Why do quick, deep, breaths cause a feeling like a high?
In: Biology
because you’re hyperventilating and you’re body doesn’t like that.
what’s cool, though, is if you intentionally hyperventilate, your hands will eventually become painfully numb and your arms will spasm. the numbness will creep up your arms, almost like when they fall asleep in the middle of the night. we called them “t rex arms” when I got my wilderness first responder cert. if you can stand to not panic and prevent yourself from actually hyperventilating, it’s a cool experience. if you think you’d freak out, you could have a friend be a breathing coach for you to calm you back down.
that’s why it’s important to help someone who’s having a panic attack… the breathing is a relatively “easy” thing to fix, but it can go sideways and scary real fast if they don’t understand going on.
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