I get anxiety attacks fairly often, where I’m not necessarily having anxious thoughts but just have the overwhelming feeling of plummeting on a roller coaster. 

When I’m at home, I usually just surrender to it and let it pass. I lay down completely still and breathe through it, and I’m ok after a while.

But if I get them in public or around friends, I don’t have the ability to breathe through it. Short meditations don’t work, 5 things I see and 4 things to touch doesn’t work. I can’t just dunk my face in ice water when I’m in class.

Does anyone have any advice on good ways to help this? I’ve read the rubber band thing but I used to do that when I wanted to SH and now I associate it with that.

(Also, my friends are very supportive and understand my anxiety, and they try to help. But having any attention called to it makes it worse and can cause me to meltdown, so I want to find lowkey ways to handle it myself)