How can I get over anxiety attacks without taking medicine?
10 May 2010
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L M asked:
I have some severe anxiety attacks when I procrastinate on getting things done, but if I get things done too early, then I still get anxiety attacks as if I still need to do something. I’m quite panicked and it’s getting to the point where I don’t want to be around too many people. I am at my wits end, and I’ve isolated myself away from people. Also, my anxiety causes me to overeat and I am about 70 lbs. overweight and don’t have a grip on anything. I especially get anxious the day before I have to go to work. I work in healthcare and am especially anxious the day before. It is affecting my life. Does someone have some fool-proof advice? I’d prefer not to take meds (I’m already on some meds), but maybe a clue as to a different way of thinking might help me emensely. Thank you…
I have some severe anxiety attacks when I procrastinate on getting things done, but if I get things done too early, then I still get anxiety attacks as if I still need to do something. I’m quite panicked and it’s getting to the point where I don’t want to be around too many people. I am at my wits end, and I’ve isolated myself away from people. Also, my anxiety causes me to overeat and I am about 70 lbs. overweight and don’t have a grip on anything. I especially get anxious the day before I have to go to work. I work in healthcare and am especially anxious the day before. It is affecting my life. Does someone have some fool-proof advice? I’d prefer not to take meds (I’m already on some meds), but maybe a clue as to a different way of thinking might help me emensely. Thank you…
Sit down, relax, rub your ears (it works).
I am with you on the not taking meds thing. I have had problems with anxiety in the past, as well as depression and depersonalization, and meds are not a fun way to deal with it. I took my pills for a short time and then decided it wasn’t worth it to me to be dependent on these awful drugs for sanity.
I do not think there is any such thing as fool-proof advice, but I can offer you my experience and hope that it helps you as it has me.
The drugs force your brain to produce more of certain types of chemicals but less of others, giving you a boost in things that make you happy and reducing things that make you sad. The only other way to combat these problems is to moderate these chemicals the natural way – by controlling your mood.
First, I started with therapy. It only took me so far, but it was a good start to be working with a trained professional who would listen to me and try to guide me. (In the end, nobody can fix it for you and it is up to you.)
Next, I started focusing on things that made me happy. This is difficult in the winter (I have seasonal affective disorder), but doable. In the summer, I find that if I just take a break for a moment and go outside, or even just look at the trees and birds and squirrels and think about how alive everything is, I start to feel better. I remind myself that no matter how overwhelming this feels right now, it will pass, as everything does, and in time I won’t even remember it. In the long run, it is not important at all! This is easy to know but difficult to feel. It takes practice. The things that help calm you down might be different for you than me, but there will always be something in your life that causes the spark of a happy feeling, and you can grab onto that.
I can also recommend breathing exercises. Even if you are not a religious or spiritual person, there are proven medical benefits to things like yoga, meditation, and controlling your breathing. You can find some simple exercises here:
Ultimately, you have the power to control it. Most people don’t seem to understand that it is not easy for everybody: it is easy for most people, but for some of us it takes a lot of work, time, patience, and persistence. The first step in making this big change in your life is to recognize that you have the power to do it, and nobody else has to power to do it for you. Be patient with yourself and do your very best to think positive thoughts. I truly hope that someday you will be able to get off of the medication completely and be in full control of your life. Best of luck!
breath in a paper bag ….but if u need meds give me a call!!!
try to take walks or other kinds of exercise to help relieve some of the anxiety. It does work trust me
Do some deep breathing then get busy and distract yourself.
First of all, are you seeying a professional caunselor? If you are, continue. Medication may be part of the treatment but you should continue until the psychiatrist begins to wean you off the meds. A psychiatrist or therapist would teach you several techniques such as controlled diaphramic breathing; when you feel an attack coming take slow deep controlled breaths in through your nose and out through your mouth and think to yourself that you are in no danger since your body is responding believing it is in danger. A therapist will tell you different ways to train your body not to react to everyday situations as a threat to your life.
walk go to holisticonline.com for tips. also go to adaa.org, anxietyandfears.com, socialanxietyfriends.com, findthelight.net, nolongerlonely.com for moral suport, talk to me i can help u out. try chamomile tea. bubble baths helps ease ppl up. also write down ur thoughts. and try to just drink lots of water.
Go ahead and get things done…then move on to the next project or reward yourself by devoting that new found time to a good book, a jigsaw puzzle or something else personal and peaceful to you.
Anxiety is very common. Your food compulsions sound like they are helping to feed the anxiety that you have. Try to have something else to do, other than eat.
Calcium is known for being good for your bones, but is also a natural tranquilizer. Try taking about 2000mg a day.
Magnesium is what I swear by. You can take 600-1000mg a day. I take 1000mg as I find taht I consume very little in my natural diet. It helps to relieve anxiety, tension, nervousness and muscle spasms and tics. It works best when taken with calcium.
Vitamin B complex helps your nervous system as a whole.
