SeekingAfrica
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Do you have any success stories or experience on that?
I started taking emergency medication for panic attacks at frst because I was in a relationship and he wasn't handling me struggling very well. 10 Years later on and off and I am not sure exactly what to do. I mean I am coping but I recognize I am not coping well. I avoid things I shouldn't avoid and I get myself so twisted in bad thoughts that by the time I get a break in something I am so anxious I can feel my heartbeat vibrate through my whole body.
I took medication mostlly to stop 'inconveniencing' people and I recognize now that while that is convenient, one doesn't always have access to them. And perhaps in me trying to avoid uncomfortable situations with others I missed building some more skills. I had times I stopped medication because I was better. It's been a while though and I am having the hardest year I have had since 2017. I'm sure I am not the only one, but that aside I am trying to improve my life. And constant anxiety and panic attacks are not helping. I know some things. When I used to do 20min yoga and 5min meditation daily in conjunction with the medication, I know it made a difference. I know the 5-4-3-2-1 exercise which has been mildly helpful, and few more breathing exercises. But I'm still a bit lost.
My anxiety has been getting worse with time and while I would love to seek more help, currently I can only rely on myself.
Also a lot of my current anxiety is related to me looking for jobs and having pending payments and while that is a normal part of life I am not coping the best whatsoever. Do I work on the things I mentioned above, do I just need to face things I fear (navigating the current job market and my own situation) until it gets better, are there more things I could or should be doing? My future and ability to handle challenges better is sort of connected to me handling current challenges better than I have so far. Or maybe on reframing my thinking. I just know that doing the tasks I am doing to get a job is currently taking just as much time as I am losing to trying to be calm and all of that.
Besides do what must be done, however uncomfortable, until things get better, is there any other advce to know?
I am starting to do things little by little, more and more every day, but it's still so much less than I could be doing. I do everything like I'm terrified of it biting me. Opening my laptop to redo my resume took forever, I had only used my tablet for a long while. Making a profile on a local job site took so little time but it created a panic attack after. Figuring out my skills, what the profile should have, what to share and how to descipher what I know has taken a long time. I have to do it all in smaller tasks becuase I panic. And this time I have no one else to blame. I'll admit right now I was wrong. Ever since my brother asked my parent have been more careful and considerate with me. And the anxiety didn't stop just because they did. Now I have time but I keep panicking myself over and over. It's like a constant fear that I have and every single step I have to do to make my life better scares me. And I don't know how to stop. It's like this feeling that because my panic currently has an exact reason for once I should be able to cope, but I'm doing terrible.
If anyone knows any useful tools to cope better please share.
I feel like one way or another my life is in for a huge change.
I started taking emergency medication for panic attacks at frst because I was in a relationship and he wasn't handling me struggling very well. 10 Years later on and off and I am not sure exactly what to do. I mean I am coping but I recognize I am not coping well. I avoid things I shouldn't avoid and I get myself so twisted in bad thoughts that by the time I get a break in something I am so anxious I can feel my heartbeat vibrate through my whole body.
I took medication mostlly to stop 'inconveniencing' people and I recognize now that while that is convenient, one doesn't always have access to them. And perhaps in me trying to avoid uncomfortable situations with others I missed building some more skills. I had times I stopped medication because I was better. It's been a while though and I am having the hardest year I have had since 2017. I'm sure I am not the only one, but that aside I am trying to improve my life. And constant anxiety and panic attacks are not helping. I know some things. When I used to do 20min yoga and 5min meditation daily in conjunction with the medication, I know it made a difference. I know the 5-4-3-2-1 exercise which has been mildly helpful, and few more breathing exercises. But I'm still a bit lost.
My anxiety has been getting worse with time and while I would love to seek more help, currently I can only rely on myself.
Also a lot of my current anxiety is related to me looking for jobs and having pending payments and while that is a normal part of life I am not coping the best whatsoever. Do I work on the things I mentioned above, do I just need to face things I fear (navigating the current job market and my own situation) until it gets better, are there more things I could or should be doing? My future and ability to handle challenges better is sort of connected to me handling current challenges better than I have so far. Or maybe on reframing my thinking. I just know that doing the tasks I am doing to get a job is currently taking just as much time as I am losing to trying to be calm and all of that.
Besides do what must be done, however uncomfortable, until things get better, is there any other advce to know?
I am starting to do things little by little, more and more every day, but it's still so much less than I could be doing. I do everything like I'm terrified of it biting me. Opening my laptop to redo my resume took forever, I had only used my tablet for a long while. Making a profile on a local job site took so little time but it created a panic attack after. Figuring out my skills, what the profile should have, what to share and how to descipher what I know has taken a long time. I have to do it all in smaller tasks becuase I panic. And this time I have no one else to blame. I'll admit right now I was wrong. Ever since my brother asked my parent have been more careful and considerate with me. And the anxiety didn't stop just because they did. Now I have time but I keep panicking myself over and over. It's like a constant fear that I have and every single step I have to do to make my life better scares me. And I don't know how to stop. It's like this feeling that because my panic currently has an exact reason for once I should be able to cope, but I'm doing terrible.
If anyone knows any useful tools to cope better please share.
I feel like one way or another my life is in for a huge change.
