A lot going on in life.

I have been having more and more anxiety attacks the last month or so.
It's been a really rough ending to 2011.
My Grandma on my Mom's side passed away very unexpectedly in October and not only did I loose her my Grandpa doesn't really care to be apart of our lives anymore. So I lost both of them in my world.
Then in Late November my Grandmother on my Dad's side was diagnosed with a brain tumor that turned out to be severely aggressive cancer and she doesn't have a lot of time left with us.
I got to spend time with her and all of my Dad's side of the family before Christmas and she was doing okay, but now she has taken a turn for the worst.

I am having an extremely hard time dealing with all that is going on. I could give you the long drawn out story but I will spare you of that.

The short of is is I'm anxious all the time and super paranoid about who the next person in my family that will pass away. I feel like people are being taken away before they should be and I'm not dealing with it well.
I'm also having severe separation issues within my immediate family that is causing a lot of anxiety.

I feel very lost, and not sure what to do with myself.
Any tips besides deep breathing to help with the massive amounts of anxiety that I am feeling?

When I first started having panic attacks all I ever read was "just take deep breaths" over and over. It never helped me much. Since I've almost got over having the attacks I just have a lot of gad. But to answer your question, the thing that helped me with the short breaths and thinking youre gonna die because you can't breathe. The best thing I found was to just tell yourself. This is just anxiety. It's anxiety that's causing this. So once you can except that it's just a panic attack and nobody in history has died from a panic attack it will eventually start to let up. Very tough to do at first. I'm sorry you're having such a tough time with your family right now. I hope this helps some at least.