Hate to get technical with everyone but there is research about human interaction having a chemical effect. The effect is supposed to be in a neuromodulation called oxytocin. Google yourself into to health this time by looking the neuromodulator up, it is a good news thing instead of goggling yourself into a bad news. Red I hope I did not annoy you with my last post, about working out I meant it is something that I found my mind was telling me the opposite of the truth. Thanks for putting the fear in me of ignoring my mind and working out instead, which could lead to heart failure. Just kidding I hope you have a sense of humour in trying to live your life, if there is one thing that people say that has changed in me, it is that I laugh again. Although I find sometimes when I make I joke and start to laugh I look inwards to the way my body feels and think how I could be laughing when I feel rotten. As you said, I do not try to find the answer out anymore. This one for Davit also I analyzed in a positive way for a change.

Dizzy

Hi Red, I want to share some things I have learned despite having an attack every day. I preface this with, that what I am about to tell you I no way means you should do the same or think the same way.

1)      The hallmark of any anxiety disorder is avoidance, no matter whether it is panic attack disorder, PTSD, phobia, social anxiety, OCD, and GAD. In panic attack, you avoid a situation or thought and situation; in a phobia, you avoid snakes or spiders; in OCD, you avoid germs them you try reduce anxiety by acting compulsively when washing your hands; GAD avoid anything that causes worry or anxiety; finally PTSD you avoid the thoughts of the situation. There is one thing that I know that once you start avoiding one thing its mushrooms in to more. Perhaps your Pandora ’s Box is somewhere you should look when you are up to it and maybe you should ask for some help outside the panic attack center if you think it would help.

2)      I have learned that when I feel exhausted that most of the time it is just my mind telling this and that in fact my muscles are quite able to do what I think they cannot. Again, I preface this with when I started challenging the tiered feeling I started out with a 15 min walk. It has taken me 1 and half years latter but now I can pump weighs to the point where I cannot tire myself out. Then I can do 30 min on the bike with 8min going uphill in the same day. Again sometime my mind tells me I too tired and I cannot achieve all these things mention above but I will still lift weight and maybe bike for 20 min. in any case I do not listen to what my mind tells me about being tired.

3)      I am sure you know that felling are not facts, nor are thoughts and sensations. The feeling one I explained above but I can add that when I have an attack every day, that everything I do is coloured with the after effects of an attack, making whatever I am doing seem as if was anxiety related when it is just the reminisce of an attack. Doing the 10 question paper should be enough to tell you that you thoughts are not fact, in most cases they are judgements about you anxiety or other things; and the judgements’ are not true either if you challenged one with 10 questions and came to a different judgement. Finally, sensation I know this one is hard to believe but if you had an attack and you feel, hot from it you may say I feel feverish. However if you took your temperature you would find out that you do not have a fever. Or another one when I have an attack I say it causes head pressure it actually feels as if my head is being pushed upward, I can tell you right know that I am not getting taller when I have an attack. Finally back to being fatigued this is just a thought for me most of the time there are the rare occasions when I do not do much working out.

Do not take what I have said as something that you should do I have just found these things to be true for me. Your friend,

Dizzy