My story and help measures

So here’s my story. My anxiety started about 4 years ago, it came unexpectedly and felt like a sharp pain across my chest, so I was rushed to hospital and everything was fine, this happened again a few days later and that is where I was told I had anxiety.

This took me so long to believe because my everyday life is generally good and I have no money, work or family issues so could not understand how I possibly could have anxiety.

Then I realised what I have and its every time things change around or within my body my body tries to tell my brain something is wrong so my brain then has to tell my body to stop as there is nothing wrong and they seem to battle with each other until I can control both and make it stop.

Sounds weird but that’s the best way I can explain it, I get many triggers like needing to make a bowel movement, because when you have a BM your blood pressure naturally raises slightly and instead of my body saying you need to go it panics instead until my mind can tell it what’s really happening.

A big thing I have found is my body controls it all and I need to tell it that everything is ok.

One of my best ways to help with this: At home lay on a bed with thunder and rain video playing in the background and that can usually take your mind away from everything. Or if I’m at work or out and about and feel one about to start I will tell my body off and repeatedly say nothing is wrong until it calms itself down.

Well that’s my story and I hope that maybe one of my control measures may help others.

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