I love to do gym workouts. But when I go from low intensity to moderate intensity, heart starts beeting stronger (I know it´s normal), but it remindes me the feelings when I´m having a panic attack and I associate with that. I think "Oh my God, please don´t start a panic attack again", and I do all the workout (around an hour) being alert. Today I could start and finished my workout program and I felt proud, although I was all hour controling my thoughts replacing with "It´s normal heart beat strong, it´s normal lack of breath, etc...). But when I´m going to home, afraid increase, because I already had a panic atack after gym that lasts 4 hours, and I had to go to urgency. Till then I´m afraid of repeating that episod.
It´s really important for me, to not give up of something I love to do, because of my problem. I would like to know if there is any advice that I can deal better with this specific situation. Thank you very much for your attention.
I forgot to mention, that after arriving at home, symptons of losing control rised and I had to take medication. It tooked around 1 hour to feel normal again.
I´m at point 2 of the program, and I started to been aware that I have catastrofic thoughts as a lifestyle since my puberty and the unexpected dead of my dad. About my health, about my work, about my relations, so now I understand why I have panic attacks since then. I´m now 39, surviving this many years, but of course tired. All I did this years was study and work, didn´t had much joy of life like laughts with friends. I almost have no friends, because I´m difficult to relax in social life. Since my 30´s I only made one new friend and it was 3 months ago. It was possible because this friend are very extrovertid and did the job for me.
Thank you for your support. At first day or two using the programm I already had benefits, I had a great saturday comparisin to previous ones that I was crying feeling alone and sad. Our brain capacity to learn is very strong (as program teaches), but from the good ad from the bad. I know I have much work ahead to change my pattern thoughts.
I´m monitoring my thoughts during the day about diferent issues, and I get surprised because"Oh my god, no one could be happy thinking all day like this".
I´m avoiding to get out of bed in the morning since ever I know me. When I´m in bed I fell in a protected shell and I don´t care what´s happening outside the world, I´m in another warm world. When I get up I feel bad because I know that I miss apointments, arrive late at work, etc, etc. Every night I promisse myself I will get out of bed in the next day in hours apropriatre, but that doens´t happen. I feel guilty all day, mad with myself and that I have no control on a simple thing that everybody does.
It could be just one or two thoughts challenged each time, but decrease general anxiety. For me, it are teaching to be more kind to myself, I finded that I talk to my self with very bad manners, because I feel frustated. My anxious thoughts made me loose a lot of things in life and situations.
I´m at point 3 of the programm. Till now I dind´t find the key to get out of that state of mind where I don´t care for anithing. I just get up when I´m very tired of being on bed or feel bad on stomach. I feel good when I have social life, but my anxious thoughts stop me to make new friends. So my life is very grey, I´m too much alone. So I don´t wan´t to get out of bed for another boring day work day or weekend day.
Just to mentioned that level of panic during and after the workout have been suprisingly decreasing, using the program. Last day, at middle of my workout, suddently I remember that I usually have panic attacks in that situation. I become nervous, next I made a physical symptom check, and have nonne. I get worried, I stranged that everithing is fine, "I´m not used to be like this", "this can not be true", "this must be the silent before the storm". Fortunatley everithing continued fine and I could finished my workout well.
I would like to know if this happen with more people, becoming nervous just because everithing is fine. I so used to my rotine of catastrofic feeling all the time for so may years, that I get also afraid, or with a foot behind, to live in a diferent way, healthy way. I feel that is a place that I never been as an adult person. But I´ll continue fighting for it.
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