How do i relieve my anxiety/ panic attacks?
I started having anxiety about a year ago as i was involved with marijuana. After a instance of smoking marijuana a year ago i had a panic attack and i felt sharp piercing pains in my heart chest area and i couldn’t breath at all without having those sharp pains. I was rushed to THE ER AND thought i was about to go THRU something life threatening but i was ok AND THEY told me to get a heart monitor…
After a year later, a day ago i was taken to THE ER because i felt sharp pains n trouble breathing, racing thoughts, and increased heart rate and i thought i was gonna die from a heart attack even though i was healthy, slim, n not smoking. It was a year after i stopped THE marijuana use… I was diagnosed with having anxiety and a panic attack… How do i get rid of THE SHARP pains, anxiety, n panic, and panic attacks….? 
PLEASE ANSWER:(…. cause its not fun being this way and i honestly appreciate THE responses and help FROM anyone if u can provide me with any… 
Thank you…
You can be sure that if you are experiencing anxiety chest pains, it’s not a heart problem. The chest pain is a symptom of an anxiety disorder. Anxiety chest pains are evident in probably 80% of anxiety sufferers at some time during their disorder, and they go away immediately with an anxiety reduction.
You don’t necessarily have a disorder, but you have definitely had anxiety attacks. Using marijuana your first time seems as a proper stimulus, you were probably overly anxious and just got uneasy. The second time might have been triggered by something obscure, but still the proper technique for treatment (to which you probably don’t have heart problems) is to take it easy and try to calm yourself.
Don’t let anyone tell you that you need therapy or medication to cure anxiety chest pain, and while you may feel desperate and prepared to take anything to make your life easier and the anxiety more bearable, medication isn’t the solution.
While anxiety chest pain can be sharp, dull, in the center, to the side or all round the chest, it can extend into the neck and shoulders, round the back of the head and down into the stomach area. Anxiety chest pain can come and go, come and stay or twinge occasionally. The thing about it though, is that the chest pain is common and completely harmless. In fact, it usually turns out to be nothing more than muscle pain, indigestion and sometimes nerve pain, all caused by the underlying anxiety disorder.
"Because several of the symptoms of an anxiety attack (also called "panic attack") are similar to those of a heart attack, the former is often mistaken for the latter."
The symptoms of anxiety attack will positively respond to panic-control techniques. Deep breathing and relaxation exercises, switching the focus of thoughts to humorous or pleasant events or ideas, doing math problems or counting can all draw your attention away from the chest pain and other symptoms of panic attack, usually within a few minutes.
So take a breather. Relax!
Good Luck!
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Comment from Lucero N
Time February 16, 2010 at 6:33 pm
Negative emotions (like sadness, stress, anger, etc.) causes your Serotonin production to be low; when your Serotonin level is low, you are more prone to getting Anxiety, Panic Attacks, Depression, etc.
Medication like Antidepressants (SSRI – Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor) helps to boost Serotonin level.
But there are natural ways to do it without medication. There’s this herb called "St John’s Wort" – it is said to be more effective than Prozac. No, it is not for mild depression only and ignore those sayings. In fact, it does help anxiety and panic-attacks as St John’s Wort works like prozac. Other natural ways will be exercise, diet, more exposure to light, etc.
If you’re unable to take St John’s Wort, you can substitute it with Siberian Ginseng or Licorice Herb.
The problem is that, even if your Serotonin is balanced… you have that "learned behavior" in your mind. You need to break that initial cycle to destroy that learned behavior – Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) does this. A technique that you can use without CBT will be Distraction… There are several other techniques to help cope them!
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Comment from Chris
Time February 16, 2010 at 5:52 pm
You can be sure that if you are experiencing anxiety chest pains, it’s not a heart problem. The chest pain is a symptom of an anxiety disorder. Anxiety chest pains are evident in probably 80% of anxiety sufferers at some time during their disorder, and they go away immediately with an anxiety reduction.
You don’t necessarily have a disorder, but you have definitely had anxiety attacks. Using marijuana your first time seems as a proper stimulus, you were probably overly anxious and just got uneasy. The second time might have been triggered by something obscure, but still the proper technique for treatment (to which you probably don’t have heart problems) is to take it easy and try to calm yourself.
Don’t let anyone tell you that you need therapy or medication to cure anxiety chest pain, and while you may feel desperate and prepared to take anything to make your life easier and the anxiety more bearable, medication isn’t the solution.
While anxiety chest pain can be sharp, dull, in the center, to the side or all round the chest, it can extend into the neck and shoulders, round the back of the head and down into the stomach area. Anxiety chest pain can come and go, come and stay or twinge occasionally. The thing about it though, is that the chest pain is common and completely harmless. In fact, it usually turns out to be nothing more than muscle pain, indigestion and sometimes nerve pain, all caused by the underlying anxiety disorder.
"Because several of the symptoms of an anxiety attack (also called "panic attack") are similar to those of a heart attack, the former is often mistaken for the latter."
The symptoms of anxiety attack will positively respond to panic-control techniques. Deep breathing and relaxation exercises, switching the focus of thoughts to humorous or pleasant events or ideas, doing math problems or counting can all draw your attention away from the chest pain and other symptoms of panic attack, usually within a few minutes.
So take a breather. Relax!
Good Luck!
References :