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...
Hello all, I have had two dizzy spells today and I'm freaking out a bit. It really triggered my anxiety. I am pretty clear on why - I tried to go vegan. I started about 10 days ago and made sure to get plenty of protein but apparently, not enough. My body has a hard time absorbing protein anyway and this did not help.
That said, I had a couple of very mild spells over the past week or so and then today got hit with two that, had I been standing I would have fallen over. Both happened when I was laying down - one while exercising, one while meditating.
So I'm back on meat and hopefully it will resolve in the next few days. Hoping it won't get worse before it gets better.
For now, I could just use some words of comfort and hugs. I get freaked out because I worry about it lasting and me winding up unable to care for myself. I keep telling myself it's only happened once before in my entire life when I had chronic fatigue for a few months.
HATE the idea of being a burden to anyone. And worried that if I am I won't be able to find the help I need.
That said, I had a couple of very mild spells over the past week or so and then today got hit with two that, had I been standing I would have fallen over. Both happened when I was laying down - one while exercising, one while meditating.
So I'm back on meat and hopefully it will resolve in the next few days. Hoping it won't get worse before it gets better.
For now, I could just use some words of comfort and hugs. I get freaked out because I worry about it lasting and me winding up unable to care for myself. I keep telling myself it's only happened once before in my entire life when I had chronic fatigue for a few months.
HATE the idea of being a burden to anyone. And worried that if I am I won't be able to find the help I need.
With drastic diet changes it is very possible that your system reacted.
Oddly, this is a very familiar worry: not being able to take care of yourself. Because we are all afraid that anxiety may control our lives and then we will not be able to take care of ourselves as we should.
Odd though, because if I think about it: are we kidding ourselves here?
There are so many factors in life that can strip us completely of the control we have over our own lives. Accidents, environmental changes, financial changes, health changes.
Do we expect too much of ourselves when we always push for this?
Just wondering
Most of the help I need is so simple - someone to call and check in on me, to run to the grocery, to be kind. And I'm lucky that I have that now. But I get anxious thinking if I didn't have these friends what would happen?
Isn't it funny how we tend to handle real issues with great skill and ease but freak out about things that probably will never even happen?
Sometimes it helps to laugh at myself and my silliness.