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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GhostlyLydia
GhostlyLydia

A scary form of anxiety that is also OCD??? I won't share details in the open because I have scared someone away before, but I just want to know I'm not alone here...

Diane22
Diane22
Please explain
Linakavika
Linakavika
I am the same way
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Common in pattern of thought, pattern of behavior...yes, normal with anxiety, because something might have worked successfully one time, we may continue to use this method even when it no longer works.
Take the time writing out and look for how the pattern works, and make different choices to see what might happen.
Best wishes.
GhostlyLydia
GhostlyLydia
Diane22, if I explained it might scare a few people. The condition is nicknamed "Obsessive Compulsive Destructive Thought Disorder" and that is about as far as I can go on explaining it. It behaves like OCD in the fact that it keeps pestering and distracting you, but it is also a form of anxiety because it pesters you by making you have deeply traumatizing and terrifying thoughts.
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