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Posted 10/11/2015 7:58 PM (GMT -5)
Does anyone ever find that it is extremely difficult to concentrate on what you're doing when you're having an anxiety attack? Also does anyone find themselves having so many anxiety attacks that you just continue to do what you're doing right through them? Almost like "oh boy, here comes another one."
Ugh
Posted 10/11/2015 9:02 PM (GMT -5)
Yeah, anxiety is pretty much all-consuming when it happens. It's an attention seeker. But yes, I have had times when I would have so many panic attacks in a row, I began to ignore them. One time I was eating dinner at my parents' house and I kept hyperventilating and involuntarily shaking while continuing to eat. They were like "oh my gosh, you're shaking, are you alright?" I was like "yeah, I'm just having a panic attack." It was like my 5th one that day so I was over it. hehe
Posted 10/11/2015 9:12 PM (GMT -5)
Even after suffering for about 4 months now i still have a hard time believing these are anxiety attacks! Some last 15 minutes.. Others last for hours on end? What I tend to do throughout them now is think to myself? God I can't concentrate-the must mean I have ADHD-what if I have bipolar disorder?-then I can't beat this without medicine-but I'm scared of medicine-then I lose it lol my neck has been tightening itself for no reason lately! I'm assuming it's adrenalin. Anyways thanks for the insight haha I'm not alone!
Posted 10/11/2015 9:33 PM (GMT -5)
Yes, and yes!

I have re-read the same paragraph a dozen times over before...my concentration was so non-existent

...and conversely, I've successfully run a recital with over one hundred students performing whist panicking...

...so yeah, those two scenarios can co-exist! ;)

S.C.
Posted 10/12/2015 3:08 AM (GMT -5)
Hi

Yes I find it difficult to concentrate while anxious but I think you do get used to it and it is best to just push through and not let your anxiety beat you down.

Hibee
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