G.A.D. Coping Mechanisms?

I suffer from severe anxiety disorder. I've had it for about 15 years now. I also suffer from post truamatic stress disorder, which easily exhasurbates the anxiety to a level of complete break down and loss of control. The feeling of death , though, is the worst part of it. When the breathing becomes so quick that I feel like my heart is going to explode, I lose it because even though I will eventually come out of it, I beleive I'm going to die. It is absolutely the worst feeling one can go through and I truly wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Never do I feel so scared and alone in my seemingly absolute death.

After years and years of learning srategies and ways to help yourself out of it, there has only been ONE solution for me! It is so simple and works so well, you'll trip out!

- Next time you feel it comming on, or are even in the thick of it, have someone, or you yourself grab onto and squeeze the hell out of a few ice cubes. You must be sitting on the ground, prefferably with your back against a wall. Feel your sit spots on that ground (your butt bones), and don't let go of that raw, burning ice. It snaps you back into the present, and can make you calm down within minutes-sometimes seconds!

The most amazing anxiety specialist I've ever been blessed to know taught me that trick, and I will thank her for ever!

P.S. Always carry at least one valium, or klonopin, or xanax with you at all times in case the ice option isn't available. Good luck :)

specific I do. there have been cases while i've got been so demanding that i could no longer sleep for days, could no longer touch something that yet somebody else would have touched, could no longer consume or artwork or functionality frequently. i do no longer understand the way it have been given to that, how I permit myself bypass that a procedures yet I did. If I permit it, it nonetheless takes place; my back will grab up, i've got self belief panic growing to be interior me and it feels like there isn't any longer something i'm able to do. yet I went to work out my well-being care expert who referred me to a cognitive behavioural therapist and, at the same time as i did no longer sense that it helped in the present day away, I have been given to the element the place i for my area had to help myself and that i began out to alter my concept varieties and think of approximately my very own strikes and reactions. these days, I be able to maintain issues below administration a great form of the time besides the undeniable fact that it incredibly is oftentimes nonetheless there below, simmering away. in step with hazard some all people is in basic terms greater services to stress than others, i do no longer understand. yet i'm able to totally sympathise with you.

hullo

GAD as you put it, may run a chronic course, still drug therapy, meditation, sport, and behavioral cognitive therapy.may all be of help as a package therapy, however psychoanalysis in a way to uncover birth trauma might be of help in some cases.try to ask a psychoanalyst about it.

Dr solo