anxiety of the next attack

i’ve learned to control myself and all that somewhat but i can’t stop thinking and thinking, i overthink, i think about when my next attack will be and then i panic over my next attack causing an attack.. i’m slowly getting tired of it.. i hate having to rant to my boyfriend about this because he doesn’t deserve all this weight on him.. i want to be able to fight this myself.. everytime we talk it’s always about my attacks.. but he’s the only one that calms me down a little besides having to calm down myself..

Username: NinetaNineta

Date posted: 21w ago

I’m so sorry, I’m feeling the same way, even though I’m feeling better I’m afraid of my next panic attack and because of it I get panic attack… I don’t know how to handle it yet I wish I would help you.. I just want to let you know that if you are not alone in this 🥺 hang on there 🙏

Username: Rodrigo GierRodrigo Gier

Date posted: 21w ago

This feels like some sort of " meta OCD". I've been there. I used to panic like " this is all fake, I'm fine, but I'll have a relapse soon". But the thing is, yeah, maybe we will relapse, but that's fine We don't have to hate anxiety. It is just a bad feeling, that we can surely deal with. This fear will come and go, and you don't have to do anything about it Again, anxiety is just a feeling. You can deal with it.

Username: WilliamAndrivonWilliamAndrivon

Date posted: 21w ago

Hi! I also have this fear and I don't know if it's a good way to face it or it's again a compulsion but it works for me: when I have this fear, I tell myself "I give up my fight and my desire to fight my anxiety and to prevent my panick attacks". I noticed that when I stop fighting mentally about doing everything to prevent another panick attack, my brain doesn't fight anymore with the obsession, as if I surrendered, and then all the anxiety and the fear drops. I don't know if I'm clear or it will help 😊

Username: WilliamAndrivonWilliamAndrivon

Date posted: 21w ago

And of course, as the anxiety and the fear drop, you won't have another panick attack. It's a little "manipulating" the obsession and your brain.

Username: Sfx16

Date posted: 1y ago

sorry..

I’m laying I bed crying my eyes out don’t really know why, I’m just so so tired of overthinking 24/7. I think it’s got to a point where it’s overwhelming and I feel alone. I feel like people around me don’t understand, I mean they try, but they don’t really understand… I’ve had ocd since I was very young and I’m 26 now and trying to deal with it, it’s getting worse day after day. I don’t know what to do anymore I’m just writing what I’m thinking right now, sorry about that, I think it’s actually calming me down I have like thoughts about my relationship, I want everything to be absolutely perfect all the time, my boyfriend knows about my ocd but doesn’t understand I don’t like to talk about it to him because I’m scared it will push him away He’s going to come home soon and being like « hi I’m crying I don’t know why » I don’t want him to think that I’m just negative

Username: OCDiscruel

Date posted: 1y ago

Panic attacks

I spend a lot of my day just waiting for another panic attack to hit me. I live with anxiety about having more anxiety. Some days I do well and then I get tired from work or whatever and then it feels like my brain struggles to stay positive and have peace.

Username: flowerpetals

Date posted: 30w ago

anxiety attack

i’m just getting over a pretty bad anxiety attack. it also started when i was making food and a wave of nausea hit me which of course sent me into a spiral. however i started thinking about how i’ve really neglected actually trying to work through my fear and thoughts over getting sick. because i’m so hyperfocused on getting my harm thoughts to diminish and be gone, i haven’t been doing the same for my contamination. i’ve pretty much diagnosed myself with emetophobia. and i know that’s so unhealthy to do especially as someone who’s not diagnosed with anything, but there’s absolutely no way in hell that i don’t have it. i cannot remember a time where being sick wasn’t on the forefront of my mind. and i do physical compulsions for it, but i never really thought i had intrusive thoughts over it. but when this (and past plural) anxiety attack was happening, my mind was telling me “if you just get sick, you won’t have to worry about it?”. then i took a zofran and am having thoughts of “the nausea will come back and you’ll get sick”. my heart is pounding just thinking about it. over the summer when my harm thoughts got extreme, my emetophobia essentially became a backseat thought. where it was still there but i wasn’t that worried over it. and i wished for it to come back but now that it’s here, i would do anything for it to be gone. i’m so back and forth because at least this anxiety is (mostly) keeping me from getting sick as i do anything and everything i can to prevent it. anyways, i’m so sorry this was so long but i had a lot on my mind that i needed to talk about. so much love to y’all 🫶🏻

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