Secret Poster
06-07-08, 16:26
...for me, I'm in school to get over whatever the heck I'm dealing with. My own panic school LOL. I thought journaling this out in this forum, may help me.
I'm new here, the "Secret Poster". Long and short of my issues began with a terrible car accident in 2006. I picked up driving anxiety when I had a stressful week about a month later. My grandpa died, I got my period back after being on depo for many years and I was on a birth control pill that drove me nuts..hence...the start of my pain. Just to include, my driving issues are mostly "pre-worry", I generally do fine with the driving, but have added on a few other things that bug me, like construction areas.
I've tried therapy, hypotherapy and Lexapro. I decided against pills as I hate feeling speedy and therapy has helped some. I had a panic attack 2 mos ago in front of an audience and just yesterday for no reason, I had a small panic attack at the dog park. I did deep breathing and it stopped, thank god. I have no idea why it came out at that point, I go to the dog park 5 times a week! So I tried to figure out what may have triggered it. I have been under a bit of stress in the past year, as I've been building my own business from scratch. And I think I drank way too much caffeine in the morning, and drank some weird "relaxing" drink from Target right about an hour before the attack came. (aha, no more drinks like that for me either way!).
I did drive home fine from the dog park and took one of my panic pills and just relaxed all night. Then I decided that I can control this from now on and wrote up my own Anxiety 101 lesson plan and unlike past efforts, I will follow this plan for one week and see how it goes. I do not want to go back to therapy or pills. I want to do this myself. Mind you, I came up with all these ideas from searching the internet.
Feel free to add on anything else you feel can help me, I would really appreciate it!
In the AM, I will do the following.
-cut way back on the caffeine, 90decaf/10caf
-journal
-take all my vitamins
-20 min walk
-48 oz of water
-relax with no noise for 20 min
-do some step climbing for cardio
In the PM, I will do the following.
-take a kava pill
-20 min walk
-32 oz of water
-shower/relax
I also have some relaxation cd's that I have from therapy that I will listen to when I layout on the deck. It's the only time I really enjoy listening to them.
For what it's worth, I had a longer list of issues prior to therapy, but they have gone away. My biggest issue I need to deal with is what happened yesterday, it scared me a bit. But I did learn that I can deal with an attack by breathing it down, even though I wasn't comfortable, it did pass.
I'm new here, the "Secret Poster". Long and short of my issues began with a terrible car accident in 2006. I picked up driving anxiety when I had a stressful week about a month later. My grandpa died, I got my period back after being on depo for many years and I was on a birth control pill that drove me nuts..hence...the start of my pain. Just to include, my driving issues are mostly "pre-worry", I generally do fine with the driving, but have added on a few other things that bug me, like construction areas.
I've tried therapy, hypotherapy and Lexapro. I decided against pills as I hate feeling speedy and therapy has helped some. I had a panic attack 2 mos ago in front of an audience and just yesterday for no reason, I had a small panic attack at the dog park. I did deep breathing and it stopped, thank god. I have no idea why it came out at that point, I go to the dog park 5 times a week! So I tried to figure out what may have triggered it. I have been under a bit of stress in the past year, as I've been building my own business from scratch. And I think I drank way too much caffeine in the morning, and drank some weird "relaxing" drink from Target right about an hour before the attack came. (aha, no more drinks like that for me either way!).
I did drive home fine from the dog park and took one of my panic pills and just relaxed all night. Then I decided that I can control this from now on and wrote up my own Anxiety 101 lesson plan and unlike past efforts, I will follow this plan for one week and see how it goes. I do not want to go back to therapy or pills. I want to do this myself. Mind you, I came up with all these ideas from searching the internet.
Feel free to add on anything else you feel can help me, I would really appreciate it!
In the AM, I will do the following.
-cut way back on the caffeine, 90decaf/10caf
-journal
-take all my vitamins
-20 min walk
-48 oz of water
-relax with no noise for 20 min
-do some step climbing for cardio
In the PM, I will do the following.
-take a kava pill
-20 min walk
-32 oz of water
-shower/relax
I also have some relaxation cd's that I have from therapy that I will listen to when I layout on the deck. It's the only time I really enjoy listening to them.
For what it's worth, I had a longer list of issues prior to therapy, but they have gone away. My biggest issue I need to deal with is what happened yesterday, it scared me a bit. But I did learn that I can deal with an attack by breathing it down, even though I wasn't comfortable, it did pass.