Hello Michelle,
You are not alone...my panic attacks almost always become €œvisually€ evident when I start to cough, gag and almost (or sometimes do) vomit. The back of my tongue tightens up and almost feels like its backing down my throat.
One trick I've found that sometimes helps me is to stick my tongue as far out and down as possible...like Gene Simmon from the rock group KISS.
I find it helps to stretch the muscles at the back of my tongue and throat...of course I only do it while I€™m alone or with someone who knows what I€™m doing.
It€™s kind of funny as well, so it sometimes makes me laugh which also helps me to relax.
Ry
Having strange, shocking and disturbing thoughts is definately part of my disorder also...but what I have found is that I would never really act on the things I think of, they are just one of thousands of possibilities of things I could do or things that could happen... its like our minds work too fast for our processors...heheh its like someone overclocked our minds, so our bodies start locking up like a computer...I guess I dont have much advice, but perhaps comfort in the knowledge that your not alone. It helps me to talk about these things with my boyfriend... he laughs with me at some of the strange things I think of. I find comfort in that, that these thoughts arent a big huge secret that I am carrying around...and that we can laugh at them. That means alot to me.Good luck
Hi Michelle,
When I am anxious, I get really scary thoughts, thoughts that I may harm myself even violently start stabbing myself or that I'll drive off a cliff, the thoughts themselves are really scary but I believe that this is part of anxiety and we have to learn to not be so shocked by our thoughts, there just extreme responses to our emotions that will pass.
Angela :)
I was just diagnosed with GAD. Anyone get anxious and/or scary thoughts? I was coming down the stairs this morning and I was terror stricken that this anxiety will escalate and I will try to hurt myself. I started to gag and almost vomit. Is this part of anxiety?
Michelle
