Thu, Jul-07-16, 07:00
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Plan: dr. Boz Keto Continuum
Stats: 265/226/165
BF:53/46.8/21
Progress: 39%
Location: Oslo, Norway
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Originally Posted by Jesse LC
Yes, that's true for me about the excitement. Even the activities that I'd normally enjoy have turned into things I now dread rather than look forward to.
I did start taking more time to just relax and do nothing and sleep more hours. I know exercise helps a lot with anxiety and it took several false starts trying to re-acquaint myself to the heavy breathing and the rapid heart rates that feel eerily similar to anxiety. It's shocking that all it took was one panic attack to make me not want to exercise anymore even though I've been at it for over a year.
If you have any information on where I could learn some good breathing techniques, I'd certainly look into it. Thanks.
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I was in therapy for a year for depression and anxiety. The one thing I remember most of all of what my therapist told me, was when he said he would sometimes ask anxious patients who were afraid of new attacks if they would just try to trigger one in the safety of his office, with him right there.
What this usually would do is convince the patients that the anxiety attack couldn't kill them, and that the feeling wasn't in fact dangerous. Also, anxiety tends to come in waves. You get through one wave, it slacks off, then the next one may be even higher, but it too passes, and after a while you can't feel any worse. And then the attack passes. Because the brain can't keep up the feeling for long, you get too exhausted. That's when you let an attack happen.
Now when you fight it, and fear the attack, the feeling can come back again and again because thinking about it fuels it. It's like a depressed person ruminating on the bad thoughts, then they take up nearly your whole day, no wonder the feeling is strong!
This really helped me. It may not help anyone else, but give it a try!
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