Help I feel like I am drowning

[saii]

This has only started recently (maybe since I have been spiraling and thinking about CBT a lot ) but I wanted to ask if this happens to other people as well, when I get really stressed or depressed or feel like I want to CTB and actually since that's all the time so I feel like this a lot, I have a feeling like I am drowning and can barely breathe. I also get an awful pain in the chest. No matter how much I try to breathe I feel like I am about to asphyxiate. I have been wanting to CBT and have been depressed for years but this is new. It's also not a form of a breakdown I don't think since I have experienced them many times but I am not sure. Does anyone know what's up with that or deal with a similar thing? And is there anything I can do to decrease this effect since it's really bad and prevents me from doing anything when I get stressed.

 

[butimbleeding]

Simply put, yes I get a debilitating feeling like this as well. I feel like I'm drowning and I just want it to be over and pass out, yet I keep bobbing up for a slight gasp of air and then going under again. I can't do anything when this happens, but anxiety medication sometimes helps a bit.

I know we aren't going through the EXACT same thing but I appreciate the way you described it. Best wishes

 

[saii]

Simply put, yes I get a debilitating feeling like this as well. I feel like I'm drowning and I just want it to be over and pass out, yet I keep bobbing up for a slight gasp of air and then going under again. I can't do anything when this happens, but anxiety medication sometimes helps a bit.

I know we aren't going through the EXACT same thing but I appreciate the way you described it. Best wishes

Yeah, it sucks so much, likewise wish you the best and really hope it gets better for you, wouldn't wish it for my worst enemy. And thanks, I didn't realize meds might help with this so I am going to ask my psychiatrist hopefully get me something.

It fucking sucks that it's like a feedback loop, I get stressed, start feeling like I can't breathe, get more stressed, and feel like I am drowning and can't do shit about it and so on.

I mentioned in another post that it sucks that our minds feel like they want to die but our bodies don't let us and want to live. But maybe this is a way of my body trying to kill me since it's not thoughts but something actually physical.

 

[butimbleeding]

Yeah, it sucks so much, likewise wish you the best and really hope it gets better for you, wouldn't wish it for my worst enemy. And thanks, I didn't realize meds might help with this so I am going to ask my psychiatrist hopefully get me something.

It fucking sucks that it's like a feedback loop, I get stressed, start feeling like I can't breathe, get more stressed, and feel like I am drowning and can't do shit about it and so on.

I mentioned in another post that it sucks that our minds feel like they want to die but our bodies don't let us and want to live. But maybe this is a way of my body trying to kill me since it's not thoughts but something actually physical.

No problem, a low dose of benzodiazepines can possibly take the edge off during those moments, or some people find antidepressants (can help level anxiety too) make it less likely for those moments to occur in the first place. Your psychiatrist will know much more/better than I do sometimes it doesn't take much to feel better

Yes I've lived that feedback loop. I'm a sensitive person who doesn't deal with stress well and it just sinks me deeper.

I do hope one day my body will share my mind's desire to die. I think that's the interesting thing about when someone overcome survival instinct and make an attempt, it's like their mind and body is finally in unison. I've never got to that point but we'll see what the future holds.

 

[saii]

No problem, a low dose of benzodiazepines can possibly take the edge off during those moments, or some people find antidepressants (can help level anxiety too) make it less likely for those moments to occur in the first place. Your psychiatrist will know much more/better than I do sometimes it doesn't take much to feel better

Yes I've lived that feedback loop. I'm a sensitive person who doesn't deal with stress well and it just sinks me deeper.

I do hope one day my body will share my mind's desire to die. I think that's the interesting thing about when someone overcome survival instinct and make an attempt, it's like their mind and body is finally in unison. I've never got to that point but we'll see what the future holds.

I like that description, and I have been on antidepressants (Specifically escitalopram) and have not seen any difference if I am on them or off of them, I think about it and I think it started recently after a episode and a pretty bad event that happened with my family so maybe its related, but I have an appointment on Monday so we'll see what happens.