Severe anxiety, please help me?!


Question: Severe anxiety, please help me?
I feel like I'm on the verge of an anxiety attack. How can I stop this before it starts? Please help me, I don't want to go through this again

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I have the same problem. You need to take deep breathes and drink water. distract yourself. play a game or watch tv to distract yourself. maybe you should go see a doctor. i did and they prescribed me Adivan, it's a medication that you just take when you are on the verge of an anxiety attack or have already started to gave an anxiety attack. it helps a lot.



Yawn, and stretch, whether you need to or not. Do it now. Then yawn again, and again, every 5 minutes. Put your hand on your pulse points, wrists, neck, throat, heart, and feel the beating. Put your hands over your ears, like in the Scream picture, and listen to the sea-like noise. Put your hands over your closed eyes and look at the patterns.



When you are triggered the best thing to try and do is ground yourself by doing activities such as the ones on this list:

1. breathe slowly and deeply. In for 5 seconds. Hold for 5 seconds. Out for 5 seconds. and keep repeating it over and over.

2. Use your 5 senses. Smell 5 things where you are now. Taste 5 things. Hear 5 things. See 5 things. Touch 5 things. BUT if one of the senses is what triggered you don't use that sense, skip over it and use another one twice.

3. Call someone you trust, like a friend or your T

4. Write in a journal

5. Draw

6. Change your scenery. If you are outside go inside and visa versa.

7. Write poetry or a story

8. Read a book

9. Play video games

10. Write a letter to someone who hurt you. Then crumple it up and throw it away. Put all the thoughts down on paper as if you would show the person but tear it up and never show them. That is a way for you to get it out.

11. Go for a walk or jog. Be mindful, look at your surroundings and feel the sun, rain, snow, hot, cold.

12. Hold ice in your hand. The cold will snap you back to the present and wont leave any marks

13. Snap a rubber band against your wrist. Once again it will bring you back to the present.

14. Repeat phrases such as "I am safe now" "It's over" "It's just a memory"

15. If you have a pet like a dog or cat pet them, brush them, hug them. Pets hold unconditional love for their owners and are amazing at making people feel better.

Add your own to this list...

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do you have a watch with a second hand? breathe in for 6 seconds and out for 4 seconds. it is important that it is this amount of time.

sorry, other way around. in for 4 and out for 6.



practise some deep breathing techniques

start yoga and or mediation

talk to your dr if this is happening a lot

look on www.mindorg.uk for advice
best wishes




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