 [ Symptoms ] i am full time college student want to lose some weight been having anxiety attacks is it still okay to exercise  when i told my parents about it my mom asked me if i am getting enough air through my ribs i did not know   the best discriptions to descripe what i was feeling is that it felt like my ribs are crushing in me   i am way over weight and want to have a better lifestyle and start exercising  i am wondering if it would be okay to exercise consider my past with anxiety attacks   my record of anxiety attacks counts as 4 or 5 from august to december [ Disease ] i did not realize at first that bi polar disorder had many variations but it does i am still not clear on all the types in your case i guess it would depend on what you went into the hospital for and the diagnoses at that point i really do not know enough about you and i am not a medical person to say for sure if you were having a depressive episode or have a depressive form of bipolar disorder it could be either keep a good doctor as consistant as possible and keep asking questions education is sometimes one of the best forms of medicatiion too