How do you deal with anxiety attacks?
Basically, the heart rate goes up, the fingers start shaking, and the voices and the heart rate end up in a vicious cycle. The voices drive the heart rate up, and increased heart rate drive the voices up. Five hours of dread and fear. Every week. Because of quitting Clonazapem 4 years ago.
Outside of those moments, I am free of symptoms.
It very rarely happens to me but it did a few weeks back. So i sat with it and acknowledged how i was feeling and did not try fighting it.
That helped somewhat.
I know what you mean. But, when the voices tell you to harm others, there is no way accepting what they are saying, you have to fight them? And, it gets worse because you fight them?
I use benzos. 
I take my Ativan.
Meditation. Ommmmmm
Dam, that is the reason I am getting them in the first place. You know, quitting benzos…and I am never going back on benzos after I realized what they were doing to my brain after quitting them.
How do you meditate?
By feeling the sensations of breathing, or by systematically focusing on what I feel in a body part, then moving on to the next part, or by focusing on what I see, then what I hear, then what’s happening in general, then what I feel. I use other methods, but those are some solid ones.
Also, it helps to sit up straight or lie down.
For how long in one go??
I recommend 20 minutes at a time.
I should’ve mentioned, it’s helpful to feel the breath in a specific part of the body.
I take my hydroxizine
I will take a Clonazepam usually but sometimes splashing my face with cold water seems to help too. This is part of the TIPP skill in DBT therapy.
One time I gave my wife a heimlich maneuver in a restaurant and after she could breathe again I was still pretty upset so I went to the restroom and splashed my face with cold water and it seemed to calm me down quite a bit.
practice slow breathing in and out…hold something like a polished stone or crystal in your hand and focus on that with your eyes closed, or gaze at something stationary like a soothing painting or so…it takes practice…good luck.
I simply try to not to fight it,
I let myself be scared, anxious, and then it slowly disappears.
And sometimes I try to change my thoughts into more calm and relaxed ones (whatever it not always helps but…)
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