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...
while I’m not sure any of this will work for me or anyone else I find that having a lot of options calms me down. I wrote down everything that I could think of and anything that I could find online about handling anxiety and depression. I have a list of about a dozen different things from excercise to writing a journal. This way when something gets me anxious or gets me down I have some tool in place already and sometimes just that is enough to snap me out of it. Maybe I’m not as afflicted as others by these and I still suffer from them, but I know the only choice I have is to fight through it. With or without medication there are people out there that have overcome anxiety and depression so I believe others can do it too and so should all of you.
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I have a possible new diagnosis to discuss with my therapist tomorrow. It might be the answer to a question that I have had since I was 19. It's called Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria (RSD). It happens to a large percentage of people with ADHD, which I have. Actually, I have been watching videos about ADD/ADHD lately. I remember my Mom telling me that she watched a show on ADD and she...
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Hello- I am new to the group
As I read the rest of the post, I realized you are speaking of what I call, "My Therapy Toolbox." That metaphorical box where I store the psych tools I use to prevent that and many other anxiety related symptoms. I still suffer allot of anxiety, etc., but the tools help manage ^it^ well enough to get through my days without undue suffering.