Help me with "Situational Anxiety"?

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Help me with "Situational Anxiety"?Recently I have been experiencing intense Anxiety before I go exercise, and afterwards. The only way I have been able to rid my stomach from the anxious feeling is to gag myself. I feel better then go running. After I finish running, it doesnt take long for the anxious feeling to return. How do I stop the compulsion to gag? I dont want this to turn into an OCD issue.

I can't get no satisfaction
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go to the doc and get anti anxiety pills. go.

Rob
medication may not be the answer (well maybe). I have similar anxiety issues, only mine is all the time, and although after gagging, you kind of feel better, i have an "extreme fear" of vomiting, its hell for me. So that doesn't really work for me.

I was perscribed Celexa, an antidespressant (they some reason said would hel my anxiety, although i'm not depressed) and it made the panic attacks go away, but still have nausea when going out anywhere and i can't stay anywhere for an extended period of time as my home is my "safe place" and anywhere else i'm extremely uncomfortable.

Have you ever tried to just sit and kind of...not really meditate, but just relax? I tried that and it helped just a little bit, sitting on the carpet, amnd just thinkin of hippies...happyness...everything wonderful, and it kind of relieves the anxiousness and such. maybe you could try that? before you go out to exercise you could sit and just try to be in a lovely state of mind, and continue to think about it as you start walking or jogging or whatever. and when you come home, you could do the same thing again. oh and 1 part of the problem is you think about it. Like before you go to exercise, you expect the problem to come, and almost...wait for it. or if you come back once u get back home you might wait for the feeling to set in again. (try not to do that, take your mind off stuff!)

I hope that helps a bit, keep expirimenting on things before you go out to run or whatever every time, maybe you'll find your answer after a couple different things :D

good luck!
~Rob~

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