Agoraphobia & Social Anxiety Support Group
Agoraphobia is an anxiety disorder, often precipitated by the fear of having a panic attack in a setting from which there is no easy means of escape. As a result, sufferers of agoraphobia may avoid public and/or unfamiliar places. In severe cases, the sufferer may become confined to their home, experiencing difficulty traveling from this "safe place."
Today, my brain is breaking. And when it feels like this, my rational thought process and ability to communicate just go out the window.
I feel like the decisions that people make around me just make me question my reality, and the responsibilities that I maintain. And then the feelings and frustration kicks in. I wonder how I am supposed to maintain rational thought process when people around me make decisions that affect me negatively.
One of the situations that is breaking my brain today, is my roommate's decision to go and spend money when he should be saving money so that he can move out of my home in a month and a half. And whether or not I have the right to be upset by his spending instead of saving.
The other situation is one that constantly is going on with work. Right after I started working for the company, the owner asks me to change the business name, which we go over options and he picks one, yet now over a year after making the change he still has not done what is required for changing the name, which is using the name that he came up with. Instead he reverts to a name that we no longer are supposed to use. (I even gave him the option when we were making the change to use the name that he calls us all the time.) And then when I try to discuss it, his argument is that is our name...and I don't have the right to tell him that. Which technically is true...I don't have the right to tell him how to run his company. And with this idea comes the idea that I care about the company that I work for and that my title within the company should allow me to be able to do things like tell him that he needs to stop referring to us as a different name or that our prices need to update to allow us the ability to do the things that he wants to do (but any time that I make a suggestion he either doesn't listen, puts up an argument about it's his company, or runs out of the office and ignores me for the rest of the week.) He has no clue how to actually manage his own time so that he can do everything he wants to, but he still wants to have the ego boost that comes with him controlling every aspect of his company.
More often then not it is mostly okay, but today just seems extra as I feel like I have to control my emotions, be able to have rational communication, cover my own responsibilities, and maintain my life style while I am frustrated about the decisions of other people and managing how I feel about those decisions, and whether the frustrations and feelings in my head have any merit on reality. Or whether it is just my expectations of the people and world surrounding me.
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Lately I've been feeling scared and full of anxiety. I recently found a lump under my nipple. I hurt my back too. I'm in the process of moving. I'm run down. Everything is hard
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Just wanted to give a thank you to Mid, Arfie, Malibumark, Greeneyes, Mlro, Girlincalif, and Suncloudjd! You all always have such helpful tips and advice, but I always forget to write on my posts when I see you post, lol. I would lose my head if it wasn't attached to my body, lol. Thank you all so much! I'm starting to use my AI app as a sounding board again. I used to use it as that before...

with the brainbreakers of relationship, it helps me to separate my facts for my feelings. two examples i might take from this very entry are:
fact: it's the boss's company. i just work there.
feeling: i might could find a better job.
fact: roomie's moving out in a month. how s/he accomplishes that is his/her business.
feeling: spending money frivolously is not how **i** would accomplish that task.
just one of many possibilities. . .
gentle support while you find what works for you.
for sure, expectations count for allot, buttttttttaaaaaa. . . how to count those lots remains confusing for me, every time. social anxiety is one confusing phenom.