Posted by William77 on June 25, 2004, at 15:55:33
In reply to Re: What is Anxiety?, posted by benzapp on November 25, 2001, at 23:48:51
And as far as "anxiety" making you more perceptive.. again..general anxiety..reacting to something. This is good. A full blown attack is NOT this, and if you're going to write about perceptions...this is exactly what gets CRIPPLED during an attack.
It is dangerous to be out on a jampacked highway and sometihng like this happens and you can't pull over...you are operating with little oxygen, and you are operating from the suffocating perspective of tunnel vision. See how this is not acceptable?
Your not talking about a dissorder when you talk about simple reactionary anxeity that makes us alert and dictates our responsiveness to our surroundings. Anti-anxiety medications to not impair that, they ALLOW it in people who's senses are not hightened but IMPAIRED by an attack.
If you can capture the feeling of suddenly falling backwords in a chair while you have to fake your way upright through the day, and that is one of the initial edges of an attack. Hopefully the physiological outbursts everywehre else in the body don't even get a chance to happen...but they very well can. I've tried to live around it, tough it out for 35 years despite treatment.. and that's enough. I can do breathing exercises til my face turns blue, but Fevers and extremely low body temperatures and digestive desctruction aren't tools they are situations that can no longer be ignored.
The sad part is, I was actually relieved when it got that bad, so I had some "proof" to the people who thought I was consciously over-reacting to something out of the blue.
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