Hi greygoose,

jmo said

"I do my breathing excersizes. Visualizations. I also write in a journal. This helps me pinpoint my triggers. "

This is good advice. When we are really stretched it feels like nothing will work, cause were too edgy to get into it. But my experience has been that the strategies do kick in after a while, and we get better at doing them.

I try to treat it like a job of work, and when the anxiety gets worse, I go to work on my strategies. There was a time when I couldn't get on a bus, and these days I can fly on a jet. Oddly, the anxiety is much the same, but I just seem better at working through it.

I hope it gets easier Greygoose, I'm rooting for you.

Cheers, Myzen.

PS - I don't know if I've mentioned this before but my best breathing thing is to count 4in, hold for 4, breath out for 4, hold for 4. It feels like it's not going to work and then after a while I can stay with it. Then my legs get heavier and my arms and I feel much easier.

It probably took me a year to get this exercise sorted and I have used it for at least 15 yrs with success. It has worked for me anyway.