Is there a way to overcome social anxiety without medication?
Monday, April 26th, 2010 at
3:37 am
I have had social anxiety and depression for 5 years now. I know medication can help me but i don’t have medical insurance and i cant afford to buy them. are there any special techniques or breathing exercises that can help me overcome this a little if not completely?
Filed under: Panic Attacks
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I’m actually now starting to gain power over mine. I started o slowly put myself in situations where my anxiety gets set off (going places with lots of people, being the center of attention). Then I breathe through it until I’m okay. In order for this to work you have to breathe into your stomach. Breathing into your chest won’t do much because the breaths that relax you are the ones where you breathe into your stomach. I’ve found that if you can control your breathing, you can control your anxiety! Try it out and feel free to shoot me an email to tell me how it goes. You can do it!
Anxiety sucks in the way that the only way to help lessen it is to put your self in situations that make you anxious. Not throwing yourself into your worst nightmare but just exposing yourself to small situations that make you anxious and figuring out your thought pattern and what about this situation is telling you that its going to be bad.
You find with situations that make you anxious your mind starts telling you something bad is going to happen and you will not be safe. So figuring out why that happens and really just saying to that part of your mind that it will be ok. Anxiety is tough stuff. Keep going though
There are lots of tips and tricks when it comes to preventing and managing panic or anxiety attacks. I would not be surprised at all if your anxiety and depression are linked. Therefore, cure the anxiety, and everything else should fall into place. Good luck.