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...
I've had anxiety problems pretty much my whole life but it's never interfered with my life the way it does now.
I feel like there's NOTHING i can do to prevent it or to help it. Some days, everything is basically okay and i'm able to stay in control. But some days it'll just be awful. I'll wake up one morning feeling great, and then about half an hour later i'll feel it coming and it only gets worse from there. I don't want to leave the house, i can't talk to people, i can't hang out with friends, etc. When i go and do things anyway, it doesn't help. It's as if circumstances have absolutely no effect on it at all. If anything, things can only make it worse.
I actually signed up for this website because i wanted to be connected to other people with anxiety issues. I want to know how you guys help yourselves when you start getting really anxious. It just really sucks when i'm stuck in a horrible, miserable, anxious mindset for days.
I feel like there's NOTHING i can do to prevent it or to help it. Some days, everything is basically okay and i'm able to stay in control. But some days it'll just be awful. I'll wake up one morning feeling great, and then about half an hour later i'll feel it coming and it only gets worse from there. I don't want to leave the house, i can't talk to people, i can't hang out with friends, etc. When i go and do things anyway, it doesn't help. It's as if circumstances have absolutely no effect on it at all. If anything, things can only make it worse.
I actually signed up for this website because i wanted to be connected to other people with anxiety issues. I want to know how you guys help yourselves when you start getting really anxious. It just really sucks when i'm stuck in a horrible, miserable, anxious mindset for days.
-Friend a poster on here by the name of AdventureGuide. She did a 12 week series of different things you can do to help relieve your anxiety. When you friend her you will be able to see all 12 weeks in her journal.
-Here is a good website to help you understand anxiety www.anxietycoach.com
-Avoiding activities is actually what makes your anxiety worse. The first, and most scary, rule with anxiety is to face everything you are afraid of. If you are afraid to leave the house, for example, you would concentrate on going outside your house in small steps. First it would be just stepping outside the door. When that becomes easy to do you would increase it to a point where you are anxious again and do that daily until it becomes easy..and so on and so forth. This is called Exposure Therapy and should be done very slowly and with one scary situation at a time.
Some things you can do when an anxiety attack hits:
--Distraction: watch tv; clean the house; go for a walk while listening to music
--Meditation
--Have a good cry. So often our anxiety is triggered by repressing feelings so let your feelings out. Any feelings. Just make sure to let them out in a safe place and in a way that you do not hurt yourself or anyone else.
I hope this gives you a good start in coping with your anxiety. I have found that coping with it was not enough for me so I found therapy very helpful in finding the root cause of my anxiety (childhood sexual abuse) and as I have healed that my anxiety has all but disappeared.
Take care