That was a great article about Panic disorders and breathing, ironically I'm finely learning to breath properly because of physical thearapy for a nerve disorder. It's helping me w/ the anxiety too. It would be nice if a person could get physical thearapy for anxiety I could have really used this, one of the stranger stmptoms I get is pins and needles in my feet, I've always known its from breathing incorrectly, but I never knew PT could help. This is the thrid place I've been to and the frist to noice I hold my breath when I get anxious, or fearful. They have added Breathing exercises to my strengthening exercises. JD is right there is no cure, and although I'm having trouble with PTSD again after many years of very few problems it is much easer to handle now with the use of the tools I got from the frist T's, I don't struggle so with the feeling of being inferior for "needing" mental help as I did all those years ago. Most likely because in someways it is more acceptable, in part because I know it's not my fault. I learned what to look for and knew I needed help sooner, so I didn't end up in crisis and a hospital first. Anouother thing JD is right about is diagnoseing yourself, I really wanted to be bipolor and not PTSD, I could deny the abuse that way. It was hard for me to accept. Now they are telling me things have changed in diagnosis and people w/ my symptoms and abuse histories have Complex PTSD. Which is why the medical probing and procedures are setting me off. My trying to get the diagnosis I wanted set my recovery back a long way. So do listen to JD and others on this blog they are very wise persons.
((Stoda))) Maybe with your asthma and possible PTSD, or other anxiety disorder you could ask about PT to help with breathing. Maybe take the article with you, you could ask for it to be put on consideration. I don't have a lot of advice the best I can do is share my story and hope that others can make better decisions than I did. You are asking for help and thats good. Thats huge, very wise. All the best.