anxiety / panic attacks

thebuddhalifts · 2014-10-30T13:29:06+00:00

Breathing won't solve this further than relieving some temporary symptoms. The thing that will help you is experience. Go out there and do something makes you feel alive/good/in love. As apposed to sitting at home being heartbroken/anxious.

LS_D · 2014-10-30T11:33:21+00:00

learn to breath properly, diagphragmatic breathing, it will change your world (meditation too)

cold showers after hot showers rock

Last but not least, diet, what's it like? lots of coffee? junk food? You are what you eat, and if you don't give your body what it needs, it cant make you operate at your best ... get onto it!

btw CBT aka Cognitive Behavioral Therapy works really well, very worth checking out, you can do it on yourself but it helps to get someone who understands it to explain how

Johnny10toes · 2014-10-30T13:16:26+00:00

One thing I found that helps with a fear that I have is focusing on the feeling I'll have once I do it.

In my example it's climbing poles. It's not the height because I could work the same pole from the bucket. It's not about the danger because when doing hot work I go into it with both feet and it's far more hazardous to do. It is a weird fear. As a kid I climbed the shit out of trees. With poles I'd almost freeze up. So focusing on the triumph at the end I would be able to do it. All the fears were unfounded. I'd done it hundreds of times. So by remembering I'd be OK I started working better at it. Then gained confidence.

With social anxiety I have it but it's not that gripping. I work through it by observing myself and telling myself to relax. I am just trying this though.

animalpoo · 2014-10-30T15:33:05+00:00

With anxiety and panic attacks you need to frame it in a specific way to stop them from happening. I framed it as " the world is my gym and I'm playing life on expert mode". Basically you need to view each time you feel anxious or an anxiety attack as an opportunity to overcome it, strengthen yourself and build your resilience. If you keep up with this mentality you'll eventually become anxiety free to a degree. Everytime you feel anxious focus on what's going on around you e.g. There's a red car, driving slowly. There's a yellow bungalow, there's another car, grey rusting lamppost etc ( this keeps your mind occupied ) stay on track don't think to yourself " is this working ? "Just keep doing it and you'll be home free eventually. Another thing to do is reframe your anxiety from worry and nervousness to excitement as it is the exact same internal feeling you get when you're excited, it's all dependent on how you label that feeling.

favours_of_the_moon · 2014-10-30T21:01:09+00:00

Try something like An Shen Bu Xin wan. Nourish blood and heart yin, downbear qi.

blahbergstein · 2014-10-31T00:03:58+00:00

I think medicine is a short term fix and i think i can self-therapy.

Don't fear medicine. The thing is that they are meant to be short term fixes. It takes both you and the doctors for it to work that way. The whole point is to no longer need it - and that takes both medication to kick start the process and behavioural changes to make the process stick.

See a shrink. Even if you don't think you'll want to stick to it, you don't want to close your options because it isn't "manly".

Title	anxiety / panic attacks
Author	downxcv
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Date	October 30, 2014 10:56 AM UTC (11 years ago)
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