"I Asked You For Mercy--You Gave Me a Gun..."

[psalm_onethirtyone]

Oh, my God, I am totally panicking. I am hyperventilating. I am sitting right here very still and I can't breathe and I am breathing too fast and choking on it and I don't even know. God, what is wrong with me?

Comments

[lucullean.livejournal.com]

oh baby no! calm! be calm. <3

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

I can't I can't I can't I can't

[lucullean.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

do you want to talk about it?

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

I don't know I don't know why even. It wasn't that bad a day. I don't know why.

[lucullean.livejournal.com]

ahhhhh.

breathe deep. deep. don't let yourself get caught in the hyperventilation. put your head between your legs if you need to.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

head between my legs? what does that even do?

[lucullean.livejournal.com]

you know, i can't recall offhand, but that's what they always told us to do for panic ;)

(so i always do. it seems to help, but maybe because i think it will?)

eta: oh, obviously, oxygen to your brain so you don't faint.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

okay. okay.

[assimbya.livejournal.com]

Love you, dear. You'll be all right. Breathe. Read. Do whatever you need.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

*wrings hands*

[tinyammmy]

I once read that twenty breaths completely changes the airflow in your body; that is, after twenty cycles of inhale and exhale, all the air in your body is new.

I don't know if that will help you, but it often helped me calm down - visualizing that it was all changed out.

<333

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

is that true?

[tinyammmy]

I think so! And the calming me down part absolutely is.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

*counts*

[theatre-angel.livejournal.com]

I love you, I love you, I love you. Hang in there. ♥

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

*holdstotight*

[tomecatti.livejournal.com]

*hugs tight, though late* It'll be okay. It'll certainly be okay.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

It's much better now.

[tomecatti.livejournal.com]

See? I told you! After the fact.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

♥