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I was just diagnosed. I always geniunly thought something was wrong physically. I’ve had countless breathing tests and inhalers that don’t work. All tests come back fine, but I’m still holding my breath a lot or only exhaling which makes me yawn all day long. It’s so frustrating. I find myself thinking, in out in out. In order to calm me down. But even then sometimes I start second guessing if that’s how I’m supposed to breathe and I’m constantly trying to correct it.
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Thank you for sharing :) I totally understand how you’re feeling.
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Hey, I had this too after I had my first panic attack. Constant thinking about my breathing and feeling heavy chested- thinking I didn’t breathe in enough air. Eventually it went away when I got my school placement. Now I’m back with another OCD obsession of how noticing almost even breathing in and out movement of my chest /diaphragm. Do you guys ever get that?
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I meant every breath, in and out.
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Did either of you overcome it? I feel I think a lot about my breathing too and I have in the past a few times but not consistently
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PLEASE YOUR NOT ALONE I DEAL WITH THE SAME THING PLEASE IM HERE FOR YOU I KNOW WHAT ITS LIKE
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I’ve dealt with this for a long time. Ever since I moved here to the United States I developed a sense of being aware of my breathing where I couldn’t even sleep at night and I would jumó up around the bed trying to make the breathing obsession go away. I couldn’t focus on anything I would try to do schoolwork and my breathing was distracting me and I couldn’t focus at all
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@Anonymous This very exact thing has been ruining my life for the past year. I couldn’t stop focusing on my breathing for hours at a time- I couldn’t do anything else. I couldn’t do my schoolwork, I couldn’t have genuine discussions with anyone, forget about having peaceful alone time. I felt like I was going insane and that no one else had it. I felt like my case was unique and no one could help. It’s not as bad as it was then, but it still intrudes on my mind several times a day. Honestly, what I try to do is not really pay any attention to those thoughts (although it’s impossible at times) and it usually works. Try not to let your mind go into the anxiety mode, and the thoughts won’t stick for long. Don’t be afraid of them and let them come. It’s often extremely difficult, sometimes impossible and it will set you back in the recovery from it. In case it does make your anxiety spike, I like to say a prayer or listen to something calming to get my anxiety down. Man, I’m so sorry to hear that you have to deal with this, but you’re not alone.
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