Breathing compulsion

[auroramaple]

I feel like this is very specific but does anyone else have that compulsion that makes them feel like they can’t take a proper breath? As in it’s not a deep enough one? Sometimes I have to make myself yawn to make myself feel like i’ve had a proper breath. 
 

OCD makes us do such bizarre things..

[Handy]

You can look it up there are topics on it in forum. 

[howard]

18 hours ago, auroramaple said:

I feel like this is very specific but does anyone else have that compulsion that makes them feel like they can’t take a proper breath? As in it’s not a deep enough one? Sometimes I have to make myself yawn to make myself feel like i’ve had a proper breath. 
 

OCD makes us do such bizarre things..

Another poster did mention having breathing problems and focusing on this. I thought it might be the weather.

But it can be a part of that survival mode we go into when anxious/stressed. The heart rate increses, and unnecessary functions are shut down, but also we take more shallow breaths.