Hiya Shoozer. Yes, I get breathless due to anxiety attacks. I take a deep breath, hold it in for a second or two then let it out slowly. This brings more air into my bloodstream and calms me down. What is happening is that you have been shallow breathing for a while before the attack. Your heart starts to pump fast to get more air around your body. So when you take a deep breath and do that for a couple of minutes it calms you down.Does anyone else suffer from chronic hyperventilation related to anxiety? I would be interested in hearing about your experience and how you deal with it. Thanks.
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Hi Shoozer, Thought to shared my experience with you. I can imagine how awful, stressful, ugly you name it the life can become with anxiety. I have been there with my breathing anxiety and let me tell you one thing, "DON'T WORRY, YOU ARE ALL FINE". put your hand on your heart and say "All is well". I suffered from it 5 to 6 years ago and I even recently this week I had it again because I made it up all in my mind. But first of all, most important is to know if this is really anxiety or maybe other lungs disease or other infection that cause breathing problem. If all is clear out by your doctor and you know it is anxiety then there is nothing to worry. I went to the gym last week, did some heavy arm workout and it gave me back pain next day due to some wrong postures. Now as we all know when we have upper back pain, it sometimes make breathing difficult. I am a person who is always thinking like what if this happen, what if that happen etc etc. And from here I started thinking that I am not breathing properly. This thought created extra adrenaline in my body and sends signal to brain that I am in danger. Guess what? My brain told me to breath heavy because it is not getting enough air. I started breathing deeply with my mouth and just in 2 minutes I fall into "HYPERVENTILATION STATE". Now this is not a good feeling. So I was still breathing heavy and made my hyperventilation even worse. This gave me more pain in my chest. The pain was sharp in the middle of chest. A tight feeling in the chest. I reached a stage where I thought ok that is it am gonna faint or die in few seconds because I'm not getting enough air. Then I told myself ok "All is well, All is well" I have to take control and get out of this or it will go even worse. Then I just closed my eyes, sat on couch and started breathing shallow with nose. I was holding my breath and then take it out in 7 to 8 seconds. Within next few minutes, I started to calm down and all was slowly going well. But I was not able to sleep the whole night. But slowly I am doing good and getting better. This was my story now lets talk about facts that why this all happened?Does anyone else suffer from chronic hyperventilation related to anxiety? I would be interested in hearing about your experience and how you deal with it. Thanks.
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You might be suffering from Hyperawareness OCD?I can't breathe sometimes and ..........sometimes I feel like I am about to faint.
Well, I can't stand others touch at all and if I couldn't get to sanitize my hands soon, I would be in deep trouble. Even two days back, I had to give handshake to a business person, because of my work and I had to try hard...very hard to breathe during those 20 minutes.
After that, I had to run to my desk and sanitize my hands. I bet the person beside my desk was freaked out as I was breathing really hard and covered in sweat.
I am glad that I was able to hold my tears to be honest. That was my achievement of the year.
It's really hard to share these things with others, as they don't know what we are talking about and thinks we could improve it ....with some effort.
Sanitizing helps but not all that much. After that I listened to my favorite music for almost an hour to get back to my original self. This is just one my experiences.
I have heard of Hypersensitiveness before but I don't think that is the reason why I have been suffering.You might be suffering from Hyperawareness OCD?