Many people love the convenience of multi-vitamins, but I think that its best to take only what is needed. I take my Vitamin B in the morning, my coenzyme10 & vitamin D at lunch and my magnesium & calcium in the early evening
mmm sorry to hear that but it is actually a good thing I know sounds wierd to you now but i had the same thing years agoo ive lurned on the way you shouldnt be worried about what other people say think or do,.. ( you really shouldnt let that go! ) you are one of a kind and proberbly highly intelligent… just dont know yet what to do with it its ok to be you its ok to not agree with any one or like any one you meet or not all persons you know you are right so dont put on a farce..( wannabee theres soo many lost souls already )! infact nobody knows what life is about… its not how you look or what you weight and you know that anyway,, you sooo right NOT to take medicine it makes you weak .. ( ive worked for years in a health shop) I actually ( you remind me of me in a way) think you are a verry clever person but with the wrong people around you or you havent found the right persons yet to mingle (you will though) just keep yourselve.. this is a truely honest answer and i hope you reconise it as such .. sometimes we are very alone this is for a very good reason, to lurn you can not do that without it.. (that sobbing feeling) of lonelyness.. you can change youreselve you have to believe in you and only you,… I think you on the right and only path I really do..(like I say ) you remind me of myselve when a vew years younger.. just try to accept what you are cos your special/ people dont show their real selves they put up a show hide themsel;ves behind all kind of things like being pritty or clever or whatever when they not ..its all show just stay as you are and lurn and DONT hide./( im sooo fine now..) face your fears we all have to and when you do you feel a million dollar just try .. just try and see baby steps i wish i could give you a look into my life… dont know how old you are but trust me you get there maybe a lot sooner than you think so dont think its a negative IM telling you it is a possitive.. ! XX bless you
Hey girl..man I hate reading stuff like this because I have been there, done that. I suffered with it for yrs and just recently I suffered with it off and on for 3 yrs!! And like you I didnt wanna take meds, be around ppl, or do anything, and I was also 70 lbs overweight. I think I started suffering with anxiety when i was about 7 yrs old and I didnt know what the hell it was. I remember there being alot about talk about AIDS and you know “news” and I would get so crazy about things like that. No one else will know what you are going thru better than a person who has or is experiancing what you are going thru. Because other ppl will give you advise and tell you to chill out, but thats easier said than done, they dont understand(not that they dont wanna help)but ya know…Youre mind can trick you to believe anything you want it to..but the tricky part is trying replace all those “worry” thoughts into “good” thoughts, but you can only do that for yourself. ***REMEMBER** Most of the things that we worry about during an anxiety attack NEVER EVER HAPPEN, the things we tend to not worry about do. EXAMPLE:::(Lets say you have a headache every day this week) “What if i have a brain tumor? but really you are just stressed or tired or whatever the case may be.. but when we suffer from anxiety our minds exaggerate everything!!! I used to get them so bad..that I would wake up and think I was having a heartattack(Im only 26), or I would sweat, have headaches(that would never go away), have nightmares, just episodes of an overwhelming fear coming from no where, its really scary. You can email me anytime.. I hope that I can help you out..plz email me sometime..take care girl
Anxiety attacks are from a mild psychosis made by your own brain after a depression attack. The brain hates to erase bad expectations about love and life and the chemicals so formed will remain in the spinal fluid. When strong enough the lower or auto brain is allowed by these chemicals to access messages that it must not. It will do as it pleases and force the upper brains to right the ship (that s you ) with logic patches. One logic patch is this panic. You can’t remove it without strong emotions like love. It will die out over the years. Pills are an excellent way to lower your thinking ability . After all if you were not so cleaver this would not have happened. right??
Almighty God is your best Healer. God loves you, and you are precious to Him. Jesus died on the Cross to save us from condemnation, and qualifying us to Heaven. Heaven is all light and love, eternal without end. This life is short and uncertain. Never, never, miss Heaven for anything of this troubled world. Best wishes for happiness and Heaven!
I’m getting tired of others “knocking” medicinal Therapy for their Anxiety attacks, etc. OK, I can say this for the meds, they aren’t for everybody but they do not “make” them do 1 thing or another in a brain! It merely HELPS correct the “imbalance”, and if it works, who cares that people need help with the drugs! At times a Dr. will try you on different kinds to see which one will help you. They go according to your symptoms, and it’s all based on “Trial & Error”.
So, “Don’t knock it if you haven’t tried it!” OR, the one that will work for you!!!!!!
I’m taking PROZAC and it helps me! Simple.
any sort of depression can be tide over by faith in GOD and sincere prayer.
Your prayer is from your heart. Further You must have to understood the fact that God is present in our heart. This can be realised in meditation. Further we are the creation of our own destiny. As per Hindu sacred religion, we carry all good and bad deeds life after life. There is no end unless we pray for unification of self with the divineliness.
Hence there is always a possible way to complete mergence with God in this life by a simple and wonderful meditation
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