MarCPatt
Well-known member
My answer to fearfull is very important to all social phobics out there. I think that we can probably help ourselves a lot by learning how to breathe correctly.
This is what I wrote to her/him:
Yes, I sometimes feel that I am about to faint when around too many people, or people I am not used to.
I found a good site that may help you and all the other SPs out there that have a similar problem. The site is:
Healthy Breathing by Rosalba Courtney-Belford
... Healthy, strong people breathe less at rest and during sleep, but they can breathe ... Stress, anxiety and emotions all stimulate our breathing rate and heart rate ...
http://www.buteyko.com/media/healthy_breathing.html
This site states that:
a) "Most people whose body, mind, or spirit is out of balance will hyperventilate or overbreathe with lots of short breaths that leave them depleted of CO2 and therefore not utilising oxygen properly. Good breathing, according to the standards of medical texts and the World Health Organisation is about four to six litres of air per minute."
b) "The better you breathe, the less breaths per minute you need to take."
c) "12 breathes per minute would be the upper limit of what you should be breathing. Less than that is better."
This is what I wrote to her/him:
Yes, I sometimes feel that I am about to faint when around too many people, or people I am not used to.
I found a good site that may help you and all the other SPs out there that have a similar problem. The site is:
Healthy Breathing by Rosalba Courtney-Belford
... Healthy, strong people breathe less at rest and during sleep, but they can breathe ... Stress, anxiety and emotions all stimulate our breathing rate and heart rate ...
http://www.buteyko.com/media/healthy_breathing.html
This site states that:
a) "Most people whose body, mind, or spirit is out of balance will hyperventilate or overbreathe with lots of short breaths that leave them depleted of CO2 and therefore not utilising oxygen properly. Good breathing, according to the standards of medical texts and the World Health Organisation is about four to six litres of air per minute."
b) "The better you breathe, the less breaths per minute you need to take."
c) "12 breathes per minute would be the upper limit of what you should be breathing. Less than that is better."