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...
Hello ive literally just joined this site so please bare with me cause im not quite sure what i am doing lol. I came on here because i have depression anxiety and also Aspergers. I find it all very difficult to cope with on a daily basis. At the moment my anxiety is hitting the roof its been the worse its ever been. Ive just started my CBT cognotive therepy but nothing has helped me as of yet. I just want to know what are peoples coping stratergies when you are having a panic attack/anxiety? Ive tried so many things and nothing seems to work. I sweat, shake, my heart races and then it gets that bad it affects my bowels which doesnt help as i have IBS. So yeah im just wondering if anyone can help me with some of their coping stratergies please. Thank you :) xx
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Hello- I am new to the group
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My therapist really knocked some sense into me last Friday about my spending. She said that there are needs and there are wants. She said that there is always going to be cheap stuff to buy, but do I need it? The answer is mostly "no". So today, I am taking back some things that I bought online at Kohl's, namely a 9 x 12 rug and a quilt for my bed. I also bought sheets that I don't need...
Getting out of the situation helped me. Washing my face helped me. Cold water, shifted me from where I was.
Crying helped. I think there are chemicals in your tears that it helps to get rid of.
Getting through the time was very important, and also understanding that when I'm inside an attack what I think is real is very seldom real at all. So don't do anything about it!
If there is someone at your work who understands aspergers, they might be able to be a helper for you when things go bad. I used to look after a guy with aspergers at the last place I worked, because whenever he was told off he thought it was very real, when it was often maybe about 5% of what he thought it was. He would be very upset and he didn't always know if people were angry with him so I had to help him identify what people meant.
He tried so hard to be perfect; but nobody can be perfect. Also someone had done a number on his ego. He was so worth having around. He saved us thousands of dollars just because of his way of thinking. He had ideas the rest of us didn't have. He asked questions the rest of us didn't ask. He was incredibly worth having around, but often thought we thought he was less than ideal because of the things he wasn't good at.
I used to tell him to ignore the stuff he wasn't good at, anybody can do that. But not anybody could do what he did, that was for sure.