I should start by saying I still struggle some days, in fact, I’m struggling today. However, I have been doing SO much better than I was over the summer.
In June I had a bad experience with some marijuana, I had a “bad trip” and had a panic attack, freaked out, thought I was dying, blah blah blah. After that I was having multiple panic attacks a day or panic attacks that lasted full days. My parents were taking time off of work to be with me. I stayed with my grandparents for weeks on end because I was scared to sleep alone because I was scared I would die in my sleep due to one thing or another, it was always something new.
In July it reached an all time low, I didn’t eat for two weeks, I saw multiple doctors (some good, some bad.) and therapists just in the matter of a few weeks. I couldn’t go do anything at all. I was a mess.
By August I began my road to recovery, I was only having one or two panic attacks a day, I was sleeping at night, I started eating, I was able to hang out with close friends and family, I began to find pleasure in things again like music or being with friends.
Now September, I am down to maybe one or two panic attacks every two weeks, if that! How amazing. I’m so proud of myself.
So how’d I do it? How did I get there? The thing that helped me the most, which you see in every post like this I feel like. If you can get yourself to a point where you can make yourself not freaked out by the symptoms of a panic attack, your body will stop making those symptoms. One day I had just got over a panic attack and a new one was coming on, my arms began to get tingly which normally freaked me the hell out but that day I was just annoyed and fed up so I told myself that this happens every time and it’s just my anxiety, it was just nerves. I breathed until it went away.
Some little things that helped me get here
- writing in a journal every night 3 good things about my day.
- spraying a spray bottle of water in my face ( I know this sounds silly )
- laying on the group with a fan pointed at me
- taking a cool shower
- listening to really loud music and singing along no matter what
- calling somebody talk
- spending time outside
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