Excessive Deep breath taking/yawing/sighing

I’ve been have the need to take a deep breath every 30 seconds or so for around a month. I don’t know what the cause is exactly and how to even figure it out as doctors apperently don’t know what’s truly happening here and I don’t want to take depression or anxiety meds since I don’t struggle from either one. I’m not sure what to do. I’ve dealt with some strange mental malfunction before that was associated with my breathing a few years ago and the doctors gave me an inhaler which didn’t do anything. (My problem was that it felt like breathing was harder, almost like I was breathing through a mask) but I soon realized after dealing with the breathing problem that it was all in my head and what had sparked the issue was me getting sick. Having respiratory issues associated with the sickness (just a bad cold) caused me to believe that I was having trouble breathing and me not having any sort of problem like this before really freaked me out. But in the long run, today, I’m okay and I know how to fight that battle. BUT TODAYS BATTLE is trying not to take deep breaths like a nut job every 5 seconds. I’ve figured out that this is as well just a mental malfunction and my brain is telling my lungs to expand as much as they can at the fastest rate. Which is hard to control since this is a nerve that’s triggered, just like when you’ve watched someone yawn, you then too yawn. (Which I believe is a human instinct in which helps our internal clocks stay correct, when someone else yawns and you see them your brain is likely assuming that it’s time to get to sleep which in return tell you to do the same. Again that’s a theory) I can’t control it. It’s driving me nuts. If I take too many deep breaths in a short amount of time then my attempt to take a deep breath will literally fail and I will feel then like I cannot breath, which I’m assuming is now a congnitive standard im which my body somehow developed and now I’m essentially addicted to taking deep breaths because of the “satisfaction” I get of completeling one. Because I do also get a good amount of joy when I do complete a deep breath, but when I do it too much then my lungs will overinflated and literally will not expand any further causing my deep breath to fail and give me anxietyabout me not being able to breath.

Now my situation has been projected, let’s see what the power of not yet 1 brain can figure out, but the power of multiple brains.

PS, I do vape, I’ve decided to quit TODAY as another theory of mine may be that the vapor is burning my lungs and the damage is causing some sort of malfunction or healing process that needs it’s time to return back to normal. I workout regularly, well I’m fairly not passionate about it as I do personal training so I wouldn’t say that’s the problem. I also don’t consume caffeine. Or at least I stopped once this started. Let me know if anyone’s heard of nicotine overdose causing excessive because apperently that’s a thing and that’s another reason for why I’ve stopped.

Thanks to everyone, hope I get some reply’s.

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