I may have posted this before...
I was diagnosed w/depression and panic about 16 years ago. It's gotten better.
But whereas I used to hyperventilate when I felt like I 'couldn't breathe good', now I think about my breathing, just think it, and it sometimes happens. If my mind isnt occupied, it will go to my breathing. And I think about how slow I should be breathing and how much time should be between breaths (I dont count out it seconds or anything; I just breathe rhythmically). So it becomes NOT automated but a controlled thing.
HOW do I stop thinking about it? All my "downtime" (as my therapist calls it) is occupied w/these thoughts. I just want my mind to be blank when I'm relaxing, not thinking about breathing!

Does anyone have any techniques or even a med that helps w/the thoughts? I'm currently on (and have been for quite a while) Prozac and Xanax.

Please!
Thanks