
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...
I would start with volunteering a few hours a week. If I could work at 16 with my severe social anxiety and working with the public and manage to do a good job, you can at least volunteer part time. Face your fear. The worst that can happen is you have a panic attack and have to leave. Everyone has heard of them. You could just be honest.
Im off now by choice but my anxiety has not been good and i really wish i didn,t have to go back.
But then staying at home i can get in a rut and deppresed, i have to force my self to get up and out of bed, ive moved my computer upstairs and joined curves which forces me to get up and join in with life.
I have a new job now and I am actually doing very well. Im' blessed to have a job that keeps my attention and I work only 4 hour shifts 4-5 times a week. I KNOW that once I start leaving early or making excuses it is all over cause it's just easier to do it the next time. If I have a panic attack I MAKE myself just calm down and keep going and if I can't calm down I just tell myself that if I have a panic attack I'm not going to die or anything and I will be able tell myself that I did my shift even though... if I start giving in then it just gets harder and harder. This time around I told my boss during the interview and thought I wouldnt' get hired... turns out she gets them too and is so so so supportive. I am blessed with my job though cause I know a lot of people there and it is a christian nursing home... I feel cared for at work for the first time because I DID let a couple people know. Just knowing that they know keeps me from panicing... it's like I released the *keeping it all in* valve. If i was at home I would get attacks anyways and feel depressed that I wasn't working. WE MUST PRESS THROUGH IT.