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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I haven't written in my diary on my computer since May because I thought that my computer was dying. I got away from writing but my computer is hanging in there. I think that I will start writing in it again. It's so therapeutic.
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First, I hope everyone is doing well, and continuing to fight that good fight! Keep up the great work on yourselves; I'm rooting for all of you!So, I started doing therapy at the beginning of the year, when I was in my most depressed state, but with my therapist, I made big changes and steps in the right direction. But, over a month ago, she couldn't take my insurance anymore, and I had to stop...
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. . .