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 that continues..

casey37
casey37

My anxiety continues and is affecting work quality which creates more anxiety.  

GreenEyes727
GreenEyes727
Hi casey! Anxiety does suck. Do you take any meds or supplements to help with your anxiety? They really help me. Look into diet and anxiety too. There are many videos on all sorts of subjects on YouTube.
arfie
arfie
hello casey. welcome to ds. sorry for what brings you here, but glad you are here.

my own anxiety is a self-perpetuating cycle which escalates with discouraging ease. i often like to think of worry as a rocking chair. it gives me something to do, but it gets me nowhere. alas, some days i get that worry chair rocking so hard that i do get somewhere. i rock myself a few centimeters deeper into the grooves i've rocked beneath my rockers. on those days, i only wish i was off my rocker.
casey37
casey37
I have looked into many medications with not so much luck. I need to get control of some financial and career issues but hard to do with this condition also.
casey37
casey37
Medications have not helped me a lot, and therapists probably needed. Financial/family/etc issues as as well as career challenges have increased the anxiety over the future and what it will be.
arfie
arfie
medications have not been very helpful in my own recovery, perhaps because i have little to no faith in them. i believe they only mask symptoms and enable still more denial of the underlying symptoms.

talk therapy and peer support, 12-step groups in particular, have provided my greatest relief.
casey37
casey37
yes good points you make arfie.
I have done some in the past but need to get to the right ones.
lighttheway
lighttheway
I also have not had luck with medication. I found cpt)( cognitive processing therapy) helpful.
It works in changing irrational thoughts to rational thoughts
casey37
casey37
Yes a better route indeed.
rmb
rmb
@timbartley, it’s not appropriate to post on different support groups trying promote your services and asking people to give you their phone number.

Seriously.
Sunshinegirl0228
Sunshinegirl0228
I rarely take meds for my anxiety at this point but I also have bipolar so the meds I take for it help with my anxiety.

I have such a jumpy work history due to how bad my anxiety has been in the past. It’s seeming to be a lot better I am even able to work part time!

We’ve just got to keep on keeping on :)
casey37
casey37
Yes Sunshinegirl0228 you are right.
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