CathHelena
06-21-2013, 04:46 AM
I just need to share what's happening to me, and how far i've come, and how i did it, hopefully helping people with the same problem :-)
I havde since i was about 13 suffered from major panic attacks, and daily anxiety.
Back then it was a attack of hyperventalating, and then i was okay again, but didn't remember what had just happen.
Since then i've keep it on a minimum, felt pretty good and like it was under control, then all of the sudden, i started have these thought, and ideas about thing that were " wrong with me", overthinking and stuff. Suddenly it felt like my heart was racing, or sometimes skipped a beat, my chest hurt, my lungs and thoat hurt, it felt like i kept skipping a breath or couldnt get it.
Began to think every day that something was wrong with me, that i was having heart problems, lung problems, breast cancer ( you name it, in my mind i had it!).
When i was to go to sleep ( every night in a long period), i couldnt, because my heart raced, just couldnt find rest.
Then one day it got so bad that i called the ( what we call it here in Denmark) the " All-night-docter-service", with my sister, and paniced, where the docter lady so calmly said to me "You are okay, the thing you are expiriencing is panic attacks, where you convince your body and mind that something is wrong with you, and your body then panics and that's why you feel the "phantom pains" you are feeling, you need to understand it's all in your head, i promise you, you'll be ok".
For some reason that helped a little at that time, to hear someone else, a professional non the less, tell me that i'm okay.
Since then i started to take control over my body and mind, healthy easting actually helped with the depressing feeling i carried around for so many years, and to keep convincing myself, that i am in fact OKAY!
Here's for one last thing:
What really was a lifechanger, was that i found these app's in appstore on iPhone ( also find them on Youtube), with meditation/music and a sort of hypnose, i use it when i'm going to sleep, and now it has helped me so much, that i dont feel the anxiety daily anymore, it's still there, and it will take me a long time to get past, or learn to live with.
But now i can sleep at night, i can breath, my heart is racing ever anymore ( except for running and stuff ofc :-D) and my depressing feeling isn't that present anymore.
I just wanted to tell you an anxiety story with somehow of an happy ending.
Thank you for reading, and too you that feel like this.. You are okay.
Catharina.
I havde since i was about 13 suffered from major panic attacks, and daily anxiety.
Back then it was a attack of hyperventalating, and then i was okay again, but didn't remember what had just happen.
Since then i've keep it on a minimum, felt pretty good and like it was under control, then all of the sudden, i started have these thought, and ideas about thing that were " wrong with me", overthinking and stuff. Suddenly it felt like my heart was racing, or sometimes skipped a beat, my chest hurt, my lungs and thoat hurt, it felt like i kept skipping a breath or couldnt get it.
Began to think every day that something was wrong with me, that i was having heart problems, lung problems, breast cancer ( you name it, in my mind i had it!).
When i was to go to sleep ( every night in a long period), i couldnt, because my heart raced, just couldnt find rest.
Then one day it got so bad that i called the ( what we call it here in Denmark) the " All-night-docter-service", with my sister, and paniced, where the docter lady so calmly said to me "You are okay, the thing you are expiriencing is panic attacks, where you convince your body and mind that something is wrong with you, and your body then panics and that's why you feel the "phantom pains" you are feeling, you need to understand it's all in your head, i promise you, you'll be ok".
For some reason that helped a little at that time, to hear someone else, a professional non the less, tell me that i'm okay.
Since then i started to take control over my body and mind, healthy easting actually helped with the depressing feeling i carried around for so many years, and to keep convincing myself, that i am in fact OKAY!
Here's for one last thing:
What really was a lifechanger, was that i found these app's in appstore on iPhone ( also find them on Youtube), with meditation/music and a sort of hypnose, i use it when i'm going to sleep, and now it has helped me so much, that i dont feel the anxiety daily anymore, it's still there, and it will take me a long time to get past, or learn to live with.
But now i can sleep at night, i can breath, my heart is racing ever anymore ( except for running and stuff ofc :-D) and my depressing feeling isn't that present anymore.
I just wanted to tell you an anxiety story with somehow of an happy ending.
Thank you for reading, and too you that feel like this.. You are okay.
Catharina.