Can anxiety cause you to not be able to catch your breath in the shower?!


Question: Can anxiety cause you to not be able to catch your breath in the shower.?
can the steam do something to tighten your nerves or muscles.?Health Question & Answer


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The shower sometimes raises my anxiety level, which could be happening to you and you could be having the symptoms of anxiety like hyperventilating.Health Question & Answer

Negative emotions (like sadness, stress, anger, etc.) causes your Serotonin production to be low; when your Serotonin level is low, you are more prone to getting Anxiety, Panic Attacks, Depression, etc.

Medication like Antidepressants (SSRI - Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor) helps to boost Serotonin level.
But there are natural ways to do it without medication. There's this strange herb called "St John's Wort" - it is said to be more effective than Prozac. No, it is not for mild depression only and ignore those sayings. In fact, it does help anxiety and panic-attacks as St John's Wort works like prozac. Other natural ways will be exercise, diet, more exposure to light, etc.

The problem is that, even if your Serotonin is balanced... you have that "learned behavior" in your mind. You need to break that initial cycle to destroy that learned behavior - Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) does this. A technique that you can use without CBT will be Distraction... There are several other techniques to help cope them!
Ok, to use Distraction: Firstly, try to....

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Anxiety can take your breath away at any time no matter were you are. I use to have it really bad like when i was 15-19 then i just got better over those years, it still comes and goes but now i know that it will go away and everything will be ok, i would tell myself that it is something that will go away in 5 minuets and i would be better.Health Question & Answer

Im not to sure what it is but it has happened to me before, but if its all a daily basis i would go see a doctor.Health Question & Answer



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