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Anxiety/panic attack tips.

I managed to relax totally for the 1st time in months a few days ago (I didn't realise, but I hadn't been totally relaxed when I thought I was whilst doing my relaxation thing!).

It was a strange feeling - I spent a while trying to relax and then all of a sudden I got a strange feeling (I was worried at 1st, but then realised it was my body/mind being totally relaxed (no tightness in chest etc that I'd taken for granted/as the norm the last few months!)).

I haven't managed to do it again for a couple of days, but I've just tried it and am now totally relaxed again.

I've also tried a tip from my relaxation class to try thinking about something that pisses me off for a while (not to bring the anxiety up too high) and then relax to bring it down again - I've managed to do that a few times and I guess it strengthens the mind to hopefully bring it down for good.

Hope this might help anybody out there that may have thought they were relaxed, but really they were not - keep trying.
 
Any one care to elaborate on which drugs wont cause anxiety attacks in anxiety attack prone people? Like alcohol... does it induce anxiety attacks?
 
Alcohol does the day after because of the sugar content. I am thinking that probably opiates won't cause attacks, all stimulants and hallucinogens are well known to cause anxiety attacks or worse panic attacks.
 
first of all panic attacks are not "in your head". it has a
physical basis as well. its a adrenaline response that
gets your body ready "for action" when there is
no action to get ready for.

panic attacks is down to breathing. i noticed that mine
always came on when i started breathing abnormally.
i.e on a rush hour train, i never noticed at the time but
because i was in a uncomfortable situation i started
taking more shallow breaths and this provoked a panic
attack in me. Also sitting at the computer screen working
ojn my uni stuff used to get me stessed out and started
them and i realised i wasnt breathing properly when i
was sitting programming and researching. but i havent
had a single attack in 8 months now that i have started
to take a focus on my breathing pattern. I also stopped
drinking coffee which i believe has had a effect. I still
eat chocolate for scotland though.
 
and also i tried st johns wort for a few months and it
never worked. i then took 5-HTP at night whilst i was
on my course of st johns wort. i was lying in bed
watching tv the i switched the light off to try and sleep
and i felt myself come up as if i had took a sweetie
but it was a real bad feeling. i was tripping and could
see colours and shape and getting quite strong close
eye visuals. I then spent 2 hours running in and out
of the toilet throwing up bile. and then lying in a ball
on my bed in a cold sweat hugging my sheets.
some research the next
day showed that you should not mix the two and doing
so can bring on seratonin syndrome. Was an experience
i do not want to go through again.
 
I find mine comes on even if I've been/start breathing properly.

Sometimes I just get the overwhelming fear that something bad is going to happen (like thinking my heart is pounding when I was taking some anti-biotics) or that I am going mad.

I think it's the panic/anxiety attack that brings on the short breaths (like when you have a near car accident and your body tenses up/become short of breath).
 
My Panic Attacks sure as hell aren't only in my head, though I can usally stop one if I catch it in time. Also, a Panic Attack doesen't just effect you when you're having it (or "the peak" of the Panic Attack, as some would see it) but it can cause complications for hours. I've been having one for around twenty minutes now, and i'm just sitting at my computer doing nothing. I only have crippling Attacks at high stress jobs, or sometimes when i'm driving.

To be honest I find Xanax to be the king of medications for this problem, simply because it is scripted to me, and it still works even if I have eaten. Sure, it would be a lot better to take a few swigs of GBL or GHB and kill the attack right then and there, but the legal issues are almost as complicated as the euphoria issues.

Not to mention I see GBL/GHB being even MORE addictive used in that manner than Xanax, and the WD's from steady GBL use made me think I was dying from migraine. Xanax WD's simply make me feel very nervous and have breathing complications.
 
Hard Trance said:
I managed to relax totally for the 1st time in months a few days ago (I didn't realise, but I hadn't been totally relaxed when I thought I was whilst doing my relaxation thing!).

It was a strange feeling - I spent a while trying to relax and then all of a sudden I got a strange feeling (I was worried at 1st, but then realised it was my body/mind being totally relaxed (no tightness in chest etc that I'd taken for granted/as the norm the last few months!)).
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Which technique did you use to get relaxed? Don't leave us without telling it :D !
 
Which technique did you use to get relaxed? Don't leave us without telling it !

Hi there,

I managed to get there with a technique I learnt from my relaxation class.

I managed to get there eventually by just relaxing on the bed, realising the tension in my body in diffrent places (such as the sholders, hands, legs etc) and then relax them through my mind until I was totally there and I could not feel any tension in any part of my body. After a few mins of this my whole body seemed to go "click"! It was the strangest feeling (guess it was how I was before all my anxiety etc started).

I had to go to several relaxation classes before I learnt this technique - it started off with just tensing parts of the body for a few secs and then relaxing and realising the tension had gone, then moved on to feeling the tension in the area before I tensed the parts and then just doing it without tensing.

It took a long while, but I eventually got there. I think that when she was asking me if I was totally relaxed in the past I was not realy there.

Good luck.
 
I'm 100% sure most of (if not all) is in my head, as it gets a lot worse (even when it hasn't been there at all) on stressful days.

I've had major anxiety coming up for stressful dates, such as a year from my dads death, his 1st birthday since his death and also a year on from his funeral!

I didn't get any anxiety until a few days before his birthday and it's been coming and going since. I belive it is a mental illness with me, because if it was physical it would have slowly built up (getting them more and more often/getting worse) and not instantly.
 
One pill of diazapam stoped all my panic-anxiety attacks for good but occiasionall use of xanax on stressfull days brough the general anxiety and made me even more stressed. also i found hypericin and SSRI totally useless.
Valerian works wanders it puts me in a very happy mood so that i want to go out and take drugs again.
im still waiting to see a psychologist because only they can eleminate it for good.
 
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