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 Stress!!!

Vince3789
Vince3789

I mentioned before (I think a couple of days ago) that I was dealing with some stressful situations. In the past couple of weeks it was (Boom!) here's something to deal with and I would think that I'm over it. Then, the following week (Boom!) here's something else. I forgot that stress and anxiety are weird things to track. Like, I could be feeling fine for days and then (Bam!) I have had palpations and anxious feelings for the past few days! Oh no, is my heart about to fail (even though I walk/run up three flights of stairs almost every day or walked for over two miles the other day. I start to associate/overanalyze them with every single thing I do and want to easily fix the problem, without realizing that I don't handle stress well. Then, I self-diagnose on Google, and drive myself crazy!


I can get a grasp on anxiety pretty well, but stressful situations...just take a lot out of me and I'm going to try to find a way to get better with it! Because, stress will always be there, I just need to find a way to kick its butt!


Ugh! I know I have to ride it out, just hate the feeling so much! Haven't had an anxiety attack in so long...but at least I know what it is. Does anyone else relate to this annoying feeling?!


Peace, love, health, and happiness!


arfie
arfie
i relate, but i remediate. stress and anxiety are part of life and i seem to be more sensitive to it than your average bear. hating on this fact of my life only adds another stress to the plate, even when i can keep the hate levels to mere annoyance. life is as life is, not as i would have it.

ply self-care and therapy tools here. . . then get back to the peace, love, health and happiness.
Bobby5000
Bobby5000
One step is to realize that most stress is not productive. Periodically someone can use stress for motivation. But recognize here stress is generally disabling and unproductive. So the first step in my view is to recognize this, saying I would do a better job if I weren't stressed.

So realize you will be more productive if you were relaxed, This may seem obvious but there is a little suggestion in your post that stress or anxiety is needed because the situations are challenging, but stress doesn't add to solving them. When you're calm, think about taking anxiety out of the program, and that you will try as best you can and let the chips fall as they do.
Vince3789
Vince3789
Thanks arfie! I'm coming around and starting to feel better.

Thanks Bobby for your advice!
mtd
mtd
Have you considered using the acceptance method for anxiety? Created by Dr Claire Weekes. Give her a research and get her book, Hope and Help For Your Nerves. It’s done me a world of good, best tool I have found for dealing with anxiety.
danalynn
danalynn
If I tell you I am exactly the same as you...Ha! Reading this reminded me of how I react to stress as well. We respond to that Fight or Flight response that saying was made for Anxious peeps like us:) I was also doing great now My sister and I had a falling out yep Anger here we go old faithful palpations and restless sleep. I go to my oh what if I have irregular heart beat or high blood pressure?
Then I get busy and forget I almost died again lol Deep Breaths we are all here to comfort each other.....Hugs to You!
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