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A very hectic and "Having a week" type of post

theblueumbrelladream
theblueumbrelladream

Hello Everyone, 


I hope you are all doing good, better than me at the moment. 



I have been having quite the week. To start, I had my first panic attack in a long time on Sunday Night and it left me feeling numb and exhausted for the rest of the night and much through yesterday. (I took it easy on myself yesterday and did whatever my body thought it needed.) What triggered my panic attack? Heartburn. Heartburn from something I ate and would not go away. It lasted to long and my body got scared, which then triggered the panic attack. Do I think it could have also been a build up of stress? Probably. Anyways moving on from that, today has not been a good day either. I've just had a lot of conflict with others today, stuff they say to me without thinking their words and hurting me. And me just having to feel like I need to take it because they don't understand how they're wrong. 


I feel like I'm just tired of always having to be the emotional towel. I do it for my parents and others, and I always find that it tired me out. I've also been dealing with some other conflict with my sibling which doesn't look like it is going to get better and it both saddens me and angers me that there is nothing I can do, but I guess that's just life sometimes right? I just feel like I have a lot going on and have no time to process every emotion I feel or what to do. I sometimes just feel like shutting everything out and just laying in bed with no one bothering me. 


I know this is just a week. And it may be a bad week, but it's not a bad life. I just think I need to de-stress and just find balance for myself. Could also be that my panic attack this past weekend has hindered some stress on me as well. I know I'll be okay in the next couple of days. 


Thank you for hearing me out. I hope you are all having a better week than I am currently. 


-Blue


arfie
arfie
I'm having such a week, too, Blue. I'm blaming ^it^ on the covidic chaos, the full moon and the season change. One scapegoat is as good as another.

Plying therapy tools. . .

Breathing with you. . .
Community LeaderMid
Mid
Repeat after me: I am ONLY responsible for what I say, do, act, react, and respond.

I am NOT responsible for what others choose to say, do, act, react, and respond.

When I change my response to fit my improving well-being, it may often change their usual response to worse before it improves. It does NOT become my problem, it's theirs (problem, choice, decision).

The more I put me first in giving care to my well-being, the easier it will be to keep to the facts, evidence, and provide clear headed and calm choices.

Taking the step back releases the stress and lets you find the better balance in the current moment.

It's hard to let go of 'giving care to others'. However, you have to take care of you first.
HopingCxn
HopingCxn
Thanks Mid, that clear reminder is helping me today,too. It's been months, but I'm working out of my second anxiety attack in 2 days here and suddenly struggling to find words for anything
theblueumbrelladream
theblueumbrelladream
Thanks guys, It was a rough week indeed for me. And I'm still learning how to focus on my own actions instead of worrying about the actions of others. It's something difficult for me to do, but yes. Thank you
mtd
mtd
Why suffer through heartburn until it brings on a panic attack? That I just don’t understand. With the many OTC remedies that are totally safe it seems to me you put yourself through needless suffering.
theblueumbrelladream
theblueumbrelladream
@mtd: By that point, not even a heartburn otc was going to prevent me from having a panic attack. I know now that my panic attack wasn’t only caused by the heartburn but from a combination of other factors, and the heartburn was just the final straw. (I was already feeling a sense of doom since before i felt the heartburn at the restaurant). I tend to overthink whenever my body feels something out of the ordinary even if its something as small as heartburn. So that, plus not having direct access to an otc at the time (at the restaurant and on my way home) made me feel scared. Maybe yes, I could have taken an otc heartburn relief with me, but the thing is i didnt expect to have heartburn from what I had because I have had it before with no heartburn afterwards. This heartburn likely wasn’t even that bad, my body just wanted to protect me from god knows what other factors that stressed my brain, but focused all of its energy and thought on how it felt at that point and said “Well this seems like a good reason to have one” and it happened. So no i didn’t purposefully put myself through “needless suffering” i can’t control where and when my body doesnt feel well, especially when there are other factors affecting me as well.
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