Weakening an Anxiety Attack

GTDumas

 I recently experiencing an anxiety trigging event, a hospital visit. From prior experience I could expect a bad week of anxiety…post traumatic. I immediately started doing a self compassion mediatation where I imagined myself going into the hospital (triggering event hospital visit to granddaughter), going up the elevator, walking down the hall and seeing other very sick babies and then entering my granddaughter’s room and seeing all the machines uses to keep her alive. I then imagined giving myself self compassion for finding this really hard.

I repeated this meditation everyday for 10 days. Of those 10 days I had only a day or two of post trauma anxiety.

Faced with this situation in the past I have waited to help myself only after my anxiety is so strong I need to seek medical help.