Breathe.....really you are probably holding your breathe.
One of the reactions to anxiety is to hold your breathe. Oxygen deprivation really messes with the body. Hyperventilation is not much better. It only takes 10% increase in breathing to hyperventilate. Some of the symptoms are dizziness, light headed, numbness in hands and feet and a host of other uncomfortable sensations.
https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/tc/hyperventilation-topic-overview#1
One of the groups I follow on Facebook for CPTSD posted a link to a page called coherent-breathing.
http://www.balancingbrainchemistry.co.uk/peter-smith/43/Coherent-Breathing.html
It looks interesting and I want to try it out. If anyone else has experience with this would you share your opinion, please?
I experienced myself times when I relax so completely I can't be roused or moved. Not good when I am at work.
I learned early in my healing process that breathing is key to knowing when I am triggered. Not all triggers are the obvious cause and effect. Sometimes the quickening of my breathe alerts me that danger is near.
Breathing in slowly and releasing my breathe slowly takes time and effort. Practice breathing before I am in crisis ups my chances of remembering to breathe when I am anxious at night.
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