Anxiety Support Group

Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...

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Acceptance of anxiety and O.C.D.

codymama
codymama
Why is so hard to accept mental disorders? I have a lot of physical disorders and I don't think about them. I am anxious over having anxiety and O.C.D. When I have a good couple of weeks I think that I am cured and then whammy it hits me again. Can anyone relate? What have you done to help you accept having these disorders?
Becky
Edger
Edger
I also have anxiety and OCD. My therapist has told me that anxiety is like a dimmer switch. It goes up and down but not away. She also said that the way you accept your anxious brain is "One day at a time"'.
It's hard to do. I try reminding myself that most people have something in their lives that is a constant problem or struggle. My anxiety is making things difficult for me today. And it has been mostly low recently.

Barbara