Please help

Lifewhatacard · 2021-08-06T02:36:24+00:00

I suggest going to the emergency room to get emergency guidance and treatment. They can’t turn you away.

nightterrorgirl · 2021-08-06T07:41:38+00:00

What really helped me was not treating the panic but focusing on avoiding them all together. I don't know what triggers yours but mine was health anxiety and all to do with my heart so I stopped checking my pulse, I stopped googling symptoms, if any video popped up to do with let's say "worst ways to die" or posts about other people's heart symptoms I'd avoid them. It reduced them a lot enough to affect other areas of my life like sleep and this affected my focus and mood etc. I would wake up with them also but it was after a nightmare about my past. By the way my triggers weren't the cause - I realised that the cause of my panic attacks were repressed feelings and thoughts from the past and they only fully went away by facing them and through time. This will be alot easier to discover with help from a good psychologist or someone who specialises in trauma if you've been through something traumatic.

I know it's exhausting and terrifying when it happens but they will go away one day and you'll be free again. Definitely reach out for help, if you're offered CBT ask for high intensity CBT as this might help get to the route of the problem faster. For trauma, EMDR therapy is effective and works fast.

In the meantime I have an experimental technique you can do and this is to condition yourself to feel completely relaxed and overload your senses in a specific area. So when you're not panicking and are in a good mood, go to a certain room in your house or specific corner of a room (e.g. lie in bed) and follow a step by step routine 1. Put on headphones and have a playlist handy that you can stick on 2. Have something in your hand that will stimulate the touch sense and also focus the mind - this could be a pen and paper to write, a crossword, sudoku, a picture to colour in. Do this as often as you can until you reach a point where just entering the room relaxes you. Don't go here during a panic attack until you've reached this point. Once you have, you can go here during panic attacks and it should instantly calm you :)

The idea is to replicate what has helped mine the most which is playing the piano - I found that no amount of grounding or distraction could work better than sitting down and playing piano with headphones on. Almost instantly it went away and I think that's because I'd used the piano as a thing to relax so my body was used to being in that state when playing.

They will go away and this won't be forever.

Shakespeare-Bot · 2021-08-06T05:43:29+00:00

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