Anxiety attacks activities

[the10thleper319]

I am getting anxiety/panic attacks when doing simple tasks and needed activities. I've got panicky when preparing and eating lunch, and just this morning I couldn't complete my PT and OT exercises because of anxiety for the cervical spinal stenosis I suffer with Any thoughts why valued actions are getting targeted and thwarted by anxiety and panic? It's frustrating not being able to do the activity AND not knowing the source of the anxiety/panic. Thank you.

 

[Lost in the Woods]

For me there are so many variables such as how much stress I am under, have I been sleeping well, is there too much going on around me, etc. I also notice that if family tensions are running higher than usual I am more likely to have anxiety issues.

 

[the10thleper319]

For me there are so many variables such as how much stress I am under, have I been sleeping well, is there too much going on around me, etc. I also notice that if family tensions are running higher than usual I am more likely to have anxiety issues.

Thank you for sharing!

 

[arfie]

physical conditions often trigger anxiety in my own case. i know nothing about it, but "cervical spinal stenosis" sounds like a likely candidate to provide such a trigger. might be worth asking your doctor.

 

[the10thleper319]

physical conditions often trigger anxiety in my own case. i know nothing about it, but "cervical spinal stenosis" sounds like a likely candidate to provide such a trigger. might be worth asking your doctor.

Thank you! The stenosis has been a major element in the past four years of health hell which spurred on the trauma.

 

[Friday]

because of anxiety for the cervical spinal stenosis I suffer with

Have you done any pain-psych?

Anxiety is PART of the -normal healthy- pain response. As is the most extreme version; fight/flight IE pure adrenaline. Best drug in the world, adrenaline. Even better than the endorphins released during mild/moderate pain & exercise. You will feel NO pain, during an adrenaline surge. Zip. Zero. Nada. Zilch. In addition to a whole helluva lotta other things (ability to run on broken bones, faster than you ever ran in your life, level of wowza). Of course, you’ll tear yourself to pieces, but you’ll be alive. Which is what the response is for.

The lower level anxiety that’s part of a normal pain response? Has a very useful purpose with acute injuries… it provokes endorphin release (it’s part of the chemical cascade) and sits your ass down, to stop injuring yourself further.

With long term / chronic pain? One has to learn to ignore the anxiety, and dissociate from the pain. Daily/twice daily physical therapists teach you that, weekly ones don’t (but good one tell you to hire a pain-psychologist to teach it to you).

Having a disorder where anxiety is a component, like PTSD? Means x1000 times the problems as pain anxiety will kickstart PTSD anxiety, and then everything spirals.

Again, can’t underline strongly enough: book time with a pain therapist. It’s a completely different paradigm than a trauma therapist, or marriage and family therapist, or autism early intervention therapist, etc. Therapists specialize. Very very few trauma therapists double as pain therapists.

 

[Midnightmoon]

Thinking about pain psychology has made me remember this guy-

Most helpful thing I was ever taught in the months and months of physical rehab I had as an inpatient.

 

[the10thleper319]

Have you done any pain-psych?

Anxiety is PART of the -normal healthy- pain response. As is the most extreme version; fight/flight IE pure adrenaline. Best drug in the world, adrenaline. Even better than the endorphins released during mild/moderate pain & exercise. You will feel NO pain, during an adrenaline surge. Zip. Zero. Nada. Zilch. In addition to a whole helluva lotta other things (ability to run on broken bones, faster than you ever ran in your life, level of wowza). Of course, you’ll tear yourself to pieces, but you’ll be alive. Which is what the response is for.

The lower level anxiety that’s part of a normal pain response? Has a very useful purpose with acute injuries… it provokes endorphin release (it’s part of the chemical cascade) and sits your ass down, to stop injuring yourself further.

With long term / chronic pain? One has to learn to ignore the anxiety, and dissociate from the pain. Daily/twice daily physical therapists teach you that, weekly ones don’t (but good one tell you to hire a pain-psychologist to teach it to you).

Having a disorder where anxiety is a component, like PTSD? Means x1000 times the problems as pain anxiety will kickstart PTSD anxiety, and then everything spirals.

Again, can’t underline strongly enough: book time with a pain therapist. It’s a completely different paradigm than a trauma therapist, or marriage and family therapist, or autism early intervention therapist, etc. Therapists specialize. Very very few trauma therapists double as pain therapists.

THANK YOU!

 

[the10thleper319]

Thinking about pain psychology has made me remember this guy-

Most helpful thing I was ever taught in the months and months of physical rehab I had as an inpatient.

I appreciate you sharing this with me!