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...
Hi everyone, back again...
I've now been on sertraline four months which feels like nothing, what with all that's happened in the world. Thank god my January attack hasn't happened again but I basically feel like I did last autumn, which is, well, pretty bad. I need to work on reducing the adrenaline in my body, and also stop avoiding thinking about my anxiety/ trying to work through them because avoidance clearly isn't working anyway, and that's the only way out I can see.
I need to reclaim who I was: I have stopped writing, stopped listening to music, I feel like I've been punched out of my body and am nowhere near myself. This is mostly to do with my newfound technophobia that I wouldn't know where to begin with even if I wanted to. These fays that means feeling near constantly traumatised.
I am doing my best to not think that my life has ended, at 21 no less, and nothing from here will be any better than it has been. I absolutely do not want to get therapy about my current stuff so it falls to me to heal myself, which is daunting.
Anyway I came back to DS because everyone is always so supportive and that's what I, and we all, need, especially right now.
So my question is: how are all of you doing? And how on earth do you come back from a nervous breakdown?
Thank you and best wishes to you all.
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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...
I think you have a lot of life left to live at 21. I'm 52, and I can tell you that I was a different person from who I was at 21. I have been very different persons at various times during my life. So please do not despair and think your life is over at 21.
Don't run from your anxiety. You can't outrun it, and you will never grow until you face that demon. I am working through my anxiety and shame of my PTSD event, and you can't get out of facing it. My therapist is forcing me to do that now. It ain't pretty.
Talk with your therapist on what you want, the two of you to work and in what order.
Best of luck. You are a long road, but that road does not lead to death but life. You will be different as a person because of this experience. Trust in the process.
don't give up hope. Ditto what Thor said, you've got a long time in front of you. I felt like I was in the pit of despair at 21 also. But I never gave up hope even though things in my life were horrible in my 20's and got progressively worse as my 20's wore on.
Work with your therapist. If you don't feel as though you are benefiting, do some research online. Look up CBT, look up exposure therapy. There are tons of online resources out there. There's the anxiety guys, there's lots of content on YouTube that is highly uplifting.
As I said, I was at a low point in my life in my 20's and a lot of times I thought that if the mental prison I had created for myself was all there was, then maybe I'd be better off dead.
But thankfully I worked through what my therapist had taught me on my own and I came to make small improvements by reprogramming my thought process and facing my fears.
Keep sharing and we're hear lending a kind ear.
Keep stepping, Blueflower. You are not alone.
Get back into writing. In a private journal. This will help you release your thoughts as you sort through all the feelings, sensations, and the process will help you focus on "now".
Anxiety is natural. Anxiety is a part of us. You are stronger than it.
Best wishes.