ChristyV6
12-02-2011, 10:18 PM
Hi, I'm Christy and I have suffered from anxiety/panic attack disorder for the past 7 years. My first panic attack came out of nowhere...racing heart, numbness in my arm, lightheadedness. I drove myself to the emergency room that day and was never the same person. Over the next year, I went to the emergency room about once a week. They never found anything physically wrong with me, which was when I began to realize that I had a mental disorder.
A doctor told me that anxiety is just excess energy built up in the body that effects the mind. So I started working out every day, 7 days a week for about an hour and low and behold, all of my symptoms went away. I did a 90 day workout program and never felt better during it, no feelings of dread, no inexplicable deathly symptoms. It was great!
Then I started to slack off in the amount of time and intensity I was putting into the workouts. The dread started to creep back in. But this time I could push it back a little because I had changed my behaviors. I could tell myself that there was no way I was dying today because I had worked out so hard and therefore was in perfect health. So, not only did the exercise get rid of the excess energy, it also gave me a mental tool in the fight against anxiety!
A doctor told me that anxiety is just excess energy built up in the body that effects the mind. So I started working out every day, 7 days a week for about an hour and low and behold, all of my symptoms went away. I did a 90 day workout program and never felt better during it, no feelings of dread, no inexplicable deathly symptoms. It was great!
Then I started to slack off in the amount of time and intensity I was putting into the workouts. The dread started to creep back in. But this time I could push it back a little because I had changed my behaviors. I could tell myself that there was no way I was dying today because I had worked out so hard and therefore was in perfect health. So, not only did the exercise get rid of the excess energy, it also gave me a mental tool in the fight against anxiety!