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do any of you have anxiety disoder along with Aspeger?
If you do can you please tell me any stratergies you use to calm down when you are in an attack. I just need some guidence

Thanks

Some folks here might have a great belly-laugh over this, but I pray:

"Father, my only desire is to delight in you."

For me, meditation on the essence of that has *never* failed to quiet my anxiety.

Yup I have social anxiety. I have a few tricks my therapist taught me.

Breath really deeply in, hold it for three seconds, and then breathe out.

When I get really bad anxiety I sometimes feel like my head is clogged up and really cloudy. I like to pretend to breate up into my brain and then when I breathe out get rid of all the thoughts and anxiety in my head.

Another thing that I find helpful is to think what's the worst that could happen. I imagine the worst possible outcome and then think about why it's so bad. Usually what I think is horrible turns out to be not bad at all, and realizing that helps me a lot.

It's bad... but I use beta-blockers, usually 3 days a week... I find that they prevent full blown anxiety and also relieve the pain of making eye-contact... I dunno whether I'd actually recommend it or not... but it works for me...

I have an anxiety disorder, I'm not sure what type but I got it all the time in my teens because of all the deadlines in school, not being able to understand instructions, not being able to keep up in class in listening, changes, my family, waiting too long.


I have learned to control lot of it and now I don't need pills. Plus I am not around people as much so that helps. My husband doesn't cause it either. I don't get anxiety anymore for being stuck in traffic and I avoid situations that will cause one. My husband thinks I should get drugged but I refuse medicine right now. I am not taking any pills for anxiety that happens occasionally.

I have Panic attacks in 8th grade up until 9th grade - But they have subsided. Not I only get Panic Attacks during my weight training class (Haha, no one ever notices).

I have not idea why they don't come as often anymore.

I have Panic attacks in 8th grade up until 9th grade - But they have subsided. Not I only get Panic Attacks during my weight training class (Haha, no one ever notices).

I have not idea why they don't come as often anymore.

What is beta-blockers? I have tryed everything i no, i even tried cutting myself it got so bad

please. i am desperate

I have severe anxiety issues...A lot of my mom's side of the family has anxiety issues, so it might be a genetic thing?

I started getting them more when I was in the 10th year of school, since then, i've been getting anxieties, especially when i'm the street because I would feel that people would hate me and want me dead or whatever.... I still get these alot, especially when i'm in a very crowded space... I wish I could get rid of it though.

My therapist in the town where I go to school thinks that at this stage of my life, the anxiety disorder is actually causing me more problems than my AS traits. I think both the anxiety and the AS are doing an equal job of driving me nuts.

I know lots of techniques (controlled breathing, prayer, visualization of myself in my favorite place, etc.). Sometimes they work. Other times, by the time I think to use the techniques, I am already too far gone fofr them to help.

A book I really like is The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook by Edmund J. Bourne (http://www.amazon.com/Anxiety-Phobia-Workbook-Fourth/dp/1572244135). It took me a little over a year to work through all the exercises the first time (2005-2006), and one does have to actually do the work to get the full benefit, but it really helped. I need to go back and do most of the exercises again, I think, because so much has changed in my life. I am a very different person now, and the things that triggered anxiety episodes before are not the things that trigger them now.

My favorite breathing exercise is to slowly breathe in through my nose for five seconds, hold it for five seconds, then slowly exhale through my mouth for five seconds. Then I take two regular breaths. I repeat this cycle ten times.

I also added an unspoken mantra to it later on: "Breathing in, I calm my body. Breathing out, I calm my mind. I am balanced. I am at peace." I didn't make that up myself, but I don't remember where I read it.

Hope this helps you.

Beta blockers are a type of antihypertensive (they lower your blood pressure as well as your heart rate). People often use them for stage fright or physical anxiety. I've been on them for the last 6 months or so, and my anxiety is much better. I would get random panic attacks, with heart palpitations, so I asked my MD to try beta blockers. I'm on 50mg of Atenolol every morning. I've had no side effects, and unlike most antianxiety meds they don't make you sleepy or lethargic. Plus there are new guidelines that suggest that most adults can benefit from antihypertensives, as they reduce the risk of coronary artery disease and stroke.

^^^ Haven't seen you on here in a while! Welcome back to WP!

Regarding the OP's question, I always find that having a fun project to do, getting exercise, getting plenty of sleep, and a nice, warm bath helps me.

I prevent it if I can, when I start to wig out I will tell whoever I'm around very directly "I'm starting to lose it, I'm leaving for a bit", or if it's my kids I say to them "Mommy's really cranky, you need to leave me alone until I'm better".

I also use breathing methods. In on count of four, hold for four, release for four. Sometimes it makes me dizzy but that just gives me something else to concentrate on.

If it's really bad, I'll sit in a chair with my head between my legs, eyes shut, and hands over my ears. I just block out everything I can and then I try to hear myself breathe.

It looks really weird and if you're in public and someone bugs you just say "I'm feeling really nauseous, give me a few minutes". They usually clear out fast since they're afraid of getting puked on.

I was feeling a lot of anxiety back in September and October. I took the tough girl mask off, ditched the leather and the green gel. I've also found that I didn't need glasses to begin with. Here I was, without the leather, the gel and the glasses. I've had it in my mind that the people who backed off, over the past two years were finding me out for the first time in two years. Maybe they thought that I was a complete stranger who moved into my part of Langley. Some complete stranger from London, England. It was strange to walk to my volunteer job, without the green gel. I've picked up where I've left off, at the age of 22, in early 1997, before the Austin Powers Days. I couldn't stop looking at my refection in the mirror. I saw that same face that I knew in the summer of 1996. Was that me, or was that Mick Avory? All that I had left in late September to early October was me, the real CockneyRebel, without all the thirlls and gimmicks. I've adjusted quite well, since Mid-October. I was dealing with all this anxiety. because I was stripped of my disquises, all at once and there was this Kinks fan who looks like the heaviest and most childlike Kink. I had nothing to hide, and I've decided to grab the bull by the horns. It's been a wild ride, ever since, and I'm enjoying every minute of it.

I don't need disquises to be cool.

Funny!

My psyciatrist said that the anti-anxiety effect of the beta blockers may be a placebo but I'm not sure because they do relax me and prevent that panik feeling!

I use propranalol 40mg at the moment but they do give me a bit of a dry mouth. Also, you're not supposed to use stimulants at the same time as beta blockers so if I need to concentrate and want to drink caffeine or alcohol I try to avoid them because they have the opposite effect.

Actually I find that caffeine in itself relieves my social anxiety slightly because it seems to enable me to think a bit more quickly of what to say and stuff. Alcohol (obviously) relieves social anxiety as well to a certain extent but has the somewhat undesirable side effect that it makes one appear drunk and also has a strong odour so isn't suitable for daytime usage...

Oh and on the subject of disguises... I tend to feel slightly less anxious when I wear make up than when I don't. I think it makes it easier to act and feels as if there's a barrier between me and other people!

Maybe it's all a placebo... Sam