How can I deal with sudden anxiety attacks?
My mind is high on OCD road right now. So, is there any way to reduce the anxieties except any medication?
26-30, M
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4meAndyou · F
You have to eliminate ALL caffeine and sugar from your diet to prevent the anxiety attacks. Chocolate, coffee, tea, honey, Mountain Dew, Cola, any soda with caffeine, anything containing sugar. Also be aware that decongestants and many medications can cause anxiety attacks. Read all labels for side effects.
If an anxiety attack starts you can feel it the second it starts. That is when you have to go completely still and concentrate entirely on being calm, and on slow steady deep breathing. You have to go to a mental place where nothing exists except you and your breathing. You can usually stop the attack in its tracks if you do this the second you feel it starts. If you wait even one minute you will not be able to control it.
Be aware also that the very worst thing that could happen to you when you experience an attack is that you might pass out from hyperventilation, and if you do pass out it will "cure" the anxiety attack. Fainting resets the bodies breathing rhythym, so when you wake up the attack will be over.
That being said, if you can't control an attack, place yourself where you can fall or pass out without hitting any furniture or sharp corners.
You might want to see a doctor and get a prescription for Lorazepam in case of an emergency. Lorazepam supposedly ends the attack within 30 minutes. I had such a prescription, but using the methods above, I did not have to take even one pill. Still, it was a reassurance that if I DID really need it I had it right there.
If an anxiety attack starts you can feel it the second it starts. That is when you have to go completely still and concentrate entirely on being calm, and on slow steady deep breathing. You have to go to a mental place where nothing exists except you and your breathing. You can usually stop the attack in its tracks if you do this the second you feel it starts. If you wait even one minute you will not be able to control it.
Be aware also that the very worst thing that could happen to you when you experience an attack is that you might pass out from hyperventilation, and if you do pass out it will "cure" the anxiety attack. Fainting resets the bodies breathing rhythym, so when you wake up the attack will be over.
That being said, if you can't control an attack, place yourself where you can fall or pass out without hitting any furniture or sharp corners.
You might want to see a doctor and get a prescription for Lorazepam in case of an emergency. Lorazepam supposedly ends the attack within 30 minutes. I had such a prescription, but using the methods above, I did not have to take even one pill. Still, it was a reassurance that if I DID really need it I had it right there.
Disturbed12 · 26-30, M
@4meAndyou Thank you for elaborately describe the things to do and what not to do. I can really give up sugar intake, good to know there is something to do. I also don't pass out from anxiety attacks. I often have anxieties attacking with illogical thoughts in my mind (what if this happen, what if I'm wrong, what if people see me as fraud, what if I leave the stove on and something terrible happen? ... This types of thought which actually almost never happens but my mind still get anxious about the consequences). I do get panic attack sometimes, which are not related (or could be related) to them. In a completely dark room, or when my eyes are tied with something, I have panic attacks). These don't happen often. BUT anxieties attack me every day. I often get the feeling that I don't know what a normal life looks like, because this crippling anxiety never leaves me and never lets me to enjoy true happiness 😪