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 is just a feeling!

Edger
Edger
I'm trying to live by these words. Anxiety doesn't mean the feared thing will happen. And if it does I just have to cope with the situation as best as I can. My anxiety is relatively low right now. But just won't go away totally. I'm hoping thinking this way will help me. Maybe it could also help some of you.

Barbara
Restful
Restful
You brought up an excellent point. Anxiety is just a feeling, as strong and powerful as it may seem. Feelings are not facts, and chances are that what we fear will never really materialize. If it does, I think it is supposed to bring us to a different understanding, and eventually a better outcome. Too bad it's so hard to practice these concepts every day.
anxietypath
anxietypath
Anxiety is irrational fear - its essentially delusion - which is no more than twisted, distorted fear. All anxiety is no more than a single thought in our head - this thought may trigger the "fight or flight" mechanism, which in turn releases adrenaline - which causes the physical sensations that we associate with fear.

Do not just say these words to yourself - the way to create recovery is to empower yourself. Learn to manage your thoughts - and learn not to respond to anxiety driven thoughts. I used CBT and Exposure Therapy myself. And meditation has helped me tremendously in fine tuning my recovery.

I wish you peace.
salvatop
salvatop
It's all about changing your thinking, easy to say, very hard to do. I agree with AG, CBT is an excellent therapy to help you change the way you think. Also DBT Dialectical Behavior Therapy, which is a subset of CBT is very good. Hugs and good luck.
kenznoel
kenznoel
Yes! So true. I always tell myself that my thoughts are irrational and everything is going to be fine. Doesn't always work but sometimes it helps a little.
koolman
koolman
It sure does help me, Barbara, thanks. Anxiety sure is a feeling, a feeling of being out of control, which comes from us being distracted, in the shuffle of life, from what is truly important to us. Relax and meditate deeply on what is truly important and tune out the rest, which is useless intellectual clutter.
koolman
koolman
I find DOING something, particularly physical exercise, is a great way to dig BENEATH the irrational fear that may be haunting us and find the survival animal beast within, a beast that WILL deal effectively with whatever the problem we're having is, and work through that problem, with assertive communication and brute force. We have to PUSH. Push ourselves and push each other. Dig deep and push.
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