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Any tips for managing or avoiding anxiety attacks? (self.anxiety)

submitted 1 week ago by daggermoon to c/anxiety

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I have frequent anxiety attacks. Sometimes I can pinpoint a cause, other times I can't. Just recently I had one from playing a game. In the game I have to throw barrels to hit a target which is alot harder than it sounds. What would have once just pissed me off now has my heart racing, has me feeling naucious, and has me feeling a sense of dread I guess. My mental health has gone to shit the last month or so, it was always bad but now its worse. For the last year I've had stomach problems which the doctor hasn't found a physical cause for, I even had an endoschopy and they said everything looks normal. I'm starting to think It's a physical symptom of my anxiety. I'd be grateful for any advice this fine community can offer. Thank you.

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[–] shalafi 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Had panic attacks a few times before I knew what they were, and knowing that I was simply experiencing a weird biological reaction dialed the unreasonable fear in quite a bit.

Anyway, all I knew to do was get out and march. Drop what you're doing, nothing else matters, go outside your door and walk. Walk until you get back in control. Walk if it take miles and miles. Just do it, don't think about it. Walk. Fuck else you gonna do, examine your navel while your heart spirals out of control? Walk.

And yes, absent physical causes, your stomach problems are 100% due to anxiety. You need exercise. Humans bodies did not evolve to live as we do. We evolved to work our ass off, all day long.

And for anyone who comes along and says, "Hunter gatherers only worked $X hours a week!" STFU. I'll throw you outside for a week, see how easy you think it is. Hell, just regulating your body temp through the day is "work". Commanding a keyboard is not.

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