Anxiety or panic attacks?
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I am a strong believer in talking it out. When you are upset, tell someone. Also, the words in which you frame your upset are important. "I do not feel well right now" is so much better on your nerves than "I am feeling anxiety right now." In other words, I have learned to frame feeling "off" in less alarming words. I haven't been bothered by anxiety for a long time. I stopped eating potato chips before going to bed and I cut back on my coffee intake to lower my caffeine threshold. Apparently that was part of it, because the anxiety went right away. I was responding to what I had eaten, so my anxious feelings were diet related. Take note of what you ate the night before when you have anxiety the next morning. Reaching out and telling other people about your feelings will help to dilute them. When we keep this stuff all pent up inside us, it festers and gets worse. Dialoguing with other people helps to diffuse the effect it is having on us. Often, someone will tell you he understands because he has experienced it himself, and when you hear this you will immediately relax a lot. You will not feel so isolated. Anxiety means we lose control, and that is what is so unsettling. Getting back in control again does worlds of good for losing the anxiety.
There was a man in the parking lot at our favourite restaurant and he collapsed right near his family (wife and small child) and was having an awful time. I ran over to him and sat down beside him and told him it was all right. I told him he was perfectly all right and it was okay to relax and let go of it. He looked at me and began to really relax because he knew I was telling the truth, but having his feelings (which were raging out of control) VALIDATED by a total stranger - "I know this territory" - calmed him right down. He began to cry, which is another great release that works instantly in neutralizing anxiety. The isolation anxiety can cause is what is so upsetting. You feel like you're in a little tiny boat in a great big ocean. I just sat there with him on the gravel of the big parking lot until the episode passed. We got up and we shook hands and he got in the car and off they went. Tourists, visiting from "away," and undoubtedly the new terrain or experience was a bit stressful for the head of the family, &c. What amazed me was how quickly his anxiety left him when someone VALIDATED (told him it was perfectly okay to be completely upset the way he was) his feelings while he was having them. I, in effect, told him those feelings might upset him, but they didn't upset me. So I would sit with him and calm him down until they went away. Fear. Awful stuff. It is good to have a friend when we are scared. It has no respect for age - anyone can know fear. It can come as an "ambush" (out of a sound sleep, yet) to you at three in the morning. You find ways to take back your personal power and the one thing that stays with me is what Bob told me recently, "Chris, please remember you do not have to participate in every feeling you may be having. You can choose to feel some different way entirely. Knowing that got me through Vietnam." That goes especially strong for anxiety. When it tries to push you around, you can push back by consciously selecting the mood you want to be and then do everything that is needed to establish that mood instead of sitting there being victimized by your current feelings. It is okay to push back and get back in control of what you are feeling. I usually talk to myself and say, "Well, no. (Talking slowly...) I don't care to feel upset right now... I think I would rather feel... centered... happy... calm... rested... time to go downstairs and have breakfast, instead." A social worker once told me you can quickly reduce anxiety you are feeling by talking out loud to yourself in the lowest and slowest (real basso profundo) voice you can manage. I tried it once, and by gosh, it actually works! Talking slowly also slows down everything else you are feeling - ESPECIALLY anxiety. The thing most people do when they are anxious is to speed up, so you can see how deliberately slowing everything d-o-w-n. would have the effect of slowing down your anxiety, also.
Could be either or. A panic attack is an intense paniky feeling that only lasts a short time. Maybe for 15- 30 minutes but hardly ever for more than an hour. It is not un common to have both at the same time.
THIS IS JUST STREES TRUST ME I HAVE PROBLEMS WIT ANXEITY AND PANIC ATTACKS U WILL KNWO IF U HAVE 1 BY U WILL START BREATHING REAL FAST AND THEN U WILL GET DWOUSY AND START HYPERVENTALATING
could be either, depends on your general health age etc. maybe see you doctor and have a medical.
sometimes you just have to ride them out. I hate them but I have learned to breath deeply when anxiety hits in order to avoid the atacks. good luck.
Picture yourself feeling nervous because you have to speak in front of a large audience. You have butterflies in your stomach, you may feel nauseous, your heart is beating fast, your may feel sweaty, your hands may be trembling, your may feel unreal. Now take that feeling and magnify it by 10 and that is what an anxiety attack feels like.
i have had all of the above, anxiety is terrible but you can fight it.my daughter died of meningitis 11 years ago at the tender age of 3.2 years later i got anxiety and panic atacks.i thought i was getting a heart attack.but there is light at the end of the tunnel,,when it happens to you, keep telling yourself its only anxiety and it will pass.i know that sounds corney but it will work.talk to yor doctor,he or she will help you cope with this problem.good luck to you.it will work out.i promise you.
Yes it's a bit of Stress/ Panic /Anxiety they are all related try not to worry because it's worrying that feeds them. Go to your Doctor and he / she will prescribe something mild for you.
You are not alone it's a very stressful world today. No matter how old you are.
Go to the Doc and get it sorted out.
Cheers and Good Luck.
ive suffered the same i was in hospital 3 times my heart was poundingi had pains in my chest my left arm also. I used to think i was going to die from a heart attack or sudden death sindrome, but its all in your head. I used to smoke hash and when i gave it up i stopped having them as much, excercise helps alot, i was on tablets called zeneks also but they made me to sleepy, i found the best thing was to keep fit and cut down on the drink... and relaxing is the most important thing. if your having one breath deep breaths and hold em, and think of something else.
or breath in a paper bag
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