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How Chronic Stress Disrupts Automatic Breathing Patterns

I hold my breath constantly throughout the day without realizing it until I'm dizzy and gasping and I don't understand why I stopped breathing normally.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Sustained anxiety has hijacked the autonomic nervous system's basic life-sustaining functions.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Stress and the nervous system?”

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