Why I feel that my anxiety is beyond my control

[OCDme]

so I've been suffering from severe hyperawareness OCD and anxiety. When I get a burst of anxiety, the timing is so random. For those of you who get burst of anxiety for no 'specific reasons such as PTSD or drug use', it just is literally a random occurrance. And no matter how many times I think to myself that it's just my brain freaking out and how much I try to just accept the burst of anxiety and let it go, I still feel the full blown pain of anxiety when it happens(which happens randomly). So basically,
1. my severe burst of anxiety happens at random times.
2. what I think while the anxiety burst does not matter at all because my brain stops thinking(like a computer freezing) and pure anxiety and pain completely take over.
3. I've tried therapy and all kinds of 'tips' from people and nothing worked at all because my brain just freezes like a broken computer when burst of anxiety hits me out of nowhere.


so, how common is it to have 'no control at all' over anxiety attacks like my case? because I think that the majority of anxiety sufferers actually have 'some control' over it. I would like to get some honest answers.

[Scass]

I think that lots of people think that they get panic attacks “out of the blue” and “for no reason”. But there’s always a reason.
Panic attacks are your mental and physical responses to fear. You don’t feel fear for no reason do you?




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[OCDme]

I think that lots of people think that they get panic attacks “out of the blue” and “for no reason”. But there’s always a reason.
Panic attacks are your mental and physical responses to fear. You don’t feel fear for no reason do you?




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I think you're assuming that because you've never had random panic attacks that came out of nowhere.

[Scass]

Ok.


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[pulisa]

Sorry about that, Scass. You were only trying to help the OP.

[Tommo1980]

It's very common. That's the nature of general anxiety disorder.

Tommo x

[ankietyjoe]

The initial burst of anxiety IS beyond your control, it's beyond everybody's control.

The important part to control though, is the preceding 30 seconds.


Don't catastrophise what's happened. Don't worry about where the attack is going. Don't start to say 'oh no, oh no, oh no' in your head, or out loud.

All my worst attacks used to be out of the blue, for no reason.

It took me a long time to learn that not reacting to them and ignoring them is THE best way to eventually make them go away. It doesn't matter if your brain feels locked, you can still try and ignore what's going on. It's not succeeding in ignoring it that matters, it's trying.

[Scass]

Sorry about that, Scass. You were only trying to help the OP.

Thank you. I suppose it’s an emotional topic.
I just don’t subscribe to the fact that panic attacks come out of nowhere. Otherwise why doesn’t everyone have them?


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