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 all-I have been doing good with my anxiety lately but the last few days it has been getting the best of me. Why does this have to keep coming back. I don't understand why it has to keep coming back when I am doing so well. Once the anxiety comes back so does the hypochondria and it becomes a vicious cycle. I have been able to stop all my meds, but think that I might have to start taking my xanax again for temporary relief. I was really hoping to stay off of it but at this time do not think that it will be possible.
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grill tonight with charcoal.....turned out good but had some stuff that I had to feed to Belle and Happy because it was grissley. it tasted pretty good and was a perfect mid rare....
guess it's like the saying, "what we focus our attention on gets stronger". I just try to breathe through the attacks, and think positive thoughts. Go over all the wonderful blessings and gratitude list. Like changing the channel on my body and mind. telling myself that the "fear" and "anxiety" are just lying to me, and I won't listen. I've been off meds for many years. I know that the prozac caused years of insomnia, which I still suffer from. I don't know why some of us are given this challege of fighting anxiety and fear, but it does get less powerful, as we learn how to tell it to "shut up, and go away". we take the power out of it. It used to be so bad I couldn't leave my house for a week, not even to check the mail.
Now, it still tries to come and attack me. I've had that "antsy feeling" of uneasy-ness all day today, but I'm just doing what I normally do, don't give it much thought or attention. I know the physical symptoms will go away, and I know I am fine.
I hope some of this helps you through this. It's my experience, I hope it's helpful.