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'm pretty sure this comes along with generalized anxiety disorder, and I wanted to see if any of you guys put up with it as well.
Often I'll just be relaxing, letting my wonder, and I'll have a very disturbing/upsetting thought come out of nowhere. It's usually a loved one of mine getting killed or something morbid. These always throw me into an anxiety attack or I end up crying uncontrollably. They are very traumatizing, they haunt me all day, and even though I take Zoloft to help with panic attacks, they don't help keep the intrusive thoughts away.
Any ways to prevent these? Do any of you guys have this problem? How do you get over them?
Often I'll just be relaxing, letting my wonder, and I'll have a very disturbing/upsetting thought come out of nowhere. It's usually a loved one of mine getting killed or something morbid. These always throw me into an anxiety attack or I end up crying uncontrollably. They are very traumatizing, they haunt me all day, and even though I take Zoloft to help with panic attacks, they don't help keep the intrusive thoughts away.
Any ways to prevent these? Do any of you guys have this problem? How do you get over them?
Fast forward to more recent times. Two years ago I nearly took my life due to the Bipolar and also 7 years of terrible mis-prescription by psychiatrists. After I came out of the coma I was transferred to a psych hospital and after that stay they recommended me for a 10 week one evening a week course on the ACT and Mindfulness therapy methodology. I hadn't heard of it before.
It turns out it is a therapetic model taking in the best of Eastern Philosophy and the best of western medicine. The text that they used and which I have read through and worked on many times since is The Happiness Trap by Russ Harris - an Australian - I am an Aussie. You can get it from Amazon. For the first time in my life, I have found some anxiety management strategies which I could understand and which I can use successfully. The strategies in the book don't work if I have plunged into a panic attack - I have to just ride panic attacks out. But amazingly, they really DO help with intrusive thoughts. I'd give it a go, it's worked for me and I am an anxiety machine!! LOL
once we are prepared for various things, our minds don't throw those kinds of images at us anymore.
I haven't figured out a way to stop it, I just keep myself distracted with something... it's hard I know. Doens't always work...
Sorry I don't have too much advice.
Hope you feel better...
HUGS