So when I get that horrible overwhelming feeling of anxiety/dread/panic in my chest, I’ve somehow found that when I press my thumb firmly (not too hard, not too soft) at the spot just below my sternum,  inbetween the two sides of my ribcage for about a minute or two, the feeling disappears. The feeling of the thumb being pressed there is weird and a little bit sickly, but I keep it on there until both the anxiety feeling and the sickly feeling stops and then I take it off and it stays gone. 

It doesn’t stop the thoughts, but the physical feeling disappears. It’s actually crazy. I haven’t had the opportunity to ever ask if it works for anyone else, or why this might be the case. Is it just me?