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...
it’s been almost 3 months since I posted last. My last post was about taking that next step to start concoring one of my biggest fears (driving) I’m 24 and I got my driving permit sometime in the summer and I never set my test date for the driving portion. I just never had the confidence to do it. Finally after months of driving back in November I set my test date for February 7th. Now as this date is slowly approaching I’m losing all the confidence I thought I had. My anixity has been running full range of this fear of driving for the most part of my teens through adult years. I can feel the anixity slowly starting to bubble back up. I’m trying to remind myself that I can do this and I am ready, but am I can I really be able to do this? I’ve been going back and forth about this for weeks now. I don’t want my anixity and fears to win again for once I’d like to say “remember that one time I was really scared to do something and I did it even tho I was terrified?....” if I back out of this now I’ll never get the will power to do it again. I don’t think I have it in me. The fear has been a part of my everyday life for years it’s how I lived. It was always on my brain (the lack of a drivers license) I always compared myself to others and think bad of myself for not having one. Now, I can almost touch it, but I’m getting scared now...is that normal?
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I haven't written in my diary on my computer since May because I thought that my computer was dying. I got away from writing but my computer is hanging in there. I think that I will start writing in it again. It's so therapeutic.
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First, I hope everyone is doing well, and continuing to fight that good fight! Keep up the great work on yourselves; I'm rooting for all of you!So, I started doing therapy at the beginning of the year, when I was in my most depressed state, but with my therapist, I made big changes and steps in the right direction. But, over a month ago, she couldn't take my insurance anymore, and I had to stop...
Finally, her husband and I collaborated on a conspiracy to block her from still more cramming before the test. Her husband arranged a spectacular breakfast and special pampering from her favorite hairdresser for the morning of the test.
Bingo. . . Many years later, her insurance company loves her. She is the safest driver either her husband and I have ever ridden with. She drove illegally for enough years that being extra careful was her most ingrained driving habit.
Keep venting, HML. For sure, holding ^it^ in doesn't help. There's nothing freaky about test anxiety.
Study as hard as you can, prepare yourself, then just show up. If you don't pass it the first time there will always be other times. Do you have a favorite prayer or mantra that gives you peace? Ask someone to go with you when you go to take it, someone who will let you talk and encourage you. You've got this!