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Integrity with anxiety

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How do we treat anxiety with integrity? 


A) Do we admit that anxiety affects how we think (over-think) a moment, a situation, a conversation, a choice?


B) Do we hide how we have anxiety in expressing our physical symptoms to be treated medically?



arfie
arfie
for my psycho nickel, hiding my anxiety gives it free reign to haunt me, unimpeded. if i can't see it, i can't stop it. i don't share my problems with every passerby, but full disclosure with people i trust is a powerful anxiety management tool.
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Thank you, Arfie. I'm still trying to work out this one, and what you share really helped me to see that 'trust' is a huge factor in the current dilemma I'm not handling very well.
arfie
arfie
i have wondered if trust is the number one cause of my anxiety. anything i can't fully trust makes me antsy and hyper vigilant. it helps me considerable to take trust in degrees. i don't have to have absolute trust in my hub-a-lub to keep him in my life. i can trust him to be absolutely human, i can trust him some days. not so much on other days. i can trust him for this. not so much for that. in the balance, he remains a worthy partner.

when i take trust in degrees, i can take the anxiety as a warning for the case at hand, the way nature intended. no need to ship people off to the toxic people landfill. this, too, shall pass. easy does it.
BlueSky
BlueSky
When I am anxious, I always question my judgment/ sanity. I always try to do a fact check or reality check against my anxiety. Has the thing I am fearing ever happened before? Is there any evidence that what I am fearing WILL happen? If I struggle with the answers, I usually tell someone and ask them if I am crazy. Lol
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Arfie, exactly how I feel. I'm working to release my feelings over the whole mess, and recognizing that the intelligent folks here on DS can really give me an insight and perspective that makes sense without judging the mixed up parts.

BlueSky, Those same questions are what keep throwing me into a see-saw frenzy when it feels mixed up.
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