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 posted this to my personal journal on another site. I just don't wanna type it out again:
So a while ago when i got anxiety attacks it would get so bad that my stomach would ache and cramp no matter what. So i decided not to eat for fear that it would make it worse, I would wake up with horrible anxiety and i would just spend my day laying around hoping i didnt succumb to the fear. I got better from that, I didnt feel like eating was going to make me scared anymore. I didnt feel like my stomach was going to hurt all the time i stopped drinking as much tea, i stopped laying around so much when everyone else was either watching movies or sleeping and i actually started to go back to what i used to do, somewhat. i used my dads computer, i used mine. id go over to my friends house. but last night something happened that might fuck that all up.
i got shit on, all over.. not literally. but a flood of hatred ruined my night and gave me a horrible anxiety attack. now that scared cramp feeling is back, and im scared because i dont remember how i dealt with it before...
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Help? i'm scared that i might relapse into that bad way where i'd do nothing all day except worry about anxiety and lay around and be too fearful to do anything.
So a while ago when i got anxiety attacks it would get so bad that my stomach would ache and cramp no matter what. So i decided not to eat for fear that it would make it worse, I would wake up with horrible anxiety and i would just spend my day laying around hoping i didnt succumb to the fear. I got better from that, I didnt feel like eating was going to make me scared anymore. I didnt feel like my stomach was going to hurt all the time i stopped drinking as much tea, i stopped laying around so much when everyone else was either watching movies or sleeping and i actually started to go back to what i used to do, somewhat. i used my dads computer, i used mine. id go over to my friends house. but last night something happened that might fuck that all up.
i got shit on, all over.. not literally. but a flood of hatred ruined my night and gave me a horrible anxiety attack. now that scared cramp feeling is back, and im scared because i dont remember how i dealt with it before...
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Help? i'm scared that i might relapse into that bad way where i'd do nothing all day except worry about anxiety and lay around and be too fearful to do anything.
The anxiety trap is you become fearful of your own reactions. Don't let this happen to you. If you have an anxious day, that's OK. Accept it and move on. Otherwise you create a nasty self-fulfilling prophecy for yourself.
Oh, eating doesn't cause attacks so enjoy!
If you were depressed you knowq that isolating yourself, just hibernating on the couch, dwelling only on the bad, not taking care of yourself is unhealthy and will keep you stuck in the depressiuon. You have to do something for yourself even if your mind and body do not want to. Same thing with anxiety. You kbow what stresses you out, but you also know what relaxes you and makes you feel good and happy. So do it even with a bit of anxiety. Do positive things for yourself: tae a deep celansing breath. Let the anxiety come into you feet and watch and feel it go out of your body right out of your head. You already know what to expect: the hot, sweaty, the cills, the racing heart and etc. Nothinbg new is going to happen. So jest let it happen and say oh ya that is the anxiety , I can feel it and know it cannot hurt me,. It may feel like shit for a moment or two than it is over. It will pass and I will just go on with my day. I know I can divert my attention. I can look up jokes because it is hard to laugh and be anxious.