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What's it called when someone begins to manually breathe and puts much focus on it? sometimes i do this. what's best treatment. i know it's not normal

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Interesting: Breathing is an autonomic thing. "manual breathing" as you characterize it may be a psychological action brought on by anxiety or thinking outside the box allergy. That person should see his/her family physician to get to the bottom of this and make any referral to specialist if warranted.

Dr Petruska agreed

Answered 9/29/2016

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