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...
But I'm not high. I've posted about this and someone said it's derealization here, but COME ON... How do I make it go away? I need to DO things and It's been hours now that I am in a haze. I am so physically slow, and I just can't get wired/feel the urgency that I would normally feel that would motivate me to do the things I need to do.
I've tried to do the things I need to do but I have been so, so slow. And I just can't get any sense of urgency going inside of me.... It's been going on since 1 or 2 p.m. I literally feel strung out. I've had 4 cups of coffee since to "get me going" and I feel absolutely nothing. Normally I might feel jittery with that amount of coffee. But nothing now....
I am trying to study btw, and do some school related things (emailing profs!) which I normally only do drunk. The thing is I am out of alcohol, and I had surgery last week that prevents me from leaving the house, so I can't go buy more). I felt so proud that I toughened up and started doing my shit and then this happened.
It's the first time that it bothers me.... I need to make it go away. What do you do about this?
I've tried to do the things I need to do but I have been so, so slow. And I just can't get any sense of urgency going inside of me.... It's been going on since 1 or 2 p.m. I literally feel strung out. I've had 4 cups of coffee since to "get me going" and I feel absolutely nothing. Normally I might feel jittery with that amount of coffee. But nothing now....
I am trying to study btw, and do some school related things (emailing profs!) which I normally only do drunk. The thing is I am out of alcohol, and I had surgery last week that prevents me from leaving the house, so I can't go buy more). I felt so proud that I toughened up and started doing my shit and then this happened.
It's the first time that it bothers me.... I need to make it go away. What do you do about this?
1). Look around the room and touch as many things as you can and name them. The more texture you touch the better you will be. This brings you back into the room.
2). Stand with your feet flat on the floor. Imagine roots growing out from the bottom of your feet and calves and going down to the core of the earth. Picture the roots wrapping around the core of the earth and pulling you down so you feel firmly attached to the earth. This grounding technique will round your soul body or astral body and can help to eliminate that floaty feeling.
I hope these work for you and that you can shake this feeling very soon.
Take care
you've also just been through the physical trauma of surgery - that for me can be very ungrounding, plus you're trying to do some things without alcohol that you're used to doing with it. all new stuff?
good for you btw for getting into your stuff. sorry you're going through this - hope it's better today.
I didn't feel "ungrounded" per se. I think I've felt that way more when I actually feel anxiety and panic (during exams or while driving). But the above state, which I have experienced several times, usually at home, and usually (though not this last time) without any sort of precursor/indication of why.
I didn't feel nervous at all. I just got really slow and I couldn't snap out of it until 1-2 a.m. when it felt like a fog literally "lifted" away. It only bothered me this time because it's just so annoying and I had things to do. It has happened before when I didn't have anything "urgent" to do so it was just sort of really funny that I was so slow w/ thinking and moving