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Mysterious shortness of breath: What has helped you?

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@marcuscurypko

I now think it's likely that my SOB is anxiety related, but weirdly, I don't feel stressed or anxious. The onset occurred during a hugely stressful period of life and despite a lot of the stressors going away, the SOB has not. What's your advice for dealing with sub conscious anxiety?

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Ye marcus I’m glad to hear you’re opening yourself up to this possibility. You don’t feel stressed or anxious EXCEPT around the breathing symptom. That’s the whole point, this is your anxiety more so than this is “caused” by anxiety. I’ve wrote many messages on how to let this go away forever. Anxiety paradox on instagram as well as dare anxiety, Shaan kassam on YouTube, Claire weekes book. All free resources don’t worry I didn’t spend a penny. It’s acceptance, that’s what you need. It’s natural, it’s not some whacky solution like think of this or that to get rid. You feel the symptom and you have a choice to show importance or unimportance, choose unimportance. You need to just stop trying to control or better this and fully engage in your life (you can’t live a life like your sick or it shows importance still, you see). People don’t like the solution because they want a quick fix that makes them feel like they’re in complete control but this solution is really quite great because your life is the prize. You’ve been not fully living it while you had this cause it either caused you to think it was dangerous to live normal or maybe just kept your focus all day every day. Well you don’t have to anymore. Live your life. Stop trying to make the anxiety better. It happens when your brain doesn’t see it as a threat, and this happens when the brain forgets, and this happens when you genuinely stop caring in your conscious mind. Acceptance is passive. Don’t think you can just get this perfect first week/month. Look at the resources I told you.

Disclaimer that I am not a doctor or therapist. You and your doctor are in charge of your health. This is just how I recovered from physical anxiety which I thought was soooooooo real like everyone else