I get myself stressed out because I try to take care of others first. Right now my blood pressure is borderline and I'm overweight and that doesn't help with the anxiety. I have recently started to take 1/2 hour a day to do a little exercise, which once I get huffing and puffing, I feel my heart racing and heavy breathing and start to think I'm going to have an anxiety attack. Sooooooo, then I have another 1/2 hour of deep breathing and trying to calm and convince myself its the exercise, not anxiety. Thats when I start thinking I should be doing something I've told someone else I would do and the cycle starts again. I'm getting better at calming now and still doing the exercises. I have to convince myself that the people I'm putting ahead of me would rather I do this now than end up in the hospital from a heart attack. Sometimes I know my husband is upset when he comes home from work and doesn't see much done around the house and he asks why, then I get anxious again, but after I explain that I was taking care of myself by exercising and then had to de-stress, I feel better, then I can dote on him a little and we both feel better. This can be such a battle! I know the people that know I have anxiety problems look at me and think I'm weak. Sometimes I feel this way too, then I remind myself that if I weren't STRONG, I would have given up long ago. Each time I have a major anxiety attack, I remind myself, that I'm usually better within a few days. I remember a sticker my son had on his computer during college, it read, "If you're going through HELL, Just keep going".