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 Spouse

mattiemae52
mattiemae52
How do you deal with your anxiety when you realize your spouse/loved one is starting to have problems with it. I don't want him to feel the way I feel and it scares the liver out of me. I don't know if I could handle/help him if he starts feeling this way too.
lance139169
lance139169
Spouses sometimes struggle with their partner's anxiety because they want to help, but can't. Sometimes we create this atmosphere because we look to our spouses, expecting them to help when they just can't do it. They become frustrated, and it goes on, and on.

In my opinion you should talk to your spouse and tell him that you know that he can't fix your anxiety, but you need him to just listen.
fgray12
fgray12
My wife has the same problem as me.It helped my illness because now we both know how the other one is going through. If you have never had the felling then you can't really know. Now we talk about it and even more important is we listen. It has made us closer. I know it sounds crazy but that's what happened. I have even selected some friends that have it to for the same reasons. It's like haveing your own personal support group. This may sound weird but in a way I'm glad.
I don't feel alone anymore and we get lots of hugs.
mattiemae52
mattiemae52
Thank you fgray12. It just frightens me that I won't be able to help him.
laurie32
laurie32
you should talk to him and ask him if he have a problem with you. if he do you and him can work it out and fit it. maybe he can help you with your problem that you have
mattiemae52
mattiemae52
I guess I need to explain a little. He isn't having a problem with me and my anxiety. I am having a problem worrying about what if he starts having anxiety issues (which he has told me he is but not bad). We have been through a lot since the first of the year. Deaths, divorce of daughter, and Spring is my trigger.
fgray12
fgray12
You will be able to help him. Because you will understand what he's feeling. Just be honest about everthing and don't try to pretend it will just go away. The more you listen the better you will both feel.
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