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...
my social anxiety is paralyzing me on the score of establishing a social network in the new life which was haphazardly thrown together in the domestic cataclysms 3 years ago and covidically isolated for most of the time since. the needs of my 3 orphans have kept me circulating within the new community, but i have had zero connection for my strictly personal social and therapy needs. opportunities are starting to present, but i am finding fatal flaws in each and every one of those opportunities. keep your mask on, socially distant one. thanks, but no thanks.
this morning finds me pulling a tool i haven't used in a while. i call it, "the finger pointing meditation." when i point a finger at someone else, there are 3 fingers pointing back at me. in this exercise, i vizualize the person i am rejecting in a chair in front of me. sometimes i use a photograph to aid with the vizualization. i then point my hoary finger of blame at the person and let the blame rip. you are just. . . you should never. . . how dare you. . . yaddah yaddah through the blah de blah. . . allowing myself to get brutal in the blame gaming helps me focus the issues.
i then lift my hoary finger of blame to focus on the three fingers pointing back at me. there is where i find the solutions.
am i making sense? thoughts?
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Hey All...I hope that you have a lovely, peaceful beginning of your weekI have a bunch of chores that need doing but may put them off til tomorrow and just hang out with my landlord/roomie todayWhat about you?...Anything special going on?Have a great day and take good care of you!!..Xo
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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.
hm-m-m-m. . . that is a tasty chew, mark. thank you. a big part of my own psychotherapy has been learning the diff between boundaries and walls. i tend to mistake inflexible, heavily fortified walls for boundaries. boundaries are flexible and can change with the circumstances.
could holding onto the anxiety like a boundary be a form of radical acceptance?
chew, chew. . .
This type of sharing provides me with a better perspective of how to read words with acceptance that I might not have the tone and meaning anywhere near what the words are saying.
may the force be with you chew-bacca.