Questions And Answers On How To Fight Panic Attacks And Anxiety

By Mark B

Mandy asks…

How to deal with anxiety?

I have anxiety and i no its really bad. I have panic attacks when i get in fights with my friends. I always think something bad is going to happen. I have anxiety and panic attacks and paranoia. I need home methods. I dont wanna see a doctor and i dont want meds. I need ways to make myself relax about this

Mark B answers:

I have (had) the same problem… I went to a psychologist and for the first few months I took a small dosage of lexapro…
I soon got off of it and the answer now is exercise… Just stay active!
I still have medicine just in case I have a panic attack.
Just see a doctor and explain that you don’t want to have meds and he or she will tell you what to do

Good Luck

~Joe~

Paul asks…

Was this a panic or anxiety attack?

my boyfriend and were talking tonight and we’ve been fighting lately about little things, but tonight I was talking to him about how I was concerned about his chronic back pains. He started crying because he was happy to know that I do love and really care about him but when he began to cry he couldn’t stop for the life of him. Then he had difficulty breathing and actually stopped breathing for a little while. He said after he finally stopped crying that he felt dizzy and his body was hot. During the crying, his heart was beating very fast then it slowed to probably one beat per two seconds. He felt as if his “emotions were stabbing at him” and that he felt death when he stopped breathing. Did he just have a panic or anxiety attack? How can I help him if this happens again??

Mark B answers:

It sounds like a panic attack to me just anxiety doesn’t do that to me but panic attacks do. I have had panic attacks for years and one of my tell tell signs is my fingers feel tingly or my hands or my face does and sometimes just my nose does and it feels like i am not breathing. Ask him if that happened to him.

As to helping him. Try Holding him and telling him everything is going to be okay and to take deep breaths and that you are there for him and you aren’t going anywhere and that there is nothing to worry about.

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