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- 12w
I’m so scared
Can someone help me? I was trying to clean my daughter’s car got hot and got anxiety now all I can focus on is my heart rate and it doesn’t feel good and I am freaking the f out!
Can someone help me? I was trying to clean my daughter’s car got hot and got anxiety now all I can focus on is my heart rate and it doesn’t feel good and I am freaking the f out!
EXPOSE!!! Maybe something is wrong!🤷🏻♀️ Take deep breaths…you got this!!!🫶🏻🫶🏻
@pickles516 I’m freaking out cause my heart rate has been 80’s to 100’s.
What’s your fear?
Try taking deep breaths, sit down and drink water. And just focus on taking deep breaths for at least 2 to 3 minutes. Unless something is really wrong, it sounds like you’re having a panic attack. I have them all the time. If this starts to happen regularly, I would get an Apple Watch or a fitness tracker to monitor your heart rate when you do get the attacks so that you know it’s decreasing when you’re starting to take the deep breaths.
@Pdxsgdmsb I agree. It sounds like a panic attack probably brought on by getting hot from the weather. They suck for real, but the good thing about a panic attack is they have a beginning, a middle and an end. If you concentrate on breathing, relief will be felt! YouTube the calm breathing bubble or a box breathing video
The same thing happens to me when my heart rate gets high - I look for little “non-distractions.” I acknowledge “Okay my heart rate is higher than I’d like it to be right now but what else is going on around me.” I typically try to look for things in my environment that I typically wouldn’t notice (getting outside helps with this) like a bird, a flower, a cloud, etc. I find while doing this won’t necessarily decrease my heart rate, the anxiety I feel around it decreases substantially. Hope you’re doing better now!
Get back to what you were doing after you calm down a bit. Cleaning your daughter’s car, give yourself a few mins and a few deep breaths and don’t let OCD interrupt you any further. And for practicality turn on the AC while you clean if you are somewhere hot.
My thoughts are racing again. My psychiatrist thought it was a good idea to lower my Clonidine dose, I don’t know why she thought that. I feel like I’m going crazy. I can’t stop panicking or freaking out or anything. I can barely eat again :( it feels like my nightmare from a few months ago when I first got bad is happening all over again. I feel so scared. My brain won’t shut up or stop thinking about what to freak out about next. I feel like I’m on fire, my skin is hot to the touch when I spiral. I can’t stop spiraling
I’m very overwhelmed anxiety been through the roof
So today I’m getting my car back from my grandparents bc it had no ac and they fixed it for me the day I gave them the car I was having ocd bc I touched a little tree air freshener no the air freshener itself but the outside of the wrapper and then I touched my steering wheel and I didn’t clean it before I gave it to them and I was having really bad ocd that day about it and now it’s coming back because I’m getting my car back today and I have a cat so I’m just always overthinking bc of her with the things that have chemicals on it common sense makes me feel stupid for feeling this when but I genuinely get overheated having to pick up this car today because I don’t wanna deal with it and it’s hair wash day and laundry day and I feel I should clean my steering wheel and ik I’m gonna have to wash my hands a million times and everything I touched after touching the steering wheel like my phone and the car handles and my front door handles. Should I just try and not do these things bc it’s common sense that doing all the this is necessary but I feel I need to I know I’m just needing reassurance I know I need to do nothing but I always stress about my cat and I go to the laundry mat to do my laundry so I don’t wanna be sitting there overthinking about my steering wheel bc I could of just simply wiped it down but I don’t wanna repeat the cycle of giving in to my ocd
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