I’m working on getting completely rid of my anxiety. I would go into bouts (mostly during late evening and night) of just sheer terror to the point of almost putting my body into shock. It would get so bad that I would hyperventilate, it would feel like I was having a heart attack, and my thoughts would race and I would shake from head to toe along with my saliva glands failing to produce anything. Nothing/anything would trigger it.
Breathing techniques, praying, focusing on other things has helped me out a lot. The thing that’s helped me the most? I used to suffer in silence, not wanting to bring attention to my growing anxiety attack in fear it would make it worse. I would only say something after I was at the breaking point, and my poor husband would be up with me to all hours of the night trying to calm me down. Now I talk to him about it if I start showing any signs. He sits down with me, talks to me and I talk it out to him, I breathe, he comforts me, and it lessens the blow so much that it pretty much instantly goes away. Him helping me out with this and lessening the blow has been such a blessing.
I’ll never again keep it bottled up to the exploding point like I used to. I don’t use heavy pharmaceuticals (or any pharmaceuticals for that matter) so having this technique to help me get rid of these awful attacks works wonders. <3