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...

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Found new and old things that are helping me...

lifeslikeajumprope
lifeslikeajumprope

5 months into treating my lastest round of anxiety/depression/panic attacks and things have gotten a lot better. Therapy and anti-depressants (they work wonders for my panic attacks long-term)! My favorite new therapy tool is writing 'thought diaries' to work through difficult thoughts and the feelings that come with them.


Still have a lot of existential dread about COVID, but I usually can just find some smaller issue that is bothering me and work my way down. I will start to get down/stressed and realize I just need to have dinner, haven't meditated today, haven't talked to someone that day, or am just worrying about something too much like work. Finding the little things to enjoy/work-on instead of being overwhelmed by the bigger unanswerable questions about COVID keeps me moving


Keep up the good work everyone! Reading everyone's post on here makes me hopeful that we can work through this togethor. 

arfie
arfie
Welcome back Lifesli. Glad to hear things have improved for you since April. The tools work if you work 'em and you are worth it.

Yea, those big, unsanswerable questions about the cultural instability of Coronaville really are beyond our control. Those little things that keep us moving through the isolation, noise and confusion are all we have to work with.

*****clink****

Here's to hoping we really can work through this together. Just hoping. . .
Community LeaderMid
Mid
Thrilled for you to find journal writing is helping and that you're finding your better balance!
hyperpgal
hyperpgal
I have a "crazy journal" where i put all my crazy worries before I go to bed sometimes--so that I don't carry it into my sleep. Last week my therapist asked me to write about how it feels when I am happy. I thought that was very clever--cause all week I've been asking myself--am I happy? is this happy? it put my focus on my happiness, rather than my misery--which does make a difference! (even though I haven't written anything---lol...I have 2 whole days left!)
mini2294
mini2294
That's so great that you've found tools that really help you. I've been finding that having small goals for myself really helps me too. Even if other things in my life make me feel out of control, I have those small goals that I do have control over. It brings up my self-esteem a bit to know that I'm getting better at something, like meditating for longer or being able to exercise for longer.
sammylamb
sammylamb
Yes! Thought diaries are so good! I also carry around a list of cognitive distortions so I can spot them in the thoughts in my thought diary. I find this helps me challenge negative thoughts or rewrite them in more balanced ways. Recently I've been using an app to do this as it saves me carrying around a pen all the time which is a bit annoying. It also has some cool reports which I show to my therapist sometimes. Might be worth trying it at ionamind.com. I've only used it for a few weeks but seems to work ok
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