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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Asuncion86
Asuncion86

It's a good thing to have this outlet/community to get support for facing life. I'm currently working at a front desk job and it's not too stressful. But just being around other people makes me tense and anxious. I notice that I'm okay when I'm by myself but once I get around others, I start to feel my stomach tighten and my gait change. I don't know what I'm supposed to do because all I want is to be able to be confident. This anxiety robs me of my confidence. Or maybe it's the other way around: my lack of confidence makes me anxious. I'm going to join martial arts and hope that helps. I'm also waiting on my next appointment with the counselor but it seems that that won't be until September. In the meantime I guess I have to keep struggling. Don't know what else to do.

Community LeaderMid
Mid
Practice confidence appearance while at the front desk. Look for five things that you use on a regular basis during your normal work duties. Use those five things as an image board to help you see the confidence in using those tools for your work.

You have confidence in your writing! So practice that same confidence with your voice.

You can do this!
Asuncion86
Asuncion86
Mid I’m not sure what you mean by using the objects as an image board…
mtd
mtd
I think the lack of confidence came first. I know it did in me. Anxiety is like a bully that keeps beating us up because we withdraw from the thought of the pain and fear that it can inflict, lacking confidence in ourselves to stand up to the bully and allow it to dominate us. I have to say though that now that i am learning how to stand up to the bully, it no longer poses such a threat. I am getting there with therapy, meditation, acceptance and tools I have learned to incorporate in my everyday thought process. I am learning that I don’t have to be afraid anymore. It’s liberating, refreshing, and most of all my confidence is rising. One of the best things I can tell you is that you are just as good as anyone else, no better, but just as good. Maybe you could try to incorporate that thought, which is a TRUTH (even if you don’t feel it right now), into your everyday routine, every time you have to make contact with a person, say it to yourself. And one more thing, people aren’t usually difficult to deal with if you meet them halfway, listen to what they have to say with your heart as well as your ears. Yes, there are those out there who will be difficult, that’s a fact, but think about what makes them difficult. Perhaps they have unhealthy thought processes that cause their difficulty. We are only human and not perfect. We can only try our best. Best wishes.
arfie
arfie
Growing my awareness of when and where my anxiety is at play is quite allot to do in my anxiety management. Self-confidence and trust are far from the only place anxiety wreaks havoc in my life. Awareness of when my anxiety is at play helps me sort my character from my illness. Ply therapy tools here, starting with compassion for my current condition.

Anxiety is an all-natural and highly useful part of my survival instinct, but the barky beast sure do have allot of opinions of stuff that has nothing to do with survival. Those opines can be downright dangerous.
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