Hi Mina ~ Bless your heart, I struggled with anxiety too for quite some time and it's awful.

Was your anxiety mostly due to your job or college? Now that you've quit your job, do you expect the anxiety to LESSEN at all? I would hope so.

It sounds like your medication isn't doing it's job -- that perhaps you might need an increase in it. Talk to your doctor, ok?

One thing my husband used to tell me when I was having an attack -- he'd say to ask myself : "What's the worst that could happen?" So I'd ask myself and think it thru. For me, I wasn't working. The anxiety would cause me to hyperventilate, and many times things would being to go black. I'd come close to fainting. So the 'worst' that could happen was I would faint. Big deal!!! If I was in public, where these often happened, they'd whoosh me to the hospital, and find I'd just fainted, and let me go home. Big deal!!!

So that helped me alot. I kept asking myself this question when I felt an anxiety attack coming on -- and it helped to stave it off !!! My pulse went down, and I didn't hyperventilate!!

Something else you can do -- Put your finger on your Carotid artery --- the BIG one on your neck, where you can feel your pulse. If you feel an attack coming on, push on the carotid artery, and it will REDUCE your pulse. Your heart beat won't be pounding out of your chest, and it CAN stop your attack.

Also drinking a cold glass of water can help too!

But long term, your best bet is to talk to a therapist. You need to know the BASIS for these attacks. What causes them? What issues do you have that makes you continue to have these? The therapist can help you thru this. Have your doctor refer you to a good therapist, and you won't regret it!

I wish you the very best. Let us know what happens. God bless. Hugs, Lee