Anxiety attacks....how do you cope? | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 760012 United States 09/04/2009 08:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Do you suffer from anxiety? I am like scared to death of everything. Scared of living, scared of dying, scared to go out, scared to stay in, need to be around other humans...then get overwhelmed quickly when I am....I'm bored yet living on the edge of my seat...frantic for no reason....tired of being scared all the time... Quoting: ~~**Nightfall**~~I read GLP and have had severe panic attacks in the past... what do you do to cope? Do you have this too? You have all of that and kids? Damn! |
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~~**Nightfall**~~ (OP) User ID: 200257 Canada 09/04/2009 08:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Drink a lot of water - it helps 99% of my anxiety attack problems. I self diagnosed myself as being dehydrated. I helped a friend with this advice too; he thought he was about to have a heart attack all the time. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 751533thank you. I am always thinking I am going to have a heart attack. I think about this so much that I actually feel chest pains and stuff. Freaky.. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 751533 United States 09/04/2009 08:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Yeah me too. It usually is around 2am...I'll wake up with a racing heart and all the sudden the panic sets in. I'll drink a tall glass of cold water and lay down and after about 10 minutes I feel it slow down. Then I drink another. Usually after 3 glasses it gets better and after about an hour it goes away. |
jnchisox1 User ID: 753668 United States 09/04/2009 08:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Yeah me too. It usually is around 2am...I'll wake up with a racing heart and all the sudden the panic sets in. I'll drink a tall glass of cold water and lay down and after about 10 minutes I feel it slow down. Then I drink another. Usually after 3 glasses it gets better and after about an hour it goes away. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 751533that sounds like a symptom of substance abuse withdrawal. |
nicole User ID: 753902 United States 09/04/2009 08:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | tryptophan "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." -Thomas Jefferson [email protected] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 751533 United States 09/04/2009 08:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Yeah me too. It usually is around 2am...I'll wake up with a racing heart and all the sudden the panic sets in. I'll drink a tall glass of cold water and lay down and after about 10 minutes I feel it slow down. Then I drink another. Usually after 3 glasses it gets better and after about an hour it goes away. Quoting: jnchisox1that sounds like a symptom of substance abuse withdrawal. No substances but some nights I go to bed thinking too much about problems. |
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LoTech User ID: 748673 United States 09/04/2009 08:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Drink a lot of water - it helps 99% of my anxiety attack problems. I self diagnosed myself as being dehydrated. I helped a friend with this advice too; he thought he was about to have a heart attack all the time. Quoting: ~~**Nightfall**~~thank you. I am always thinking I am going to have a heart attack. I think about this so much that I actually feel chest pains and stuff. Freaky.. Ok, before I suggest anything, how hard would it be for you to make some changes like, say, never reading GLP again? |
ConerTheStoner User ID: 756791 United Kingdom 09/04/2009 08:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Surely it shouldn't be about coping, it should be about finding the source(s) of your anxiety, and what triggers the attacks and working through it? As for coping... when things get tough for me for what ever reason, I like to close my eyes, breath in deep and slow, breath out slow and evenly, drop my thoughts... let go of it all and just rest. Let it all pass over and when you come back round you look at it fairly, not being impulsive because of your intense emotions, but in a clear headed state. Peace i'm going to troll you the fuck down with a great big hammer and the only way you can stop me is with sexual favours.... only joking, god forbid someone like me mixes in with your gene pool. |
Ricfly52 User ID: 272605 United States 09/04/2009 08:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Might not hurt to have an ekg, and CT scan if you have the means. Fishing and skiing keeps me a little sane. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 62398 United States 09/04/2009 08:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Do you suffer from anxiety? I am like scared to death of everything. Scared of living, scared of dying, scared to go out, scared to stay in, need to be around other humans...then get overwhelmed quickly when I am....I'm bored yet living on the edge of my seat...frantic for no reason....tired of being scared all the time... Quoting: ~~**Nightfall**~~I read GLP and have had severe panic attacks in the past... what do you do to cope? Do you have this too? Looking for a claim??? :flouch: |
jnchisox1 User ID: 753668 United States 09/04/2009 08:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Yeah me too. It usually is around 2am...I'll wake up with a racing heart and all the sudden the panic sets in. I'll drink a tall glass of cold water and lay down and after about 10 minutes I feel it slow down. Then I drink another. Usually after 3 glasses it gets better and after about an hour it goes away. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 751533that sounds like a symptom of substance abuse withdrawal. No substances but some nights I go to bed thinking too much about problems. ok, i only say that because on the nights i don't drink alcohol, i wake up once during the night and hallucinate for the first few seconds of the transition from sleep to awake, this causes me to have a big shock to my system and an extreme panic attack, i have to get up and turn the lights on to collect my bearings. |
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ConerTheStoner User ID: 756791 United Kingdom 09/04/2009 08:49 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Yeah me too. It usually is around 2am...I'll wake up with a racing heart and all the sudden the panic sets in. I'll drink a tall glass of cold water and lay down and after about 10 minutes I feel it slow down. Then I drink another. Usually after 3 glasses it gets better and after about an hour it goes away. Quoting: jnchisox1that sounds like a symptom of substance abuse withdrawal. No substances but some nights I go to bed thinking too much about problems. ok, i only say that because on the nights i don't drink alcohol, i wake up once during the night and hallucinate for the first few seconds of the transition from sleep to awake, this causes me to have a big shock to my system and an extreme panic attack, i have to get up and turn the lights on to collect my bearings. Hypnogogia? I sometimes wake up and see/feel things. The other night I watched a spider climb down a strand of web and eventually drop on my face. I think it was subjective because I first just thought I saw it, then kinda led it on... But I even felt it fall on my face, hard thud for a small spider, as if expecting it to happen made it worse. excuse the rant xD i'm going to troll you the fuck down with a great big hammer and the only way you can stop me is with sexual favours.... only joking, god forbid someone like me mixes in with your gene pool. |
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ConerTheStoner User ID: 756791 United Kingdom 09/04/2009 08:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | jog until you're exhausted gasping for air cant spit away the thick phlegm and are feeling the burn, you'll forget what you were worried about Quoting: Anonymous Coward 763330There's an even more subtle but amazing shift that takes place too ;) i'm going to troll you the fuck down with a great big hammer and the only way you can stop me is with sexual favours.... only joking, god forbid someone like me mixes in with your gene pool. |
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snark Forum Administrator User ID: 752829 United States 09/04/2009 08:55 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Prayer. Deep breathing. Chamomile tea. Counting my blessings. All are acts of the will. If the panic/anxiety is really, really bad...5mg valium. T For Texas, T For Tennessee! The virtue of courage is a prerequisite for the practice of all other virtues, because otherwise one is virtuous only when virtue has no cost. There are times when something needs to be done, and yet we know that if we step up and do this needful thing, we will pay a heavy personal price. -C.S. Lewis |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 759564 United States 09/04/2009 09:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I have anxiety disorder--OCD, panic attacks, generalized anxiety, the whole nine. Panic attacks SUCK! But you aren't having a heart attack. I just have to sit with them and deal with them OR distract myself with something that uses my brain, like a puzzle or game. I also have a low dose xanax to take at night (mine hit at night and sometime right out of sleep to panic.) The important thing is THEY ARE SELF-LIMITING. They go away in ten minutes or so. Distract yourself, splash cold water, get a drink, whatever. You CAN deal with them. Yes they are horrible, but you don't have to live in fear of them--that makes it worse. |
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