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've suffered from panic attacks for as long as I can remember. Most of my panic attacks begin when I hyperfixate on something in my life potentially going wrong. I drop dead tomorrow. I lose my job. My wife leaves me. I have a health crisis.
I've also noticed that some of the things I hyperfixate on are extremely unlikely. When I was 27, I asked my doctor if I had prostate cancer. He told me if I did, I'd be in the Guinness Book of World Records for youngest case of Prostate Cancer.
The worst part is when I hyperfixate on these ridiculous things, I can't get my brain to stop. My brain just automatically goes to the worst case scenario.
so, my question is... what tools do you use to stop your brain from hyperfixating that's spins into full blown panic attacks?
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Now that I am not talking to my whatever best friend, I realized that her life is full of drama. I had grown tired of hearing her stories about her boyfriend many months ago. She basically had been monopolizing conversations for that long too. She pretty much stopped asking me questions about me. I passed her in front of her classroom the other day and didn't even look at her. I am...
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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...
in my own case, i believe two symptoms are at play in this wicked scenario. "hyper" and "repression." i have a hyper-active metabolism so hyper anything is an on-going, daily challenge. it's a physical condition with many psychotic side effects. i manage that can of worms on the physical end. diet, hydration, etc.
the repression end of these fixations is emotional. anger and grief are the two emotional sets i tend to repress most. reading the list you posted here had me wondering if you need to let yourself cry. just wondering. . . maybe projecting. . . i'd far rather ride a rodeo bull that let myself cry, but i've come to think of tears as a shower for the soul. i needs me a shower after riding that bull.
but that is me and every case is unique.
steadying support while you sort your own case, erod.
I also am big on practicing positive mantras; they help not only to distract me but also disrupt the ongoing anxious thought patterns.