I've learned about dealing with anxiety, it is that often in panic, breathing becomes faster and shallower, which intensifies that "help-can't-breathe-the-walls-are-closing-in" panic, intensifying the attact.
By shutting your eyes, you're cutting out unneeded visual stimuli, and that helps your brain focus better.
You close your eyes, and as you are breathing (in or out), noticed which one you are doing, and think; "I am breathing ____. As you continue to breath, notice that as you consciously slow the "I am breathing in, I am breathing out" thoughts, your breathing is slowing, and the walls are expanding away from you. Keep your eyes closed til your breathing in normal, give yourself a mental " atta girl", and a pat on the back, then open your eyes.
I used to have horrendous flashbacks from a surgery I woke during. They were every minute of every hour of every day for over a year and a half. I tried to kill myself. I couldn't even sleep, the flashbacks would play as nightmares every night for over three years.
Sometime during year three after my awful surgery (2010), I decieded that my PTSD didn't have me, I had it. I controlled it, not the other way around. So I read everything I could about PTSD, and anxiety disorders in general. I took classes to help me learn to cope, and that's not all I got out of it, but it'd take far too long to tap it out letter by letter on this tiny iPod screen.
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UserNameSW · 46-50, M
I never have but my daughter does.
rokrchik1211 · 31-35, F
@pinkrainbowkisses how does she deal with it?