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 know the "what you resist persist" saying, and that I could try to be grateful when these feelings come because they give me a chance to work with them, but man do I not like feeling this way. I don't feel awful, but I get stucking thinking "what if this gets worse", "why do I feel like this" and then it's anxiety about anxiety that's messing with me.
I feel like this because I'm human and we all feel like this sometimes. If I can leave it at that it's uncomfortable... it's unpleasant... but it's not consuming. It's when I give the fact that I'm feeling this way my attention that it grows and strengthens and becomes something worse.
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Hey all, i know its been quite awhile since i posted on here. Its been a summer all right. Its been something else........... You know how they say not to open the can of worms? Well a few months ago i decided to find out what my due date would have been for my first baby, the one conceived by r***. My baby would have been due on March 4th of 2006. They would be 20 years old. I was R**** on June...
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My day...today...misplaced my debit card...didn't realize it until I got to the register after shopping to a full cart. Used a different debit card and pulled apart everything looking for missing debit card before I left parking lot. Got home, dropped keys. So now I have a missing debit card, missing keys. A full cartload to unload and put away. I got everything put away.Dumped purse for a...
Here's hoping you find balance in the feeling.
Feed the good wolf.
Try to distract yourself. Go about your regular daily life. Put other things into your mind... happy, positive thoughts.
And distraction did get me out of the loop. I wake up earlier than everyone else in the house. Most of the time that means I get some nice quiet time in the morning to journal and paint. But sometimes it means my monkey mind gets going and I get stuck. I guess those are the times to practice gratitude and to practice getting myself unstuck from that thinking.