Originally Posted by
Holds1325
The anxiety wants you to focus on it, its like a bully almost, its helpless and wants attention.
Sometimes I tell people to look at anxiety as something separate from themselves, a little annoying creature standing there, trying to grasp onto them and say things like, you know you're going to have a panic attack. Its helpful to just laugh or think, yeah so what? It'll keep saying it louder YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A PANIC ATTACK? Yeah? let it come to me then.
Pretty soon this little annoying creature known as anxiety begins to shrink until finally you can't even hear it anymore.
So the trick is to just not let it get to you. I know the feelings of doom, fear and even anger are hard to ignore but just feel them and work eventually your brain doesnt even care about the anxiety and slowly begins to function as it should, focus as it should and soon enough you'll forget you were even anxious.
It takes time, practice and patience but it will get better regardless.