Anxiety and "Manual Breathing" (Hyperventilation)?

[Strawberry]

Can't sleep tonight because I can't stop manually breathing. It is like I will stop breathing if I stop thinking about breathing. It gets really annoying. Do any of you also suffer from this? My chest and tummy is also pretty tense. My therapist says to tense my chest muscles and then relax them but that doesn't work and when I try to do breathing exercises I get really light headed. Anyone else have this problem?

[HealingTime]

Try really hard to think of other things. Happy things. Like a happy memory or a happy memory you'd like to create. If you can get into it enough, your breathing will take over normally and your manual breathing will stop.