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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Constantly a knot inside.

thesadcat
thesadcat

im constantly kicking myself on the inside for everything that I say out loud. Worried that someone is judging me. Like don’t get me wrong, I’m an outgoing person. But I’m such a horrible anxious mess on the inside 74% of the time. Always gritting my teeth as soon as something rolls off of my tongue. What can I do to help this constant feeling???

Community LeaderMid
Mid
Practice in front of the mirror. Make yourself have a conversation and feel the words flow. It's just a matter of readjusting your feelings to work with your words.

You can do this! Best wishes.
soulwarrior
soulwarrior
The first suggestion is good. In addition to it here are 3 more things you can do: breathing exercises, affirmations, and setting aside time(either in the morning or evening) to be with your Higher Power.
Example: Let's say you leave at 6:30 am than get up at 5:30 am and from 5:30-6:00 make that your time to be with your Higher Power.
Best of luck to you and lots of hugs
Hol13
Hol13
I do the same thing. When I start getting really anxious about what others think of me or what I said I get away from the conversation for a few minutes. I take deep breaths and I remind myself that first they probably didn't give what I said a second thought and that second the moment has already passed so beating the crap out of myself mentally is just self abuse at that point. I hope this helps! You sound like you have high functioning anxiety which can mean that others don't see your anxiety if you feel comfortable tell your closest friends about some things that trigger your anxiety and see if they will help you get past them by working out scenarios with you(:
thesadcat
thesadcat
My issue is I have no idea what triggers my anxiety, it can be a conversation about how my lunch was and I will freeze up all over on the inside because something I said didn’t sound quite right or I’m thinking maybe they took it the wrong way. Thank you so much though. Trying to get my words to flow with my feelings currently.
Sisabel
Sisabel
I do the exact same thing.
thesadcat
thesadcat
The hardest part is not being able to have a conversation that flows naturally with my own family, an easy conversation that should be so simple.
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