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'm doing that thing today where I'm creating ENORMOUS problems in my head that don't actually exist yet and it's ruining my day!!! I hate getting lost in thought.
Example, I have been waiting to hear about this job. It's been dragging on for weeks. I got a text from the hiring manager earlier this morning asking if we can talk later today. I am sitting here resisting the urge to drive myself nuts with the worst case possible outcome ("they're going to tell me I didn't get it."). But instead need to focus on the conversation we had a couple weeks ago when they said they definitely want to bring me on. I have to go back to that clearly, factually positive thing, and use it to reframe the anxiety I have today about talking to them this afternoon. It's a lot easier said than done (I'm maybe being about 50% successful with this technique right now). But it's better than wallowing in the negativity for me.
I wish you the best.