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| Thu, 03-03-2005 - 9:17am |
What alternatives do you use to cope with anxiety, excluding meds & therapy?
- exercise, including yoga, tai chi, etc.
- hypnotherapy
- relaxation
- breathing exercises
- vitamins, herbs, supplements
- meditation
- positive thinking
- massage
- a combination, please feel free to post
- other, please feel free to post
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Also, if time permits, I like to read when I'm feeling an anxiety attack coming on. Usually this is when there is nothing I can do about the cause of the anxiety (such as stressing about work related things during the weekend) and it gets my mind off of the anxiety and calms me down.
Brightest Blessings,
Annika
Brightest Blessings, Annika
All of a sudden a few years ago I started to get panic attacks.
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Hi Bennie,
I'm so glad to hear that you are working through the problems that were behind those panic attacks. Panic attack that appear for apparently no reason are the worst. You know there has to be something behind them, but what???
>>>The singing and/or whistling forced me to breath and also helped take my mind off of the panic attack.<<<
This is very interesting. Luckily I never suffered from panic attack. My specialty was anxiety attacks, and luckily I never had any of those while driving. However, when I'm alone in the car I, too, will sing along with the radio. I have found that I prefer to drive alone because I can sing (I wouldn't think of subjecting any poor passenger to the horrid sound of my off-key singing voice). Singing just makes me feel calmer and more at ease while driving. I can totally see how it would help with your panic attacks.
Brightest Blessings,
Annika
Brightest Blessings, Annika
Jan,
I use a combination of things like exercise (swimming), relaxation, vitamins, medation, postive thinking, and Dr. David Burns The Feeling Handbook.
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