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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Asuncion86
Asuncion86

How does everyone else manage their anxiety? I get self conscious and anxious around others. I focus on different feelings in my body like my leg or foot. Thoughts trigger different physical sensations and I get caught up in the feelings. I'm constantly self conscious when around others. It robs me of peace and confidence. Currently I'm not working and I don't know how I'm going to return to work feeling as I do around others. 

Tired
Tired
I have had social anxiety my whole life. Therapy with a good therapist helped me.
Community LeaderMid
Mid
Practice stop, pause, breathe, calm and repeat until you find the calm that works.

This helps, no matter where you are.
L_James
L_James
Thanks for sharing your experience. One thing that’s important to remember is that you don’t need anybody to validate you, you’re a whole person and you are good enough without the need to seek approval. It doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks, it’s about you concentrating on healing yourself
mtd
mtd
I don’t have social anxiety per say, but I do tend to avoid people at times. I’m also in recovery, and one of the things I’m working on is the avoidant behavior. For instance, I walk my dog every day and so do others in my neighborhood. If I see someone walking toward me, I don’t try to avoid, but rather tell myself it’s ok, all I have to do is be myself and be pleasant as we pass each other. If I see someone I know in a store, I remind myself of the same thing, be myself and be pleasant, that’s all I can expect from myself. I’ve found this to be helpful and it breaks the avoidant behavior.
arfie
arfie
This very post could work as the first step in my own anxiety management. My own social anxiety is fierce enough that I worry about setting up defense strategies, just in case my chickens are gossiping about me. A running inventory of my current symptoms helps me keep whatever psychotherapy tools I need for my current symptom handy to keep those symptoms from escalating. My own lifelong anxiety is fierce enough that I am seldom symptom free. When I let that be okay, those symptoms are far easier to catch and remediate before they take charge of my life.

Of course, there is nothing justy in that process. Some days it is fiercely hard work, but ? ? ? I works with what is available.

Keep venting, Asuncion. Your own answers are in there.

Listening. . .
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