Does breathing help anxiety?

0 votes
asked Jul 11, 2020 in Mental Health by StoneWolf (300 points)
Does breathing help anxiety?

2 Answers

0 votes
answered Jul 11, 2020 by achmyouse (2,360 points)
Yes breathing can help calm you during your anxiety.

If you're suffering from anxiety then breathing in slowly as in breathing in and out and repeating that while sitting down and relaxing the breathing in and out slowly can help calm you and your anxiety.

If you're having a panic attack then you need to try breathing in slowly and if you start hyperventilating try using a paper bag to breathe in and out.

Although we need to breathe to stay alive it is possible to breathe too much.

When you breathe too much it's called excessive breathing and when you're breathing too much the excessive breathing creates a low level of carbon dioxide in your blood.

That low level of carbon dioxide in your blood is not a good thing because it causes hyperventilation.

Hyperventilation can be caused by a panic attack, severe anxiety or a medical problem, such as bleeding or infection.

Usually nothing serious happens when you're hyperventilating and breathing into a paper bag can help with the hyperventilation.

However if you think something more serious is going on then call 911 just to be safe.
0 votes
answered Jul 20, 2020 by RobertPolson (3,960 points)

Sometimes breathing helps me. As a rule, meditative breathing is good to use in a familiar place or just at home. It relieves an attack well. But everything goes differently when I'm in a public place where there are a lot of people. I can't concentrate and I'm even more nervous. I take cbd plus in such cases. This herbal sedative works well for both anxiety and panic attacks.

98,443 questions

94,802 answers

1,270 comments

6,992,728 users

...