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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Anxiety and feeling unsafe in my body

User_273
User_273

I have been struggling with my anxiety lately. I have always felt unsafe and uncomfortable in my body, and with recent events, this has only worsened. I do not know how to feel connected with my body while also feeling safe when intrusive thoughts flood my brain. Does anyone have thoughts on how to help this? 

Anna1212
Anna1212
I know some simple things like getting outside for a walk, talking to a friend or someone who cares about you about how you feel, trying to relax by taking a long bath, ... I don't know much else about it but I think I have some idea about how you feel. If you can get involved with some activity that you like and engrosses your attention, that is good too.
BlueYonderDreams
BlueYonderDreams
Yoga is supposed to be really good at making you feel connected to your body. I'm going to start it this month hopefully.
arfie
arfie
hello user. welcome to daily strength.

a single tool can't possibly cover my own anxiety smorgasbord. social anxiety, work anxiety, performance anxiety, ptsd anxiety, et al, all respond to different tools.

when i need to figure out which tool to pull out of the box, i often start with a post very much like this very thread. over the course of working the thread, i often sort which dynamics are at play and how to balance and/or counter them.

for what it's wort
in my own therapy sessions, we call that feeling uncomfortable and/or disconnected from my body, "dissociation." we call the intrusive thoughts and that unsafe feeling, "hypervigilance." take those symptoms as a signal that my anxiety is escalating. time to step up the anxiety management to amber alert.

but that is me and every case is unique.

steadying support while you find what works for you. welcome aboard.
ccleaver
ccleaver
Intrusive thoughts can be helped with Spravado
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