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Discussion Topic: Making Panic a Priority?
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07-16-2004 @ 5:01 PM |
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When I started feeling better & finding it harder to work on therapie(s) my therapist told me that I should set aside certain times every week to work on this.
She said that would be better than feeling like I NEEDED to be consumed with it. She told me to enjoy feeling good again & only work on this at designated times.
What do you all think about this???
Thanks,
Chanda
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| redface |
07-16-2004 @ 6:52 PM |
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But how can you designate a time for an obsessive thought? I thought it just comes upon you, unless you say,"NO" to yourself, or replace it with something else....but I find in my case that if I am obsessing over something, I WANT to obsess over it, and I don't want to put it out of my mind, even if I should. That's the whole point of obsessions isn't it? Is it something you can stop, or something that comes up when anxious, or something triggers it, or you just want to think about it?
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07-17-2004 @ 12:45 AM |
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You have all made some good points!!! You understand that panic/Anxiety can sometimes be at ridiculous times and with no good explanation of your fear and yeah that really does suck big time. Know this though, that you are ahead of the game. Remember knowing is half the battle. So be encouraged by that!!! Believe me I do not always have an optimistic approach especially during an attack.But I do know that there is hope at the end of the tunnel. I know its hard living this way sometimes even I feel hopeless. Just remember to be thankful you are still living.
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07-17-2004 @ 12:44 PM |
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how can we put time aside to ruminate and how can we do therapies when we aren't having symtoms? when they go away...there is nothing to do therapy about....until they come back...
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07-17-2004 @ 1:52 PM |
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Nurseboy,
I think that is why I crashed so hard when I relapsed, I actually was panic free, no longer agoraphobic, off antidepressants for 3 yrs. I did NOT continue breathing techniques, I let exercise go, I was busy working, etc. I started the caffine again. So when my big one hit, I acted the same way as my first one, curled up in a ball fetal position, my mind was wild again with the thoughts, and the thought of you need to breath again went out the window. I truly think if I had kept up the coping skills I learned and applied them everyday while I was panic free, it wouldnt have made my panic as frightening again.
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07-17-2004 @ 9:17 PM |
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what does the breathing do for you?
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07-17-2004 @ 10:31 PM |
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Diaphragmatic breathing helps stop my attacks from getting full blown, and if it is full blown, it will help cease it. If Im nervous, I need only to place my hand on my stomach to know, and sure enough it isnt rising and falling, Ive constricted it to my chest, and gotten into the subtle hyperventilation mode. Which starts the chain reaction. By practicing hold to do it helps, slowly inhale count to 5 while exhaling slowly, like they teach in Lamaze classes, exhale through your mouth slowly, not holding it and blowing it all out at once to gasp up for the next breath. Keep repeating.
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