Anxiety and POSITIVE CHOICES Community Group
Learn the skills to conquer overwhelming anxiety from physical to emotional coping. We can choose how we feel and think, you just have to be willing to make those changes and commit to them.
Good Morning to All!
I'm surprised I am the first one checking today. I guess I shouldn't be. Seems that many of us are doing better and on the weekends, maybe with significant others at home, we don't have the time to jump on DS first thing. That's a good thing. :)
I hope this group continues even if those of us on here today get better and move on. This group and DS have been so helpful to me. I remember at the beginning of this setback and feeling so alone. My husband read about DS so I popped on. The first thing I did was what many of us do and I looked for reassurance that all my symptoms matched many other people in the Panic, Agoraphobia, and Anxiety groups. This helped me beleive that it is just anxiety/panic and I don't have some sort of incurable disease. I had hope!
Then, I looked for cures. I've done all the stuff from our home page and I think all has helped me get to where I am today. I also read several books and have been going to counseling and taking low doses of xanax daily.
Now I've come to a point where I still have a low level of worry and anxiety that still keeps me from being able to not react when I think of going out in public. I still wonder and make up scenerios that "might" happen.
I am concerned that this is as good as it gets. I think I am almost at the point where I was before the setback...managing the anxiety and having safe areas, etc., maybe at 70-80 on a scale where 100 is free of daily worry. I want to be free of this!
Betsy
I'm surprised I am the first one checking today. I guess I shouldn't be. Seems that many of us are doing better and on the weekends, maybe with significant others at home, we don't have the time to jump on DS first thing. That's a good thing. :)
I hope this group continues even if those of us on here today get better and move on. This group and DS have been so helpful to me. I remember at the beginning of this setback and feeling so alone. My husband read about DS so I popped on. The first thing I did was what many of us do and I looked for reassurance that all my symptoms matched many other people in the Panic, Agoraphobia, and Anxiety groups. This helped me beleive that it is just anxiety/panic and I don't have some sort of incurable disease. I had hope!
Then, I looked for cures. I've done all the stuff from our home page and I think all has helped me get to where I am today. I also read several books and have been going to counseling and taking low doses of xanax daily.
Now I've come to a point where I still have a low level of worry and anxiety that still keeps me from being able to not react when I think of going out in public. I still wonder and make up scenerios that "might" happen.
I am concerned that this is as good as it gets. I think I am almost at the point where I was before the setback...managing the anxiety and having safe areas, etc., maybe at 70-80 on a scale where 100 is free of daily worry. I want to be free of this!
Betsy
hang in there!
you will be free before to long!
i love this place!
its my shelter in the storms i go through!
i love everyone here, and there my second family of hope!
i dont know where i would be, or what i would have done without ds!
its been my refuge from my misery.
were getting stronger all the time..
its called growing.
bren
I am definately so much better but it's hard sitting here each day wondering if this is as good as I will get. Always having to struggle. I try and distract myself. I just want to be able to say, "I want to go to church this Sunday at 9AM and be able to get up and out and not be anxious and scared and annoyed by early morning (normal) noises.
I'll get there!
Betsy
Betsy, yes, many of us are doing much better, including you! I find I don't need this group the way I once did. But, that doesn't mean I don't need it. My needs have changed as I've changed. I thought of taking a leave from coming here altogher, but found I couldn't. I still need the friends I've made here! I love coming and seeing how everyone is doing.
You won't always have to struggle and this isn't necessarily as good as it's going to get. Right now you are starting to doubt yourself and I think we all go through that too. Hang in there, you are going to be fine!
love & hugs
Char 0:)
Betsy, you are doing great- don't worry
this gfoup has helped-I am able to ignoe anixiety cues
Have a great day
betsy i totally understand where you are comeing from i think im at that stage too at the mo, but i live in hope that one day i will be totally free of it for good but in the mean time im happy to continue going forward on my path to recovery xx
It will get better Betsy!! And you are doing all the right things.. including all the help that you are to so many here.. to me that was part of the therapy!! The re-enforcing of all your strategies and the multiplying of self-confidence as you transfer what you have learned in the hopes of helping others.
You've worked hard and you've done all your homework and you will continue to reap benefits and things will continue to improve. Sometimes you might feel that you have reached the height of your improvement.. just like in any goal.. then something happens to push you over a bump and you see a whole new side of things. That's the thing with personal growth.. it does not really have an end.. you can keep striving and there is always tomorrow.
xxx J.
I am going to go to a Sports bar with friends who were with me right before this setback. We were in a restaurant and I was so scared and panicky.
We were in the Marietta Square for dinner and we sat next to a window and the combination of all the cars moving by the window outside and the noise and trying to concentrate on our company...it was awful.
I think I will do better tonight.
...aaannnd since DS is off for 12+ hours any minute now, ya'll will just have to assume I did well :D
Betsy :)