I wanted to know if anyone experienced stress and fighting with their spouse/boyfriend such as yelling a lot, pushing and slapping? If so, did this affect your pregnancy and how? I’m really concerned.
A psychologist I used to see taught me a great technique – well, it worked well for me…
Basically, you pick up an object – a pencil, tube of toothpaste, toy car, kitchen utensil – anything! I often used to pick up my asthma puffer because it was close by.
Then you study the object in great detail, whilst trying to breathe slowly and steadily. Focus on the object completely. Then, describe (aloud or in your head) every minute tiny detail of the object to yourself. For instance, telling yourself: it’s blue, the kind of blue you see in the sky. There are 2 angular sides and 2 more rounded sides. There is a darker cap, the colour of the night sky. It is made of hard plastic and it feels smooth, etc etc – hope you get the idea. Spend ages obsessing over every tiny detail of the object until you are sure that you haven’t missed a tiny single detail. I know it sounds ridiculous, but the purpose of it is to take your thoughts from inside yourself (and obsessing) and distract yourself by focusing on something external.
It really does work, and has saved me many times from thinking I was going to die 
Good luck, I know how horrible it can be, but it is possible to improve greatly. Please feel free to email me.
I started having panic attacks after my first child was born 6 years ago. I currently take paxil to control it. Just wondering if anyone else has panic attacks and what you do to control. I hate psychiatrists. Thanks!
What do you do to release your stress on and off the job? How do you cope everyday without getting sick?
If a person ignores extreme stress but ignores the stress or pretends it’s not there, what might happen as an effect of not dealing with it?
The person sayshe “doesn’t have time” to deal with stress, but I am worried because he seems to be “out of it” lately, kind of in a daze. He’s also muttering a few words to himself under his breath a lot and I don’t even think he notices it. He is also complaining of very bad muscle pain (tension?) in his shoulders.
What happens if a person “ignores” the fact that they are really stressed out?
I am not really sure why I’m having really bad anxiety, I just had my third baby, my husband is great, good job, nice home, but I stress about everything under the sun, I worry my kids will get sick, I think I’m dying of something, I’m scared my husband gets in a wreck, its a constant thing. I know I need to make a doctors appointment, and I will this week but I don’t want to be on antidepressants because I’m not depressed, I just worry.
I am trying to fathom whether my symptoms (regular and literal tearing out of hair, ripping clothes, crying) Huge insecurity could be connected to stress and PMT.
I have always had periods of depression but never like this.
BUT : I have had aseries of low paid temporary jobs in the last couple of years. Have been living in a renovation project, paint, dust, mess. My partner is unhappy with his work sitiation and to top, I have a low libido and his is through the roof. Am I going mental?
For example, I cannot recall much of anything about my life prior to joining the Army, which was only 4 years ago. I can only remember a handful of small events at most, and remember nobody (even apparently a girl I had dated?) that I knew before if they are not currently in my life. I know extreme stress can cause temporary loss of memory and such, but is it even medically possible to have been stressed to the point of permanent memory loss? Or is there other factors that I’m not seeing that could contribute to it?
Ive had the craziest days. Well lets just say some really bad mistake i did ended up coming out to the public and if they can prove that i was there, it could ruin everything, college, the rest of my school, everything. For the last two days i have been so scared and stressed that i feel sick and ready to throw up, i havent eaten for two days, and ive only slept a few hours. I just wondering what this constant scare and stress can do to my body. In class every phone call my teacher gets i flip out thinking it for me. Im jsut going crazy and i think this could be really bad for my body. What can happen with all of this going on?
After several anxiety attacks in a couple weeks, I have felt extremely weak and shaky, is this normal?
