Hi guys,
I’m experiencing this weird thing lately then I’m too anxious to breath in anxious moments. Lately things aren’t go so well, because of negative experiences outside my house. I have generalized anxiety which is at his highest outside. It’s really a struggle, because after a negative experience it makes it even harder to get back at it and I’m really worrying about myself that again it went bad.
Okay, this thing about breathing I am not really familiar with and it is something that I didn’t really experience in the past, at least I wasn’t aware. In stressful and anxious moments I’m too afraid to take a breath. It’s like the opposite of a hyperventilation, but the only similarity is that the breathing pattern has a lot of hitches. It happens when I feel very uncomfortable in my surrounding and it triggers a lot of anxiety. When I’m for example walking out of the place it’s a bit less, but it has triggered panic which isn’t really less. Any tips for this? I tried breathing exercise in public, but I’m in such a panic that I don’t always have the focus on it.
Another question. My anxiety is now to high to go to the hairdresser. It’s a too big of a step for me atm. It sound silly, but it’s a big deal. Because of a massive panic attack I had in the hairdresser I created massive anxiety to take the step to go inside. How can I deal with such a negative experience and have a positive mind? I wonder what you guys do if this happens to you. I even thought of a hairdresser which can cut me at home, but I’m thinking that I’m a idiot if I do so.
I’m such a thoughtful person, I hate it. It’s something I created as a self defence meganism. It belongs to me now, but I wish I was just a little bit less aware. It’s that I have such a low self esteem that I can’t let it go. I don’t know what to do with it, but this is my main problem.