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Hi everyone. So yesterday I posted on here about how deep breathing and relaxing and focusing on breathing can relieve anxiety due to oxygen levels etc etc. I seem to be improving on defeating panic attacks with this method/technique. However, It seems that during the day in general I don't breathe properly. It's like I don't have a routine in my breathing anymore and my body now automatically hyperventilates and I don't know ho o stop this? I've tried tuning in on my breathing and then breathing properly, thn I instantly don't feel anxious anymore. But in general when I'm not paying attention to my breathing and I'm just readding a book and start to feel anxious - how do I switch my breathing around and get into the habit of breathing normally?
Hope everyone's doing good x
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louise1974 anonymousgirl21
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This is one of the problems I had before I started on meds. I had kind of dealt with the panic attacks when they came, started out severe but after a while I learned to deep breath through them and they would die down, but not the anxiety. The only way to combat it is to not be anxous. For me I tried 6 months non stop to do this on my own, and had a therapist also. Despite all this I was steadily getting worse. My therapist said it was what they call a biochemical reaction, when your body just goes into meltdown. I was getting light headed and hungry all the time and shaking, had no energy etc, what started off as not ever day anxiety led onto every single day, every walking moment and sometimes evenings too.
The only thing you can do is take time out to de stress yourself, take baths, for me walking was a godsend. Practice deep breathing etc. I tried all that I did my very best but I'm on Citalopram now and I'm doing fantastic.
shel87 anonymousgirl21
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anonymousgirl21 shel87
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I automatically hyperventilate whenever I feel a little uneasy now though which makes me feel worse. So I have to focus on my breathing to feel better and it's hard, but it could become a new skill I suppose.
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