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...
So my daughter has just told me she suffers the same over whelming fears and anxiety and panic as I do.
Im so sad she will have to deal with this like I have. She's 13.
She describes the feelings of not being able to face anyone, or answer the door somedays, like me. And the anxiety. She is just starting a new school and is overcome with it right now, but generally it makes a lot of sense about how she is.
How can I help her.?!
I have just found the books by Dr. Claire Weekes
Any other ideas of what i can do.?
Im so sad she will have to deal with this like I have. She's 13.
She describes the feelings of not being able to face anyone, or answer the door somedays, like me. And the anxiety. She is just starting a new school and is overcome with it right now, but generally it makes a lot of sense about how she is.
How can I help her.?!
I have just found the books by Dr. Claire Weekes
Any other ideas of what i can do.?
Yes we can access therapy through school and college here ( from age 16 ) My eldest daughter has been having counselling for two years at college. Its been really good for her. she's off to Uni soon. I think it should be compulsory for everyone to have some form of therapy in the school environment. It would be good, don't you think?!
Make it more acceptable. There is, of course, a stigma attached to it especially within school.
But at the moment we are working through the book and talking, it is a start and I hope I can help her.
The way I cope with my own anxiety is just to keep busy. I spent loads of money on TheLinden Method just to be told the same thing, makes me really cross that does!!! My answer is to keep busty and distract yourself if anxiety is coming to get you! One of the books I read said that instead of imagining your anxiety like some big marauding Tiger but instead think of it as a fluffy bunny.that made me laugh and it helps too!