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 am writing this to hopefully get others input about this subject. I see a lot of videos and posts on social media about people that deal with anxiety, I think it's great to bring awareness about mental disorder for many different reasons but the biggest is to make us feel like we are not alone in this madness. But what has really annoyed me for years is all the posts I see it's always talking about how anxiety is "obessing over a mistake made", or "being strong for too long". How come no one addresses the physical symptoms that we feel. How come no one says how some days it's literally painful to get out of bed because some times gravity can be really heavy, especially when you spent all night long tossing, turning getting almost no sleep and when you do fall asleep your having nightmares and waking up abruptly. How come no one says how some times your heart beats so fast it hurts your chest and you feel like it's going to explode or your going to have a heart attack, then your face gets hot, your hands clam up, you start to feel dizzy like you might pass out and all those feelings are scary so you panic more which in turn makes your heart beat faster and a million horrible "what if" thoughts go through your head. How come no one says how it could be a beautiful day and your in a great mood and just driving to work, then out of no where a metaphorical black cloud comes over you and dumps a bunch of horrible thoughts that at that moment you can't rationalize are just scary thoughts and not real and probably won't happen but you can't help but obsess over it anyways. You start to panic, shortness or breath so you get dizzy which makes you panic more because you are driving and try your best to act "normal" so no one notices your freaking out but internally your screaming wondering if you should stop driving and wonder if you should call someone to help you. By the time you get to work you can barely walk straight from being dizzy and you could use a nap because a panic attack takes a helluva lot out of you but you go into work anyways and push on with your day. I could name a million other scenarios which I have been a part in and a bunch of scenarios I have heard other people experience but I think you get the point. How come no one mentions any of this? It's not about "breaking because you've been strong for too long" it's a switch we can't shut off and the physical symptoms are painful and tiring. I believe we need more awareness of this does anyone else agree?
One of my non-psych meds causes dizziness and I am going to find out if it can be switched out.
Also practicing "mindfulness" , Google it and decide if you are getting actionable information or are they trying to sell me something. Try it, I now just catch myself when my thinking is bad and "ruminate" as to what will make me feel better instead of dwelling on the negative. Experiencing moderate success & going to continue. Hope this helps.
We still have to get on with things. Plenty of people have to go to work after no sleep for whatever reason. They might have just been told they had cancer.
Anxiety sucks and it's exhausting, but the more we can teach ourselves to go through it WITHOUT thought, the better. A rabbit has more anxiety than you do, but he doesn't have a name for it, and he doesn't see it as abnormal. For him, it's a survival mechanism.
For you it would be too if you can shut it off when it's not required. And that takes growth inside you. That takes working out how to deal with each and every trigger. If there are no triggers, there is no bang. So work on the triggers.
Anxiety is for most people self-made. It's how we live that causes this, how we analyse our problems, how we deal with our issues. So we can't really complain if it's awful. If it's awful, we actaully have to address it.