abovedown
Gold Member
In my own experience you can only 'guide' your body, but not stop it right now. Your mind and body with come out out anxiety attack eventually (Like a bad flu).
These tips have helped me to get out of a mental hole I digged myself
1. If possible, take a break from a stressful situation (even 15 min helps). Somebody said to me that anxiety attack is like a self hypnosis.During a bad anxiety attack I tend to feel like all bad is happening now & it will never get better
2. Limit caffeine intake (this is a biggie for me)
3. Try to break stressfully situation into something you can actually do something about and break these things into separate tasks that you can do one after one (this helps with the underlying feeling of panic and feeling of being trapped)
4. Build healthy habits
- 6-9 hours of sleep
- regular meals
- at least 0.5 hour of walking or being outside (get a little break of of one's mind and it's horror stories)
- meet friends & family
- every day doing something that gives you pleasure: reading, crafts, art, music, yoga etc
5. Remember we are all just humans doing our best. We actually control just a fraction of things affecting our lives.
6. Living one day a time helps too as it helps to focus things that are actually present, not those which we are afraid or which we are hoping to be there.
Hang on there! This too shall pass as the old saying goes.
These tips have helped me to get out of a mental hole I digged myself
1. If possible, take a break from a stressful situation (even 15 min helps). Somebody said to me that anxiety attack is like a self hypnosis.During a bad anxiety attack I tend to feel like all bad is happening now & it will never get better
2. Limit caffeine intake (this is a biggie for me)
3. Try to break stressfully situation into something you can actually do something about and break these things into separate tasks that you can do one after one (this helps with the underlying feeling of panic and feeling of being trapped)
4. Build healthy habits
- 6-9 hours of sleep
- regular meals
- at least 0.5 hour of walking or being outside (get a little break of of one's mind and it's horror stories)
- meet friends & family
- every day doing something that gives you pleasure: reading, crafts, art, music, yoga etc
5. Remember we are all just humans doing our best. We actually control just a fraction of things affecting our lives.
6. Living one day a time helps too as it helps to focus things that are actually present, not those which we are afraid or which we are hoping to be there.
Hang on there! This too shall pass as the old saying goes.