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 honestly don’t know which group to even put this in, there doesn’t seem to be a group for “General Life Problems”
Just when I think things are on the up, and like I’m starting to feel in control of my life again, BAM something else comes along to whip the rug out from under me
My partner has just lost his job for the second time in 2018 (the first one, ok, kind of hi so fault; but this second one has really come out of the blue)
Will I ever feel like we’re not sinking, while everyone around us is doing great?
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Jay's podcasts are really good. I watch them on YouTube for free. Today, I watched his video about motivation. In fact, I've been watching a few videos on this subject. Jay gave us an assignment to complete the following sentence: I am stuck because? I don't describe myself as stuck, but to finish the sentence, I would say that I am stuck because I am tired. When I have energy, I do...
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Does anyone here have a comfort item you carry with you when you go out? For example this is my doll, Annie, and I've recently been bringing her with me when I run errrands flor have an appointment. Holding her comforts me. I've bought her clothes, crocheted for her, I recently bought a personalized blanket with her name on it. Just wondering if anyone else has a comfort item.
Given how deeply my mental health issues are affected by those general life problems, I believe those general life problems fit on any and all of the boards.
"Will I ever feel like we’re not sinking, while everyone around us is doing great?"
In my personal herstory, that phenom of getting the rug whipped out from under me seems to be a constant. Thank the cosmos for a well-equipped psychotherapy tool box on that one.
One of the tools in my box is, "Don't compare my insides to other people's outsides." That sense that everyone else is doing better than I am sure feeds my low self-esteem and the anxieties attached. From sufficient distance, I look like I'm doing great, too.
You’re absolutely right, comparing ourselves to others is a completely pointless exercise as you never really know what is going on in someone else’s life.
As quite an anxious person myself, I hate the feeling of not knowing what the future holds! These things often have a way of working themselves out if we’re patient - that is until the next big surprise comes along!
The anticipation is kinda nummy when I let it be okay that I don't know what the future may or may not hold.
But then. . . I'm a multiply certified nutjob, too. . .