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...
Today was my work colleagues birthday. i thought it would be nice to get her a card, we dont usually bother getting each other anything but she had been talking about it so i thought i would be nice. however as usual when i try to do something nice i tie myelf in knots. For example i bought the card and then a wee plant. Then i worried that this was not enough but then i was worried that it woudl make her feel akward when it is my birthday... so i got her a small jokey ornament and gave her them in a nice bag with a nice card. however now i am worried that she will think i am mean as i didnt spend a lot of money . she did cry when i gave her the bag but i am worried she woudl be disappointed when she saw how little was in it.
this has bothered me all day. tonight she text to say thanks and then i get stressed as i dont seem to know when to end the text string if you know what i mean. i suppose at some level i feel that she wont really want to talk to me so i try to stop the conversation as quick as possible. i just over think everything, i wish i could stop it. does anyone else know what i mean ?
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I have a possible new diagnosis to discuss with my therapist tomorrow. It might be the answer to a question that I have had since I was 19. It's called Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria (RSD). It happens to a large percentage of people with ADHD, which I have. Actually, I have been watching videos about ADD/ADHD lately. I remember my Mom telling me that she watched a show on ADD and she...
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And I hope everyone is having a nice weekend.We're going to the Squatch Fest! (Bigfoot)
Now. You did a good deed. Appreciate you did it, and recognize that she said thank you. Every time you have the thoughts that go..., rewind back to the specific and use that to break the pattern of thought to where it is back in normal range.
Best wishes.
Am I giving away my age to say I remember when such gentle gestures were both easy and appreciated by most. Even the folks who didnae appreciate the gesture could get a spot of humor out of their bah humbugs. That was many political corrections and law suits ago. . . I still miss friendly courtesy more than I have politically correct words to say, but. . .
Breathing with you, Cotton Tail. . . Over-thinking things is in definitely bad for the health, both mental and physical. The world is as the world is. Not as we would have it.