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__________________ Everyone can do magic - Cassie Nightgale the good witch. Dear Diary today will be different today I can smile it will be genuine because today is the day I get to live. This life will be good and beautiful, but not without heartbreak. In death come peace. But pain is the cost of living. Like love, it's how we know we're alive. And life goes on. That my life weird, messy, complicated, sad, wonderful, amazing, and above all epic and I owe all to Stephen. - Eleanor Gilbert Vampire Diaries |
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I've had that before, and sometimes I have that when processing trauma with my alternate personalities in therapy. My therapist would help me to refocus and ground by feeling my feet on the ground, moving my arms and shoulders and body around, and sometimes breathing. Whatever works in the moment so that I'm not panicking or dissociating or having too many flashbacks at once.
When I'm hyperventilating, the breathing in the paper bag works. But if you don't have that, I tend to sit own, bend down by putting my head close to my knees, and then moaning. Sometimes that helps me to get my breath back. Sometimes I pace and walk around, but that might make things worse. I have to feel safe and training my eyes, ears, and touch/feeling feet on the ground/feeling something safe in the vicinity - or even just feeling my body again - to feel safe. Taste is tough to feel safe, and some people lose their taste or smell, so I don't go by those senses to ground or feel safe anymore. I am also paying tribute in my own way of grounding to those who lost their smell and taste, too. I think of them and my empathy for them helps to ground me sometimes - not always. But when you cannot think while panicking and hyperventilating, the breathing thing or movement thing helps - esp. if you have a paper bag. |
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__________________ Everyone can do magic - Cassie Nightgale the good witch. Dear Diary today will be different today I can smile it will be genuine because today is the day I get to live. This life will be good and beautiful, but not without heartbreak. In death come peace. But pain is the cost of living. Like love, it's how we know we're alive. And life goes on. That my life weird, messy, complicated, sad, wonderful, amazing, and above all epic and I owe all to Stephen. - Eleanor Gilbert Vampire Diaries |
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I honestly didn’t understand what was happening to me when it happened, it was almost 2 years ago at the beginning of the pandemic at work in a supermarket when the panic buying was happening. We were putting things on the shelves and people were grabbing them straight off and looking back I was absorbing the stress around me.
The only thing I could think to do was remove myself from the stressful situation by going in the warehouse and actually that helped. Quietness and space helped a lot. I don’t know if this will help you at all or is relevant, did the paper bag work? I have never tried that. |
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__________________ Everyone can do magic - Cassie Nightgale the good witch. Dear Diary today will be different today I can smile it will be genuine because today is the day I get to live. This life will be good and beautiful, but not without heartbreak. In death come peace. But pain is the cost of living. Like love, it's how we know we're alive. And life goes on. That my life weird, messy, complicated, sad, wonderful, amazing, and above all epic and I owe all to Stephen. - Eleanor Gilbert Vampire Diaries |
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Yes, this is my main symptom while having a panic attack. hugs to everyone else expieriencing this!
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__________________ Everyone can do magic - Cassie Nightgale the good witch. Dear Diary today will be different today I can smile it will be genuine because today is the day I get to live. This life will be good and beautiful, but not without heartbreak. In death come peace. But pain is the cost of living. Like love, it's how we know we're alive. And life goes on. That my life weird, messy, complicated, sad, wonderful, amazing, and above all epic and I owe all to Stephen. - Eleanor Gilbert Vampire Diaries |
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#28
Though some anxiety runs in my family (one sibling would stress about their grades and got better grades than me, one of my parents told me that the other was unable to eat and throwing up when faced with a severe challenge in his/her family, etc.)--I was not an anxious child because my parents created a very stable environment--my mom kept us on a schedule with regular meals, bedtimes, and ensured we followed it while my dad always gave me unconditional love. I think children need both of these things. My anxiety emerged after facing relationship problems, financial problems, isolation, and was a result of my own poor decisions (I made an attempt in 2015 that resulted in ICU with two operations and 25 days in the hospital--I had flashbacks for a while of the attempt). Lastly, I was facing these things without God's help--I am relying on God now and do not have the kind of anxiety that I had before and after my attempt. I am so grateful that I feel so much better than I used to. Not that I never have any anxiety because my life still has challenges but it is much less severe and very manageable. I hope you are able to find ways to bring it under control.
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__________________ Everyone can do magic - Cassie Nightgale the good witch. Dear Diary today will be different today I can smile it will be genuine because today is the day I get to live. This life will be good and beautiful, but not without heartbreak. In death come peace. But pain is the cost of living. Like love, it's how we know we're alive. And life goes on. That my life weird, messy, complicated, sad, wonderful, amazing, and above all epic and I owe all to Stephen. - Eleanor Gilbert Vampire Diaries |
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