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...
Hi there. I'm not new to DS. I've been on the site for quite a few years. I've been spending most of my time in the PTSD forum but haven't been feeling like I belong there in recent months. I am a child sex trafficking survivor (intense case) and have been in therapy since 1972. As my recovery has progressed, shifts in my healing needs have been a part of the progress. I shift my therapy program accordingly with sincere gratitude to the brothers and sisters-in-healing who have supported my progress. Nothing wrong with the group I am leaving. Progress is the goal of therapy.
Anyhoo. . . Around 2k, my therapists felt I had healed far enough that I no longer needed formal therapy, but cautioned that I would never be "Cured." I would probably need to take my therapy maintenance for life and peer support is a critical part of that maintenance. PTSD (my formal diagnosis) is an anxiety order. My current thought is that participating in this forum could be a good shift for me. I've been lurking for quite a while and. . .
Thoughts, reality checks and group consensus welcome.
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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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Years ago, I won a mirrored armoire from my job. It's in my bedroom but I rarely stand in front of it. Yesterday, I had to have a dexascan done so I had to change into a gown. There was a full length mirror in the changing room. I'm aware that I gained 5 to 7 pounds over the last year from cheating on Keto but I didn't know what it looked like. It was a reality check.
More like a parade of therapists spread out over 3 continents and 3 decades. There is nothing easy or justy about recovery.
As valuable as the formal therapy was/is, I still believe the peer support network was/is the heart and soul of my recovery and maintenance. I tend to treat my therapists like reference books. Valuable information, but nothing personal and they never leave the library. Professional detachment has its merits, but. . . It's nothing personal.
On the peer support network, united we heal. One for all and all for one.
I am a solid believer that it takes a village to live a healthy life. Variety in our therapy diet is as important as variety in every other aspect of our lives. Should I add an "especially for psychosis sufferers"? I know my own isolating tendencies tend to create tight little grooves which I keep on grooving in, even when they are uncomfortable for me. I gots to push myself to keep life interesting. Rigid routine may be limiting, but it's predictable.
Did you hear my heart breaking? You've given up on yourself? Triple howl yeowl!! No puede ser!!
Still. . . There's been more one time in my own recovery road where "giving up on myself" turned out to mean I was letting go of some of my meaner dysfunctions and the assumptions behind them. Ditto for when I feel out of step with a group consensus. Quite the opposite of something wrong. *Just* evolution in progress. The funny thing about evolution is that the details behind the evolution can be obscure and microscopic. Trying to analyze what, where and why of the evolution is somewhere between impossible and pointless. It is enough to appreciate that the change has happened and *just* appreciate the show.
Thank you, Mid. In my personal therapy needs, I feel better when I focus on the healing tools and balance more than the problem, itself.