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...
Well I made it through it’s 4 PM here Los Angeles so far I finished my task with my daughter at the DMV she passed and got her written permit that was an anxiety that’s been eating me up for three days also this morning before the DMV what if what if and so on and so on Thoughts i’ve been writing out everything like you all have teach me right now I feel kind of like numb I guess like I want to be worried and I’m not like it’s lurking in the back of my brain weird stuff So it actually got me angry that I solve the problem without worrying but I didn’t call upon it it just came over me any tips on this if anybody has experienced it Hope I’m making sense
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When i was in the ER February 16th 2025, i was being admitted to ICU where i was for 3 weeks, then had to relearn to walk for 3 weeks in another hospital rehab floor, the nurse told me something that made me feel for over 18 months now that i was finally *safe*. She told me that the guy who raped and beat me 21 years ago now almost 20 years at that time, was in prison as of a month before that...
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Sometimes, I think I have ODD. I can be oppositional. It seems that the only times that I feel like cleaning are when I should be doing something else or I have to go somewhere. Well, not everytime but most of the time. Yesterday, I was supposed to be doing online training for work but instead, I decided to work on my kitchen table. Most of the time, I don't know where to start and give...
Hurrah on the success of the written permit experience.
You're doing a great job at getting the feelings expressed in a safe way!
I remember that numb feel from when I first started learning how to quiet my anxiety attacks. All that internal quiet gave me a panic attack. I worried I'd had a stroke or something.
I coped with gentle, compassionate humor. As Ethyl Barrymore said, "We take steps toward maturity every time we have a good belly laugh -- at ourselves." Be patient with the process. You might be surprised at what lives beneath that numbness.