January 8th, 2025
8 Jan 2025 · page 1225 of 1306
Happy new year! Fight these plants.
Cast: Nicola Barber, Nyree
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"pfeh I breathe all the time already"
has nicky tried yoga
Nope. Not her type of thing at all.
Yeah, having my breathing meddled with always upsets me. I've never had this supposed “calm” they expect to appear.
As a kid I fell for the “you'll get it when you’re older” line, now that I'm older, what I get is why old people get all feisty & rude when you tell them to “just breathe:” they're mad about having gotten suckered as kids.
Same for me! Breathing exercises always just make me panic harder.
I think the idea was to focus on something you can control, and to fake breathing normally if your instinct is to hyperventalate
Though I am of the opinion that sometimes you need to get through that hyperventilation stage first before calming down is reasonable so...
One way to get through the hyperventilation is to pass out from oxygen overload.
I mean...you're definitely calmer after that...
She tried that already!
I think the purpose of breathing exercises, which maybe does not come across well, is to take DEEP breaths. Getting enough oxygen tricks your body into thinking things are find and calming down, but shallow, panicky breaths just keep the panic going.
I always thought the active deep slow breaths was to try and prevent hyperventilation, or super-fast short breathing, which is a common occurrence when panicking and the hyper-oxygenation of the blood it causes usually serves to make panic attacks worse
Yah... I have pectus excavatum, and my autonomous nervous system is way better at regulating my O2 than my conscious mind, so thinking about breathing tends to put me on the verge of asphyxiation. Very calming.
"Calm" is not Nicola's natural state.
Perhaps if you were to give Captain Barber a hug…
…or perhaps not.
Perhaps not yet.
Some people are tightly wound, like a spring.
She's several mattress's worth.
The problem is Captain Barber doesn’t have her nightstick. She’d soon calm down if only she could give something a sound thrashing.
This is funny but it kind of portrays Nicola as a rather petulant child
Do you tell her.