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I'm a student in college and i need advice to help overcome my anxiety and panic attacks. From as far back as i can remember i always had no problems with anxiety and i was confident etc.. but a couple years ago i suffered from what i think was an anxiety attack, i got really hot and sweaty, lightheaded and embaressed because of this. Since then i frequently get the same 'attacks' when in social, or awkward situations. I only seem to get these attacks when, for example, i have to present something to the rest of the class, or if i sit near the front of the class so that everyone can see me or even in some cases, when a teacher asks me a question. I also, i seem to suffer from these attacks when i am hot (if the temperate of the classroom is stuffy and warm) i try my hardest to keep myself cool by drinking cold water, breathing deeply and trying to keep my mind off these attacks but my constant fear of potentially having one makes me more anxious. if anyone can relate to this and possibly give me advise as to what i can do to overcome this, it would be greatly appreciated. thanks.
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crashing_waves miles42775
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miles42775 crashing_waves
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matthutchings miles42775
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I hope you're well mate.Â
Although your Anxeity is related to something different to mine, I think they probably manifest in the same way.
I have greatly improved, although not flat out cured, the frequency and severity of my anxeity by trying to do thing very thing that I most wanted to avoid. I quite simply put myself in the worst situation I could thing of. The thing that I felt would be my absolute worst nightmare.... I just went and did it. And you know what happened? Nothing. I was scared out of my wits and a fear times I was physically sick a couple of time. You know what the worst thing about the situation was? The anxiety itself. And most definetly not what I was actually worrying about. Which of course, never actually happens.
The point being, if you let yourself go and jump into the deepest of deep ends, eventually (and it doesn't happen overnight of course) you will learn than whatever it is your most afraid of, it probably isn't that bad.
Have self believe and know that your anxeity is not a part of you or how you think. And you will be independant of it, or at very least to a degree you can comforatble deal with it.
miles42775 matthutchings
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matthutchings miles42775
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Even more reason to concour it, my friend. I know it is very hard, and I am only expressing the means by which I have help myself which is of course to be taken with a pinch of salt. Everyone is different right.
However!!!.....
Everything after 'its just' in your reply is you justifying why it is hard, or why you wouldn't want to face the fears that you have. For me personally, it has been really important to notice when my anxeity takes over my mind set. Build up your courage, all of your motivation and be the bravest person you can be and kindly suggest to all of those thoughts to **** off! Tough love from you to your anxeity sort of thing!
I'm sure everyone here is wildly aware that what you're going through is hard and not in any way comfortable, but the most important point is... none of that matters and it certainly isn't going to help.
Good luck my friend. I wish you all the best :D
matthutchings miles42775
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Even more reason to concour it, my friend. I know it is very hard, and I am only expressing the means by which I have help myself which is of course to be taken with a pinch of salt. Everyone is different right.
However!!!.....
Everything after 'its just' in your reply is you justifying why it is hard, or why you wouldn't want to face the fears that you have. For me personally, it has been really important to notice when my anxeity takes over my mind set. Build up your courage, all of your motivation and be the bravest person you can be and kindly suggest to all of those thoughts to **** off! Tough love from you to your anxeity sort of thing!
I'm sure everyone here is wildly aware that what you're going through is hard and not in any way comfortable, but the most important point is... none of that matters and it certainly isn't going to help.
Good luck my friend. I wish you all the best :D
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